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Denise Chachere

Denise Chachere is a self-employed consultant in human resource management and dispute resolution who also is an adjunct instructor at Saint Louis University. Chachere was elected to the STLCC Board of Trustees in April 2005.

Chachere started her own business, ee Assets LLC, in 1996. She has practiced human resource management at service and manufacturing firms in the private and public sectors for 12 years. She also has 15 years of teaching experience in management, statistics, human resource management, employment law, collective bargaining and labor economics. Her research and publications have focused on dispute resolution for union and nonunion employees and other strategic human resource initiatives and their relationship to organizational effectiveness measures.

Active in professional organizations, Chachere is a member of the American Arbitration Association, the American Society of Training and Development, the Labor and Employment Relations Association, the Society for Human Resource Management and World at Work.

Chachere completed her master's degree and doctoral coursework in industrial relations/human resource management at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. Her bachelor's degree in management is from Louisiana State University. She received the University of Illinois' Robert Ferber Dissertation Award and the McNatt Award in Labor Economics, and in 1990-91 was a University of Illinois Distinguished Fellow as well as an Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Distinguished Fellow.

Chachere is married with two children and two grandchildren. She also has hosted two exchange students who currently are studying abroad.