Workplace Violence Specialist for the NC Office of State Personnel

Training Director for PREVENT, CDC funded violence prevention program of UNC-Injury Prevention Research Center

Victim Services Coordinator for Asheville Police Department

Domestic Violence in the Workplace

Published by HRD Press in 2004, provides guidelines, research and guidelines on addressing when domestic violence spills over into the workplace.

About Us

About the Director and CEO

Johnny Lee is the Director of Peace at Work, an agency dedicated to the prevention of violence in and through the workplace and CEO of Workplace Security Solutions which offers the ePanic Button, a desktop software duress alarm program.

He was previously also the Workplace Violence Specialist for the Office of State Personnel in Raleigh, North Carolina.  His responsibilities included consulting state agencies on the development and revision of their workplace violence programs.  Other experience includes his role as the Training Director for the UNC-Chapel Hill Injury Prevention Research Center's PREVENT program, delivering a national violence prevention training program.

HRD Press has published his human resources book, Addressing Domestic Violence in the Workplace in 2004 and produced the Domestic Violence Assaults at the Workplace Study of 500 incidents of domestic violence assaults which occurred in the workplace and produced the Workplace Campaign to End Domestic Violence, empowering community educator advocates to do outreach to their business community.  He also implemented the Batterers Treatment Certification Program for the State of North Carolina.  He also co-authored the Armed Robbery Preparation Manual, a training resource for front line clerks and bank tellers to survive a robbery and support the investigations.

Professional association memberships includes his role as the Chair of the Victim Services Interagency Council of North Carolina, a seat on the Board of Directors for the Businesses Continuity Planners of the Carolinas, an member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, former board member of the NC Victim Assistance Network and an active member of the Public Health Alliance to Prevent Violence against Women.

Previously, as the Victim Services Coordinator for the Asheville Police Department, he headed up a unit of staff and volunteer advocates delivering assistance to victims from the crime scene through to sentencing and beyond.

As an outdoor enthusiast, he led Outward Bound program for six years, from dog-sledding in Maine to white water paddling on the Rio Grande.