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Leadership HR Employment Law


Cultivate HR Consulting helps HR professionals and people leaders build the knowledge, judgment, and confidence to make better workplace decisions.

I spent more than 20 years leading HR, became a licensed attorney, and sat at the executive table where these decisions actually get made. Now I teach the people who have to make them.

Latisha Newby, Esq.
SHRM-SCP · PHR · J.D. · 20 years in executive HR

Latisha Newby, founder of Cultivate HR Consulting, on a staircase in a hot pink suit.
J.D. licensed attorney
SHRM-SCP · PHR · M.S. HRD
20 years in executive HR
and employment law
85% of students who reported
their exam results have passed
5.0 on Google
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Are you here for your HR career, or for your organization?

For HR Professionals

Earn your certification. Strengthen your HR judgment. Grow as a strategic HR leader.

  • SHRM and HRCI certification preparation
  • The HR Certification Accelerator, ten weeks live
  • HR Certification On-Demand, at your own pace
  • Free practice quiz and study resources
  • The Legally Savvy Leader™ Library
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For Organizations & Leaders

Develop managers who communicate clearly, exercise sound judgment, and handle difficult people decisions with confidence.

  • The Legally Savvy Leader™ leadership series
  • Corporate workshops built around your real situations
  • Keynotes and conference sessions
  • Certification for your whole HR team
  • Strategic HR advisory, by conversation
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The problem

Policies don’t make people decisions.Leaders do.

A leave request. A complaint. A difficult conversation. A hiring decision. A warning. A separation.

Leaders make people decisions every day, and almost none of them come with complete information. Waiting isn’t usually an option. The decision still has to be made.

The quality of your workplace is shaped by the quality of the decisions your leaders make every day.

Why it matters

A decision made without the right information rarely stays a small decision.

  1. One difficult conversation becomes an employee relations issue.
  2. An employee relations issue left alone becomes disengagement, then turnover.
  3. A complaint handled without a process becomes an investigation.
  4. An investigation without a record becomes a compliance issue.
  5. A compliance issue eventually becomes an expense that could have been prevented.

None of that begins as a legal problem. It begins as a Tuesday.

Latisha Newby taking notes at a boardroom table.
Why trust us

Twenty years inside the room where these decisions get made.

I am an HR executive, an attorney, and an educator. I spent two decades in executive HR, most recently as Chief People & Legal Officer at a national nonprofit.

I teach SHRM certification as Certification Director for SHRM Raleigh Metro, and I speak on employment law and leadership across the Southeast. That combination is the whole point: I can tell you what the law requires and what will actually work with the people in front of you.

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Where I have spoken and taught

  • Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
  • NC State University
  • Wake Forest University School of Law
  • Athena Leadership Conference
  • Carolina Payroll Conference
  • SHEEvolved
  • SHRM Raleigh Metro
  • Jones Advisors
  • NC National Association of Health Services Executives

What clients say

“Latisha has a broad range of skills that include compliance, benefits, training, and employee management. She is a caring professional who tries to find solutions that benefit both the employer and employee.”

Patricia Spillane University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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The HR Certification Accelerator is $997.

Ten weeks, live. Normally $1,425, so you save $428. The cohort begins Monday, September 28, with sessions Mondays and Thursdays, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. ET.

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Offer ends Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. ET.