Matt Paknis Leadership Development

"The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions." - Sandra Day O'Connor "One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." - Bryant H. McGill #endbullying #BeTransparent #stepup #metoo #healthyworkenvironments #innerpeace #leadersarentbullies #metoomovement #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

Below please find my response to a friend and colleague who had a personal encounter with Judge William E. Smith.  My friend asked me about my experiences with Smith.   Following please find the facts of my professional legal experiences with RI Federal Court Judge Smith and Magistrate Patricia A. Sullivan.   Facts: In March 2023 Toray dismissed my case, with prejudice, and paid my considerable legal bills. I signed nothing. This suggests they admitted the case was frivolous and neither Toray or Smith wanted the case to be heard in public.  Toray dismissed 51 months after filing the lawsuit in December 2018.  Normal federal court filing to hearing time is 12 to 14 months.   Smith and Magistrate Sullivan were former law partners whose firm likely served Toray.  Toray's counsel clerked for Sullivan. None of this was disclosed.  No one recused themselves.  Toray filed in 12/2018.  I was assigned a mediation with Sullivan and ...

"The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation." - Sukarno "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them." - Montesquieu "Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country." - Thurgood Marshall #endbullying #BeTransparent #StepUp #metoo #innerpeace #metoomovement #healthyworkenvironments #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact Given the profile of a prosocial and positive target, bullies often command coworkers to isolate the target, prohibiting them from helping the target on work-related tasks, or fraternizing with the target, or even taking breaks at the same time. #LeadersArentBullies

"Exceptional leaders don't impart just vision, rather they cultivate the emergence of vision." - Sudha Murty "Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments." - Alexander Hamilton

"Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away." - lsmail Haniyeh #endbullying #BeTransparent #StepUp #metoo #leadersarentbullies #innerpeace #metoomovement  #healthyworkenvironments #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

 

Below please find an updated Toray vs. Paknis abbreviated timeline, dated 10-26-2024, explaining why Toray Plastics America (TPA) sued me in Providence Federal Court in December 2018 and threatened my publisher with a lawsuit in June of 2019. The Goal in Writing Successful Leaders Aren't Bullies was for the book to be considered the universal go to source for people and organizations seeking protection and freedom from workplace bullying and abuse.   The book presents real life, yet scrubbed to protect identities, workplace bullying cases I addressed during my 25 + year long international consulting career.  The book was released in 9/2018 and was well received.  It gained an immediate and strong following until a  former client, Toray Plastics America, sued me in 12/2018 on false grounds, claiming a common reader could identify Toray in my book.  Toray also threatened to sue, in 6/2019, my publisher, unless they stopped printing and distributing my book....