Corporate Consulting
r. Shulman’s dedication to these issues includes prevention and understanding through corporate/retail consultation, seminars, and other professional services such as expert testimony. Mr. Shulman has been featured as an expert on Oprah, Prime Time, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, and in O Magazine, Hour Detroit, and the Chicago Sun Times. Click here to learn more about Mr. Shulman.
Attorney-at-law
Expert Testimony
Corporate Consultant
Mr. Shulman offers unique insights and strategies to all types and sizes of companies and organizations interested in deterring and preventing dishonesty in the workplace as well as promoting cohesiveness and loyalty.
Expert Media Interviewee
Seminar Leader / Facilitator / Trainer
Research and writing
Mr. Shulman has written extensively and developed or assisted in research on compulsive theft, spending and hoarding.
Go to our Articles and Presentations page to view some examples.
Facts about employee theft that you may not know:
- Businesses lose 20% of every dollar earned to employee theft
- 20% of employees are aware of fraud at their companies (including theft of office items, false claim of hours worked, and inflated expense accounts.)
- The average time it takes for an employer to catch a fraud scheme is 18 months.
- 55% of perpetrators are managers
- 44% of workers say their companies could do more to reduce fraud
- U.S. Retailers lose $25 Million a day, or $10 Billion a year, to shoplifting
- The Retail Industry in the U.S. loses $53.6 Billion a year due to internal loss (employee theft)
- 60% of companies have staff trained to deal with fraud and ethics issues ( up from 30% in 2000)
- Embezzlement is rooted in a lack of oversight, psychological issues, experts say. “If employees seem too good to be true, often they are,” said Terry Shulman, author of Biting the Hand That Feeds: The Employee Theft Epidemic. “Because often it is the star employee who is led out in handcuffs.”
Mr. Shulman has acted as a consultant for:
Radio Shack (TX)
LA District Attorney’s Office
British Broadcast Company
The Government of Poland
Catholic Social Services (PA)
Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility
Seiwa Shoten Publishing Co. (Japan)
Mr. Shulman has appeared on:
Oprah
Prime Time
The Early Show
MSNBC’s “Your Business”
MyFoxChicago
“Street Beat” Detroit
NPR
Mr. Shulman has given expert testimony in:
The Detroit Free Press
The Chicago Sun TimesWall Street Journal
The Detroit Metro Times
Addiction Professional Magazine
Seventeen Magazine
Recovery Magazine