Mike Jackson is Assistant General Counsel/Senior Director for Microsoft’s Global Workplace Investigations Team (WIT) and serves as an At-Large Board Member on the National LGBT Bar Association’s Board of Directors. As a member of the WIT leadership team, Mike leads a team of seven ethics and compliance attorneys responsible for conducting complex workplace investigations for the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, Mike helps lead the WIT team’s data governance and data reporting strategy. Prior to Microsoft, Mike was Director, Employee Relations Counsel at Target Corporation where led the employment team for Target’s Central US region (which stretches across 23 states and include over 500 stores). Before Target, Mike led the Employee Relations and Labor Relations functions for all of Smucker’s US manufacturing facilities and, prior to that role, he was global labor and employment counsel at McDonald’s Corporation in Chicago, Illinois. In 2019, Mike was recognized by the LGBT Bar as one of its 40 Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers under 40, and was also recognized as a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow. Mike is a proud Buckeye (graduate of The Ohio State University) and lives in Seattle, Washington with his husband.