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Lee E. Miller

Lecturer, Human Capital Management

Lee Miller has over 30-years’ experience as a human resources executive, employment & labor lawyer, executive coach and corporate trainer, specializing in the fields of leadership, human resources, influencing, negotiating, total rewards and innovation. He is also an adjunct professor at USC and at Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of business.

Previously, he was the Chief Human Resources Officer at TV Guide, USA Networks and Barney's New York, Inc., Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations at R.H. Macy & Co. Inc. He is the former Chair of the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters, and Secretary to the Union County Motion Picture Advisory Board. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Washington State Bar Association Credit Union and an advisor to, and an honorary director of, the Tianjin Society in Singapore.

He has a Juris Doctor degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard Law School and Bachelor of Arts Summa Cum Laude from Rutgers College. He is the author of UP: Influence Power and The U Perspective- The  Art of Getting What You Want, and, with his daughter Jessica Miller, A Woman’s Guide To Successful Negotiating,  selected  by  Huffington Post as “One of the 16 Must Reads for Aspiring Women Leaders.” He is also the co-author of Getting People to Believe in Something They Can’t Yet Imagine published in the Harvard Business Review Online.

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School
  • B.A., Rutgers College