OVERVIEW

Step into the Future of Work and Leadership with this dynamic webinar featuring Lee Truax, Principal Consultant at BestResults.ai, and Angelo Spinola, Home Health, Home Care & Hospice Chair at Polsinelli. Simplify the complexities of AI and discover its transformative power for business. Lee Truax will share the latest breakthroughs, actionable strategies, and best practices for leaders and teams to harness AI effectively and drive innovation, efficiency, and growth. Angelo Spinola will provide an essential update on the evolving legal and regulatory landscape in the home care industry—including emerging issues related to the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT. Angelo will address HIPAA considerations, PHI protection, and the specific risks associated with using AI in clinical documentation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the impact of AI on the future of work – Explore how emerging AI technologies are transforming leadership, operations, and workforce dynamics.
2. Apply AI-driven strategies for growth – Identify practical approaches to harness AI for innovation, efficiency, and organizational performance.
3. Navigate legal and regulatory changes – Gain insights into the latest compliance and workforce regulations affecting the home-based care industry, including legal guidance on the use of AI tools in clinical environments, HIPAA obligations, PHI protection, and limitations on what staff may input into ChatGPT.
4. Lead confidently in the AI era – Develop leadership practices that balance technological advancement with ethical, legal, and human considerations.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Angelo Spinola
Home Health, Home Care & Hospice Chair, Polsinelli 

With two decades of legal experience, Angelo Spinola’s practice focuses on employment litigation with a special interest in the home health, home care and hospice industry. Bringing a wide breadth of knowledge across the health care spectrum, he works with an array of home-based care clients, including Fortune 500 organizations and franchisors, small businesses, and franchisees across multiple industries. Additionally, Angelo works closely with private equity firms and investment groups with respect to labor and employment issues that may arise during acquisitions and activities in these sectors.

Angelo partners with attorneys in Polsinelli’s Health Care, Corporate and Transactional, and Franchise practices to build coalitions that bring a deep bench of experience and industry knowledge to his clients in the home health, home care and hospice industry.

Leveraging technology to better serve clients, Angelo utilizes innovative legal technology platforms designed specifically for franchise systems and home health, home care and hospice clients. The platforms serve as a source for industry information and substantive legal resources where employers have direct access to the tools, documents and knowledge needed to reduce their legal spend as their business needs grow throughout the corporate lifecycle and franchise process. Angelo also utilizes client portals to share confidential, proprietary client documents to allow clients and him to seamlessly manage matters or case-specific documents.

Angelo regularly represents employers across the United States in class actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour laws. His experience includes:

• Helping employers respond to wage and hour investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor and state agency equivalents.
• Conducting pay practice and exemption audits.
• Due diligence support on mergers and acquisitions and other transactions.
• Coalition building and support for common issues across franchise systems and home care agencies.
• Consultation on joint employment and successor liability avoidance across franchise systems, staffing companies, multi-company health care systems, executives and business owners.
• Developing compliance measures that minimize wage and hour exposure.
• Representing management in grievance arbitrations.
• Drafting restrictive covenant agreements.

Angelo has litigated various types of discrimination cases, including age, disability, race, national origin, sex, harassment and retaliation, on behalf of employers in federal and state courts and administrative tribunals throughout the United States.

Additionally, Angelo assists employers in promoting an issue-free work environment through counseling, training and other preventive strategies. He conducts training on employment-related matters for management personnel, lawyers and human resources professionals, and he is a regular speaker before business organizations and human resource groups on a wide variety of employment law topics.

Angelo has earned recognition from Chambers USA, a leading legal industry rankings organization, with clients noting that “Angelo is the go-to attorney in employment law for home care companies” and “Angelo has an exceptional knowledge base and unmatched ability to convey that knowledge to those with very little legal background.”

Lee Truax
President, BestResults.AI 

With extensive experience in enterprise technology, business development, and  strategic growth in both corporate  and the nonprofit sector, Lee is  uniquely positioned to leverage AI tools for identifying growth opportunities, optimizing business processes, enhancing decision-making, and improving efficiency and impact in both corporate and nonprofit settings.

A veteran of the IT Industry, Lee worked for some of the “who’s who” of the computer industry:  Zenith Data Systems, Memorex Telex, NetFRAME Systems, Tandem Computers, Compaq Computer Corporation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). 

Starting in the IT field in pre-sales technical roles, Truax continued on the sales and marketing side of the business. As a Business Development Executive, Truax drove the Northeast US semiconductor business development efforts for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).  Truax is also an NFL Stadium Technician serving the New England Patriots on the Official NFL Stats’ Crew (a game day assignment) for the last 34 seasons.

A graduate of Messiah University in Grantham, PA, with a BA in English, Lee also earned an MBA in Leadership from Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, and is a doctoral candidate in business administration (DBA in Leadership) from Liberty University with an expected completion in 2025. 

Truax became President of CBMC, Inc (USA). headquartered in Chattanooga, TN from 2009 – 2017 where he led the ministry in a significant digital transformation.  Member of the Global Leadership Team (GLT) for CBMC International from 2010 - 2019, Truax served with a team of global leaders responsible for marketplace ministry operations across the globe. 

From 2019 - 2021 served as President of the Fellowship of Companies for Christ International (FCCI), a global marketplace fellowship of companies stewarded for business excellence and Kingdom impact. In 2017, he launched LCT Consulting to provide consulting services and coaching in the SMB and not for profit arena.  He also  serves as the Vice President of Business Development and International Initiatives for Convene Corp., a top tier faith-integrated peer advised professional round table organization.

In 2024 Lee joined BestResults.AI