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I work throughout British Columbia as a mediator, coach, workshop facilitator, and director. I support organizations to resolve conflict and to learn how to communicate better in resolving their own conflict. I am skilled at seeing and naming the issues. I have courage to face conflict, and support my clients to help them see that conflict is an every day part of life. I have facilitated workshops for large organizations in communicating in conflict, creating high functioning teams, and creating processes for resolving dispute. Mediation is assisted negotiation and I have been assisting clients in negotiation for 22 years, as a business lawyer. I act as a mediator with two parties, or multiple parties. I have been mediating since 2000.
I also coach business owners and executives. My background in law and business has helped me to support hundreds of small business owners over the last 20 years providing them with legal and business counselling on a variety of issues. I have a master's degree in leadership and human development, and I believe that we each need to take responsibility for our own lives. I see possibility and help others see the possibility of their lives too.
The skills of communicating in conflict are all about collaborating - speaking with courage while maintaining compassion for the interests of other people. Consequently, I bring those collaboration skills to the various board work that I am involved with as a director. I am currently a director for the boards of ICBC, the Prince George Airport Authority, and the CBA Benevolent Society. I understand the connection between negotiation skills and decision making. Although the goal is to resolve all conflict, sometimes all we are able to do is improve the relationship and increase the compassion in the work place. Compassionate work places are respectful, productive, kind and value profit and relationship. I think that we move toward a better world when we take a sustainable, long term approach to profit, and we see employees and CSR as an investment and not and expense.
It is my goal to create more compassionate workplaces. Workers who are collaborative and skilled at communicating in and out of conflict contribute to compassionate organizations. My current project is working on a doctorate in organizational development, where my interest is in collaboration and corporate social responsibility. I bring my knowledge, experience and passion for relationship to my work and I am eager to assist you in your dispute resolution process.
You might have linked onto this web site because you are involved in a dispute or are managing a department of workers involved in a dispute, and need to resolve some issues. Remember what Mother Theresa says “a smile is the beginning of peace”.
Sending smiles,
