Here’s the situation, I have an HR employee that made a formal complaint about a senior leader’s inappropriate behavior in the work place last summer. Because this person was a member of the HR team, an investigation was claimed to have been completed by the legal department. The conclusion of the investigation resulted in coaching for both employees to only discuss work related topics. The initial complaint was made over 6 months ago and since then the senior leader has chastised and put this HR employee on an island. The senior leader goes out of his way to avoid her, ignores her in face to face meetings and even discourages his own team from speaking her name. She is often excluded from key communication because he doesn’t CC her. However, he does include her counterpart which supports a different area within the same region. This employee is asking for my advice and I’m looking to this team for answers since the top execs have been made aware of his behavior but nothing has changed. In fact, the only thing that they have shared is how much this experience will help this person in future roles and how she will grow and learn from this experience. What advice can this community lend?

