MEET THE SPEAKER

Edmund B. Ura, JD, MAIR

Edmund B. Ura is a founder and President of ElementOne Consulting Group, Inc. (ElementOne). Ed works with human resource and general management, Directors and Board committees to assist them in developing effective organization designs, and compensation strategies and programs to meet strategic and operational needs.

Ed has more than 30 years of experience in designing and implementing employee and executive pay management programs for health centers and has worked with FQHCs of all sizes across the United States, in urban and rural environments, assisting in organization design and development, compensation program design, and performance management. Ed has managed numerous surveys of compensation, benefits and human resource practices, on an area-wide, state-wide and national scale, for hourly, salaried and executive positions.

Prior to joining ElementOne, Ed was a compensation consultant in the Detroit office of TPF&C (now part of Willis Towers Watson), working in both the executive compensation and salary management practices. He also worked as a research analyst for the Employers Association of Detroit (now the American Society of Employers).

A nationally-recognized expert on compensation and related issues, Ed's speaking and training sessions have been sponsored by numerous state-wide and national organizations, including state primary care associations in Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Nevada, Ohio, and Utah, as well as previously in Hawaii.

Ed earned his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He also earned a Bachelor of Science degree with High Distinction and Honors in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Industrial Relations (MAIR) degree, also from Wayne State. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and admitted to practice in the Federal District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan.