Cool Hand Steven Brownstein

Not unlike Paul Newman, the real Cool Hand, Steven Brownstein has made his mark on the pre-employment screening industry by first opening up a forum where companies and individuals in the background check industry could converse - openly and publishing the 'real deal,' The Background Investigator (www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com), a monthly newspaper found online and also mailed as a very popular print edition.
What's remarkable is that the pre-employment screening industry would even talk to itself.  The worst kept secret was the method that they used to obtain criminal records.
The joke was on us because it turned out veryone was pretty much using the same sources and denying it to anyone who would listen.
In stepped the cool hand.
Steven Brownstein promoted the first ever pre-employment screening conference almost a decade ago.  Now everyone wanted to talk .
He has promoted nearly a dozen more such conferences since.
We're still talking.
This year, 2011, he has taken time off due to his busy schedule, so there is no conference. He is currently on his way to Hong Kong and Bangkok to meet with several of his key researchers.
But he promises an invigorating 2012 schedule that includes many new innovations and methods for providing criminal records to the background screening industry.
And that might include a conference or two.
I've got to Hand it to him, that's Cool.