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Experience
Since 1985 I have worked with community and church
groups as well as corporate and government organisations, facilitating
meetings and mediating disputes of many kinds. Through this work, I have developed special expertise in consensus building processes.
I am fully accredited
as a mediator under the National Mediation Accreditation scheme by LEADR (the association of Alternative
Dispute Resolution professionals). I have studied negotiation,
mediation and consensus-building at the world-leading Harvard Program
on Negotiation. A full list of courses I have attended appears below.
For the last 10 years I have worked as a corporate
trainer and consultant specialising in these areas, and before that I spent 6 years as a solicitor and legal academic. I regularly
teach basic and advanced level courses in negotiation and mediation
at Monash Law School, and design and deliver training workshops on all aspects of conflict management and communication in conjunction with CMA Learning.
CLIENTS
I have worked on a variety of mediation, facilitation
and consulting assignments with...
Non-profit organisations
and religious groups, including:
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Australian Student Christian Movement
ASCM Endowment Association
Native Title Services Victoria
NSW Aboriginal Land Council (Native Title Unit)
Oxfam/CAA
Disability Attendant Support Services Inc
Case Management Action Group
Uniting Church (congregations of St Andrews Brunswick, St Davids
West Brunswick, South West Brunswick, Ringwood, and St Stephens Ringwood
East; Presbytery of Port Phillip West)
Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council
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Small to medium
enterprises, including:
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Alpine Health
Building Commission
CMA Learning
Monash University Library
Plenty Valley Community Health Services
Small software and telco companies
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Large corporations, universities
and government agencies, including:
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ANZ Bank
Department of Education and Training (Vic)
Department of Human Services (Vic)
Department of Infrastructure (Vic)
Department of Treasury and Finance(Vic)
Environment Protection Agency (Vic)
Federal Court
Monash University
Victoria University |
In addition to my mediation, facilitation and
consulting assignments, I have developed and run skills development
subjects for:
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Monash University (Law School and MBA program)
Deakin University (MBA)
Swinburne University (MBA and MEI)
Quinnipiac University School of Law (in CT, USA) |
I have also designed and delivered hundreds of
training workshops in negotiation, mediation, conflict management
and communication skills for corporations and government agencies.
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
As noted above, I regularly teach courses
in negotiation, mediation and conflict management, at basic and
advanced levels. The training and professional development courses
I have attended as a participant include:
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Transformative
Mediation, VADRA (half day), 2006
Narrative Mediation,
National Mediation Conference (half day), 2006
Mediation Assessment &
Feedback, LEADR (videotaped role play), 2005
Advanced Facilitation Skills,
Resolve Advisors (3 days), 2005
Negotiation Skills,
Rogen (3 days), 2003
Negotiation and Mediation Skills,
Monash Law School/CMA (5 days), 2001
Mediation and Participatory
Processes, Harvard Program on Negotiation
(1 semester postgraduate seminar), 2000
Negotiation,
Harvard Program on Negotiation (1 semester postgraduate seminar),
1999
Mediation Training and Accreditation,
Australian Commercial Disputes Centre (5 days), 1996
Alternative Dispute Resolution,
UNSW School of Law (1 semester), 1992
Conflict Resolution,
Religious Society of Friends (1 day), 1985
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