Biography:
Matthew W Burr , Human Resources Consultant, Burr Consulting LLC
Matthew Burr has over 10 years of experience working in the human resources field, starting his career as an industrial relations intern at Kennedy Valve Manufacturing to most recently founding and managing a human resource consulting company: Burr Consulting, LLC. He specializes in labor and employment law, conflict resolution, performance management, employee relations and work with labor unions. He also has a generalist background in HR and provides strategic HR services to his clients, focusing on small and medium sized organizations. He is the SHRM certification exam instructor at Elmira College. Mr. Burr also works as a trainer in Tompkins Cortland Community College, Corning Community College, Broome Community College and Penn State University. He is also an on-call mediator and fact-finder through the Public Employment Relations Board in New York State.
He has been published in Cornell HR Review, Business Insider, and Expert 360 (in Australia). He recently published his first book, “$74,000 in 24 Months: How I killed my student loans (and you can too!).”
Mr. Burr has an associate's degree in business administration from Tompkins Cortland Community College, a bachelor’s of science degree from Elmira College, a master's degree from the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations in Human Resources & Industrial Relations, and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification, both the SPHR and SHRM-SCP.
