Webinar
Every performance conversation can be exhibit A
When: 2pm ET, November 11, 2026
Duration: 60 minutes
Performance conversations play a pivotal role in shaping employee performance, engagement, and workplace culture. When handled thoughtfully, they can clarify expectations, strengthen accountability and support professional growth. When handled poorly, however, they can become evidence in discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and other employment-related claims. HR leaders and managers face the challenge of fostering candid, constructive feedback while ensuring consistency, fairness and legal compliance. The issue is not whether performance concerns should be addressed, but how to address them in a way that drives improvement, reinforces trust and minimizes organizational risk.
Join attorneys Giovanni Antonucci di Cesare and Alejandro Perez of Pierson Ferdinand for a 60-minute webinar exploring the compliance principles that underpin effective performance conversations. Drawing on both legal and practical perspectives, they will examine how employers can set clear expectations, deliver objective feedback, and manage potential discrimination and retaliation risks. The discussion will also explore strategies for holding meaningful dialogue with employees and documenting conversations in a way that strengthens credibility and supports sound employment decisions.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Apply the “no surprises” principle to performance management discussions
- Deliver objective, consistent feedback grounded in observable facts
- Identify and avoid common legal pitfalls that can increase liability
- Document performance conversations to support compliance and decision-making
- And more!

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When: 2pm ET, Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Duration: 60 minutes
About the speaker

Giovanni Antonucci di Cesare
Partner at Pierson Ferdinand LLP
Giovanni Antonucci Di Cesare focuses his practice on labor and employment, immigration, and business matters. He has significant experience representing businesses, non-profit organizations, and institutions in single-plaintiff, collective action, and class action litigation that relates to labor, employment, and business claims before administrative agencies, courts, , and arbitrators.
Giovanni proactively and collaboratively partners with his clients to ensure their compliance with federal, state, and local laws, represents them during administrative audits and investigations, assists them with internal audits and investigations, and advises them on the implementation of best practices. He compliments his practice by advising on global workforce deployment and mobility matters. As part of his counseling, Giovanni drafts and advises on a wide range of agreements, policies, and protocols for employers, such as executive agreements, handbooks, and labor supply protocols.

Alejandro Pérez
Partner at Pierson Ferdinand LLP
Alejandro defends employers of all sizes against claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour violations, wrongful termination, unfair labor practice charges, and other disputes arising out of the employment relationship. He also represents employers in matters involving the misappropriation of trade secrets, breaches of restrictive covenants, non-compete agreements, and other contractually based claims.
Alejandro works closely with clients to create handbooks, HR policies, and develop best practices that are maximally compliant, minimize risk, increase employee job satisfaction, and support diversity and inclusion. He also helps clients with internal audits in various areas, including pay equity studies, I-9 compliance, and other employment-related compliance concerns.
Alejandro also travels around the country speaking and training employers, managers, and workforces on a myriad of cutting-edge employment law and labor relation topics, diversity and inclusion, LGBTQ+ workplace issues, workplace civility, the creation of respectful workplace norms, and leadership development.
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