Past Guests on Prescriptions for Healing Conflict
Douglas Fry: Monday, May 14, 2012
Dr. Douglas P. Fry is a docent in the Developmental Psychology Programme and administers the programme called Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, a cooperative Master’s Programme between the University of Tampere and Åbo Akademi University (PEACE). Dr. Fry also is an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Arizona.
Dr. Fry, an anthropologist, has written extensively on aggression, conflict, and conflict resolution from various theoretical perspectives, with his articles having been published in journals such as Aggressive Behavior, American Anthropologist, Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Child Development, Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research, Sex Roles, among others.
Dr. Fry is author of the books Beyond War (2007, Oxford University Press), The Human Potential for Peace (2006, Oxford University Press) and co-editor with Graham Kemp of Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies Around the World (2004, Routledge) and co-editor with Kaj Björkqvist of Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence (1997, Erlbaum). He is Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, 2nd Edition (2008, Elsevier/Academic). During the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Fry is editing a book called War, Peace, and Human Nature, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2013.
Dr. Fry is conducting an ongoing research project that examines conflict management and reconciliation using a cross-cultural database covering 186 societies. One of his research interests is to understand how to create peace systems by examining real world examples of such nonwarring clusters of societies.
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Kimberly Pryor: Monday, May 7, 2012 
Kimberly Pryor is the author of The Indestructible Relationship, a book to help couples stress-proof their love life, argue less and fall even more deeply in love. The book was a finalist in the 2011 Global eBook Awards and is a finalist in the 2012 EPIC eBook Awards. Kimberly also is an award-winning journalist who has had more than 600 articles published in magazines and newspapers. For more information about The Indestructible Relationship.
Visit Kimberly Pryor’s website at: www.indestructiblerelationship.com
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Judge Lon Hurwitz: Monday, April 30, 2012
Judge Hurwitz was elected to the Bench in June 2010. Before his term of office was to begin in Jan. 2011, he was appointed to the Bench by Gov. Schwartzenegger. From 2004 until his appointment, he served as a Family Law Commissioner for Orange County handling Paternity, child support, and Family Law Domestic Violence Cases. Judge Hurwitz is currently assigned to a Family Law Trial Court where he hears all Family Law case types. He is one of four Judges in the County assigned to hear Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse cases.
In 2009, Judge Hurwitz started the first Veterans’ Family Law Domestic Violence Diversion Program in the U.S. In January of this year, he received the Distinguished Jurist Award from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; and also received the “Judge of the Year Award” from the Orange County Bar Association Family Law Division. From 2008 until 2010, he served as a member of the State Judicial Council and was the Judicial Council Liaison to the State Domestic Violence Task Force; both by appointment from the Chief Justice, Ron George. He is currently a contributor and contributing Editor for the Judicial Council publication, “Elder Abuse Pocket Reference”, a guide for Judges handling Elder Abuse cases.
Before becoming a Judicial Officer, Judge Hurwitz was the Special Counsel to the California State Senate Select Committee on the Investigation of Gasoline and Diesel Pricing; and was an arbitrator, mediator and attorney in Orange County since 1979.
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Mari Frank and Leonard Szymczak: Monday, April 23, 2012
Leonard Szymczak, MSW, LCSW is an author, educator and psychotherapist who, for the past 35 years, has worked in Australia and America, helping clients resolve conflict. 
He is the author of The Roadmap Home: Your GPS to Inner Peace, an Amazon Bestseller in 2009. He conducts seminars on personal/spiritual growth and maintains a therapy practice.
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Michael Nagler: Monday, April 16, 2012
Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program in which he taught the immensely popular nonviolence course that was webcast in its entirety as well as PACS 90, “Meditation” and a sophomore seminar called “Why Are We Here? Great Writing on the Meaning of Life” for fifteen years.
He is the author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future, which received a 2002 American Book Award and has been translated into Korean, Arabic, Italian and other languages; Our Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence (2005); The Upanishads (with Sri Eknath Easwaran, 1987), and other books as well as many articles on peace and spirituality.
He has spoken for campus, religious, and other groups on peace and nonviolence for many years, especially since September 11, 2001. He has consulted for the U.S. Institute of Peace and many other organizations and is the founder and President of the board of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education. Michael has worked on nonviolent intervention since the 1970’s and served on the Interim Steering Committee of the Nonviolent Peaceforce.
Michael is a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran, Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, and has lived at the Center’s ashram in Marin County since 1970. He gives workshops on Easwaran’s system of passage meditation around the world.
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Carl Stauffer: Monday, April 9, 2012
Dr. Carl Stauffer teaches Justice and Development Studies at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University. Stauffer was born and raised amidst the war in Vietnam. In 1975, his family fled Vietnam and moved to the Philippines just as the Marcos regime was beginning to crumble. After completing his university education in 1985, Stauffer worked in the Criminal Justice and Substance Abuse fields. In 1988, he was ordained to the ministry and joined an urban, inter-racial church plant and community development project in the inner-city of Richmond, Virginia. In 1991, Stauffer became the first Executive Director of the Capital Area Victim-Offender Mediation Program in Richmond.
In 1994, Stauffer and his family moved to South Africa under the auspices of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a faith-based international relief and development agency. In South Africa, Stauffer worked with various transitional processes such as the Peace Accords, Community-Police Forums, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Local Community Development structures. From 2000 to 2009, Stauffer was appointed as the MCC Regional Peace Adviser for the Southern Africa region. His work has taken him to twenty African countries and ten other countries in the Caribbean, Middle East, Europe, and the Balkans.
Stauffer’s academic interests focus on narratology, transitional justice, and post-war reconstruction and reconciliation. His research concentrates on the critique of transitional justice from a restorative frame, and the application of hybrid, parallel indigenous justice systems.
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Sandy Moore: Monday, April 2, 2012
Sandy Moore graduated from USC with a degree in teaching and subsequently earned a Masters in Educational Administration, followed by 20 years in public service as a school teacher.
She completed ministerial training and is now the Spiritual Director of the InSpirit Center for Spiritual Living in Mission Viejo, California. The center is actively involved in numerous outreach activities, including ministries devoted to the environment, health, and peace.
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Paula Langguth Ryan: Monday, March 26, 2012
Paula Langguth Ryan is a conflict resolution consultant, dedicated to helping business leaders break through to new levels of confidence, peace and abundance in all areas of their lives. She provides individual executive coaching and facilitates management and board meetings and in house negotiations, primarily with closely-held corporations. She conducts tailor-made in-service trainings for Boards of Directors, staff, employees and members in groups of all sizes. Ryan works with employee relations departments to create mediation skills training programs and in-house resolution
services. She also provides transition, separation and debt settlement mediation and negotiation services for employees and business owners. Her strategic pre-negotiation services have helped business owners and executives from a variety of industries close high dollar deals, including mergers, acquisitions, company transitions from original owners. She is noted for being able to help all parties reach a cheerful resolution to once-heated negotiations and lawsuits. Her aim: to help corporations and business leaders achieve their goals and dreams in ways that are win-win-win for all. Her “Ryans Rules of Order” hang on the walls of businesses and organizations worldwide.
Ryan is a certified Spiritual Transformation Mediator who believes that – like most bank heists – outer peace is always an inside job. She is a Chair of the Spirituality Section for the Association of Conflict Resolution, a past member of Mediators Beyond Borders and the founder of The Village Gathering, an NGO which helps support Kenyans who are engaged in creating sustainable conflict resolution strategies.
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Patrick Ryan: Monday, March 19, 2012
Patrick Ryan died from a drug overdose in his late teens only to be revived with a new understanding of the Divine. 
As a Buddhist monk in Burma (now Myanmar), he practiced the path of awakened living, according to Buddhist philosophy. He has also studied indigenous wisdoms with a variety of teachers.
His #1 bestselling book Awakened Wisdom blends Buddhist, Native, and collected wisdoms 
into a beautifully crafted healing message for our modern culture. His work focuses on questions of personal effectiveness and leadership. He powerfully integrates his rich life experiences with ancient teachings and modern applications to help deepen his clients’ understandings of their own experiences.
Patrick is married and lives in Mill Valley, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He travels extensively and offers workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Midwest, Vancouver, Frankfurt Germany, Israel, Dubai and Jordan.
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Rusty Kennedy: Monday March 12, 2012
Rusty Kennedy has served as Executive Director of the Orange County Human Relations Commission since 1981 and as the founding CEO of the non-profit Orange County Human Relations Council, established 1991. The mission at OC Human Relations is to promote understanding among diverse residents and eliminate prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.
Raised in Fullerton, Rusty’s first taste of civil rights activism was in 1965, when as a 13 year old he marched in Sacramento with Cesar Chavez to bring attention to the plight of farmworkers. One of his first political acts was to go door-to-door to oppose the ballot measure to repeal the California Fair Housing Act, when he was 14 years old. Under the urging of his father, Ralph Kennedy, he knocked on doors and asked voters to vote against the repeal of this landmark civil rights law.
Recently Rusty was called on by the Fullerton City Council to lead a Task Force to assess and advise how to better serve the mentally ill homeless. This coming in the wake of the death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man, after a confrontation with police.
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Marci Shimoff: Monday, March 5, 2012
Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and a world-renowned transformation teacher. As an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love, Marci has inspired millions of people around the globe, sharing her breakthrough methods for personal fulfillment and professional success.
Her newest book, Love for No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love debuted at #3 on the NY Times bestseller list. In it, Marci introduces a revolutionary program to live in a deep and lasting state of love and shows you how to access that at any time and in any circumstance.
Marci’s other books include the runaway bestseller, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out and six titles in the phenomenally successful Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul series. Her books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide in 33 languages, have topped all of the major bestseller lists, and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 118 weeks. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time.
Marci is the also the host of the national PBS television special called Happy for No Reason. In addition, she’s a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret.
Marci is a professional speaker and a leading expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. She is dedicated to helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives. Please join me in welcoming to our show today, Marci Shimoff.
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Mari Frank and Lloyd Felver: Monday, February 27, 2012
Mari J. Frank, attorney/mediator 26 years, teaches ADR at UCI, National Advisory Board: Divorce Magazine, OC 
Superior Court Civil Mediation Panel, OC Bar, Fee Arbitration/ Mediation panel, Radio Host KUCI, Prescriptions for Healing Conflict, State Bar Executive Committee Law Practice & Technology, State Bar MCLE Trainer, Member, OC Bar ADR section, Certified Privacy Expert, Author: Negotiations Breakthroughs; Stepping Stones To Success; Safeguard Your Identity; From Victim To Victor, Recovering From Identity Theft.
Lloyd W. Felver has been an attorney since 1980, litigating in the areas of: Personal Injury, Construction Defect, 
Contracts, Insurance Agent & Broker liability, Homeowner Association liability, Wrongful Termination, Discrimination and Sexual Harassment. He is the 2011 Chair of the ADR section of the OCBA, and does arbitrations and mediations privately, through the courts, and CSP, as well as arbitrations for the Better Business Bureau, and attorney’s fees Arbitrations for the OCBA and State Bar.
Please visit www.ocmediationconference.org
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Mark Anthony: Monday, February 20, 2012
Mark Anthony the “Psychic Lawyer” is a practicing medium who not only communicates with spirits, he is also a successful attorney, licensed to practice law in
Florida, Washington D.C., and before the United States Supreme Court.
He is descended from a long line of psychics and mediums that have been helping people connect with deceased loved ones for over 100 years. His new book, “Never Letting Go,” is a best seller. “Never Letting Go” is the definitive guide to healing grief with help from the Other Side.
Although he has inherited the ability to communicate with spirits, Mark has worked conscientiously to expand his psychic gifts to the fullest potential. This includes study at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College for the Advancement of Psychic Science in England.
Mark is also a successful attorney and certified mediator. He earned his law degree from Mercer University in Georgia and studied law at Oxford University, England. As both a defense and prosecuting attorney, Mark has solid experience with a wide range of criminal offenders from shoplifters to carjackers to murderers. His professional life has been enhanced by his exceptional intuition. His psychic gifts have provided him with a unique outlook on criminal behavior as well as uncanny empathy for murder victim’s families.
Visit Mark Anthony’s website at www.MediumMarkAnthony.com
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Lawrence Polsky and Antoine Gerschel: Monday, February 13, 2012
Lawrence Polsky & Antoine Gerschel have traveled the world assisting thousands 
of leaders on 5 continents to navigate change and conflict. As Managing Partners at PeopleNRG, a global leadership consulting firm in Princeton, New Jersey, they re-energize leaders and teams by helping them address the fundamental barriers to organizational performance: unclear objectives, inadequate communication, misunderstood roles and responsibilities, and poor decision making processes.
Antoine has 15+ years of experience developing award-winning programs improving business communication and leadership within global, multi-cultural settings. He has firsthand experience as an
entrepreneur and corporate leader in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Lawrence specializes in coaching leaders to improve their Emotional Intelligence. This expertise was developed through his postgraduate work at the Institute for Human Development, under the direction of Dr. Wilson Tilley, focusing on the impact of emotions on communication, problem solving, and relationships.
For more information visit www.peoplenrg.com
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James Sutton: Monday, February 6, 2012
It was as a school psychologist that Jim Sutton developed exceptional skills in assessing and outlining management and treatment for emotionally and behaviorally troubled youngsters. 
Demand for these skills grew when he completed his doctorate, earned his psychologist’s licensure, opened a private practice, and began consulting, writing, speaking, and training nationally. His clients have included over four dozen universities, schools and school districts, residential treatment centers, group and foster homes, hospitals, juvenile justice authorities, drug and alcohol treatment facilities, and child-service agencies.
When parents are concerned about their children and their relationships with them, it can affect everything they do. Simple interventions parents can implement at home can improve the family climate dramatically.
Parents want to communicate and relate to their children in a manner that is natural and comfortable. In today’s high-pressure and fast-moving world, however, “natural and comfortable” can be tough to achieve. Children often act out their unhappiness in ways that create difficulty at home and school, adding even more stress and strain on the family. Although it takes effort to settle behaviors and bring relationships back to where they need to be, it’s not as difficult as it might seem. This guest offers real and doable solutions.
Psychologist Dr. James Sutton is a plain-speaking expert who offers a fresh approach to child behavior. He has helped thousands repair and rebuild relationships with their children.
Jim and his wife, Bobbie, have two grown children and four grandchildren. Their Yorkshire Terrier, Lucy, graciously shares her home with them.
Visit Dr. Sutton’s website at www.DocSpeak.com
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Allan Lokos: Monday, January 30, 2012
Allan Lokos is the founder and guiding teacher of The Community Meditation Center in New York City. He is the author of Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living and 
Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living. His writing has appeared in a number of newspapers nationwide such as The New York Times, and The Huffington Post. He has also taught at Columbia University Teachers College, Marymount College, and Insight Meditation Community of Washington to name a few.
Allan has practiced meditation since the mid-nineties and studied with renowned teachers such as Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Stephen Batchelor, and Larry Rosenberg. He has also attended a number of weeklong teachings with the Dalai Lama.
Earlier in this life Allan enjoyed a 30 year career as a professional singer on Broadway, in opera, and in concert. He lives on Manhattan’s upper West Side with his wife Susanna, an Interfaith minister. Allan was selected as one of “50 Inspiring Religious Leaders You Should Follow on Twitter.” He is an accomplished Native American flute player and an avid photographer of wildlife which has been the motivation for his numerous African safaris.
Craig Runde and Tim Flanagan: Monday, January 23, 2012
Craig E. Runde, Director of the Center for Conflict Dynamics at Eckerd College, oversees training and development on the Conflict Dynamics Profile assessment instrument and
other products and services of the Center. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on workplace conflict issues and is co-
author of Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader; Building Conflict Competent Teams; and Developing Your Conflict Competence. Before joining Eckerd he was the director of the International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning at Wake Forest University. Craig has his B.A. from Harvard University, an M.L.L. from the University of Denver, and a J.D. from Duke University. He has practiced law in Colorado and has taught at the University of Minnesota Law School and Wake Forest University.
Tim A. Flanagan, Director of Custom Programs for the Leadership Development Institute at Eckerd College, earned his M.A. at the Ohio State University and
worked in higher education for eight years before entering the Human Resource Development field in 1985. Tim’s experience includes leading the senior leadership development programs at the Harris Corporation, managing consulting services for Development Dimensions International, building the training program at AAA Tampa, and guiding the custom development of discovery learning programs at Paradigm Learning. Tim is a frequent presenter at professional conferences and has consulted with scores of leading national and international firms. He is co-author of Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader; Building Conflict Competent Teams; and Developing Your Conflict Competence.
Visit Craig Runde and Tim Flanagan’s website at www.conflictcompetent.com
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Beverly Engel: Monday, January 16, 2012
Beverly Engel, L.M.F.T., has thirty years experience working with victims of emotional, physical and sexual abuse and has written 20 books on these subjects. She has shared
her expertise on many national television and radio programs, including Oprah, CNN, and Starting Over. Her work has also been cited in many noted 
newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, O Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping.
Engel has presented workshops at many national conferences and has also taught staff members at the following facilities, among many others: Los Angeles County Mental Health, Atascadero State Mental Hospital, Atascadero, CA., Raphael House in Portland, Oregon, and the North Harbor Living without Violence, Auckland, New Zealand. Engel has taught students at the following universities: U.S.C. Graduate Students in Psychology, Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA., California State Universities at Los Angeles, Northridge and Dominguez Hills, and the University of Montana-Western, Dillon, Montana.
Visit Beverly Engel’s website at www.beverlyengel.com
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Harry Bury: Monday, January 9, 2012
Harry J. Bury, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate divisions (1979 – present).
Dr. Bury also holds the Chair as Director of the Doctorate Program in Business Administration (DBA) at Burapha University in Bangkok, Thailand. He teaches Advanced International Organizational Behavior. He earned a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Organizational Behavior in 1975. 
He also completed the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s Post-graduate Program in 1975. Since then he has been involved in individual and large-scale systems change in the industrial, public and community sectors. In addition, he has co-developed an organic approach to management and organizational development toward creating open and free-flowing communications, increased productivity, collaborative management of work team culture, enriched job content and improved interpersonal and inter-group relations.
Dr. Bury’s career is highlighted by consultations for corporations and governmental agencies worldwide. He has consulted with such organizations as TRW, Baily Controls, RTA, EMD Pharmaceuticals, and The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank among others.
Visit Dr. Bury’s website at www.harryjbury.com
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John Marks: Monday, January 2, 2012
John Marks is President and founder of Search for Common Ground, a non-profit conflict resolution organization with offices in 25 countries. He also founded and heads 
Common Ground Productions. He wrote and produced The Shape of the Future, a four-part, TV documentary series that was simulcast on Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab satellite TV, and he is executive producer of The Team TV and radio series in 17 countries and numerous other TV and radio programs. Along with his wife, Susan Collin Marks, he is a Skoll Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. He is a former US Foreign Service Officer and Executive Assistant to the late US Senator Clifford Case. A graduate of Cornell University and recipient of an honorary doctorate from the UN’s University for Peace, he was a Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. He is a best-selling, award-winning author and a Senior Ashoka Fellow.
Visit John Marks’ website at www.sfcg.org
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Beverly Potter: Monday, December 26, 2011
Beverly A. Potter, PhD (“Docpotter”) earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from Stanford University and her masters in vocational rehabilitation counseling from San 
Francisco State University. She is a corporate trainer, public speaker and has authored a number of books on workplace issues like overcoming job burnout, managing yourself for excellence, high performance goal setting, mediating conflict, and more. Her website—docpotter.com—is pack with useful information.
Docpotter was a member of the staff development team at Stanford University for nearly twenty years and on the faculty for Berkeley Executive Seminars for City Managers sponsored by University of California School of Public Policy for 8 years.
Additionally, Docpotter worked with a team of psychologists training police officers as trainers in Crisis Intervention, an in-field mediation process for defusing 415s or civil disputes, the most dangerous police call. She also worked as a faculty advisor for police earning masters degrees.
Visit Beverly Potter’s website at www.docpotter.com
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Randall Kiser: Monday, December 19, 2011
Randall Kiser is the principal analyst at DecisionSet®, a decision services and professional development company. His research regarding attorney-client decision making integrates the fields of law, economics, statistics and psychology.
Mr. Kiser is the author of two books, Beyond Right and Wrong: The Power of Effective Decision Making for Attorneys and Clients (Springer, 2010) and How Leading Lawyers Think: Expert Insights Into Judgment and Advocacy (Springer, 2011). He also is the lead author of the widely read article, “Let’s Not Make A Deal: An Empirical Study Of Decision Making In Unsuccessful Settlement Negotiations” (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2008).
Mr. Kiser received his law degree in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and obtained his undergraduate degree in 1975 from the University of California, Davis (Highest Honors). His legal education is complemented by the award in 2002 of a certificate in leadership from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. Before entering the decision sciences field, Mr. Kiser represented clients in complex commercial litigation disputes for 20 years.
Visit Randall Kiser’s website at www.decisionset.com
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Leonard Szymczak: Monday, December 12, 2011
Leonard Szymczak, MSW, LCSW, has been a psychotherapist and educator for over 35 years, both in Australia and America. He was Director of the Family Therapy Program at
the Marriage and Family Centre in Sydney, Australia and later served as a senior affiliate therapist with the Family Institute at Northwestern University. He’s the author of The Roadmap Home: Your GPS to Inner Peace, an Amazon bestseller in 2009, and Cuckoo Forevermore, a light-hearted satire on psychotherapy.
Throughout his life, Leonard has been committed to ongoing personal growth and believes firmly in the power of the individual to overcome adversity and transform one’s life. He utilizes the concept of the hero’s journey to help individuals reshape their stories into amazing adventures. He firmly believes that when connected to the Guiding Power of Spirit, individuals can shift problems and pain into opportunities for healing and growth and return Home to love and inner peace.
A licensed clinical social worker, Leonard lives near the beach in Southern California where he writes, conducts seminars on writing and personal/spiritual growth and maintains a private practice. He is the proud father of two adult children.
Visit Leonard Szymczak’s website at www.theroadmaphome.com
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Scott Bollens: Monday, December 5, 2011
Prof. Scott Bollens studies ethnicity and urban policy, development strategies, and regional and intergovernmental approaches to planning. Here are questions that guide his research and teaching: (1) what is the role and influence of urban planning and policy amidst deep inter-group conflict, (2) can bottom-up urbanism contribute to top-down peacemaking and efforts to democratize a multinational society, (3) what is the relationship between how governance is structured in metropolitan areas and the equality/inequality of opportunity across individuals and localities?
Over the past 15 years, Prof. Bollens has interviewed over 220 urban professionals and community advocates in Jerusalem, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia (Cyprus), Sarajevo and Mostar (Bosnia), and Barcelona and Basque cities (Spain) about the role of urban policy and city building amidst nationalistic ethnic conflict and political transitions. His books include Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization (2007), On Narrow Ground (2000) and Urban Peace-Building in Divided Societies (1999).
Prof. Bollens has written more than 35 journal articles and book chapters in leading venues over the past 20 years and has presented at numerous public forums in the U.S. and throughout the world. He has consulted, given invited presentations, and done commissioned work in the field of peace and international cooperation.
Prof. Bollens’ current book is City and Soul in Divided Societies. This book focuses on the historical, theoretical, and practical issues of urban divisions, but also uniquely provides a first-person account of conducting interview-based ethnography in these places of ethnic and nationalist polarization. The book puts forth facts, opinions, photographs, and observations in ways that bring to life the substantial challenges of living in, and governing, polarized and unsettled cities.
As part of the research for this book, Prof. Bollens will be at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon during the Fall 2010 quarter.
Visit Scott Bollens’ website at http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/bollens
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Arezou Kohan: Monday, November 28, 2011
Arezou Kohan was a civil litigator in private practice for over a decade before she found her calling as a mediator and life-coach. She has volunteered in the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, served as a judge pro tem in Los Angeles County Superior Court, externed for Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals Judge Arthur L. Alarcon, built a house in Guatemala with Habitat for Humanity, trekked the Annapurna Mountains in Nepal, backpacked through Yosemite, traveled to over 20 countries, fled her country of origin during a revolution, studied international law at the Sorbonne University in Paris, and was the founding President of the Board of Directors for Outpost for Contemporary Art.
Her vast range of life experiences allow her to appreciate a large variety of perspectives that she brings to the table along with her warmth, humor, and compassion. Her highly developed intuition and out of the box thinking allow 
her to find creative solutions to problems that might be missed by others. She is the Author of “Healing Conflict,” a “how to” guide for resolving disputes through higher consciousness and leads Workshops on “Conflict as Opportunity for Conscious Growth.” Her rates are on a suggested donation basis and she does house calls.
Arezou earned her JD from Southwestern University School of Law in 1996. She trained as a mediator at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law and obtained her life-coaching certificate from Coaches Training Institute.
Visit Arezou Kohan’s website at www.arezoukohanlaw.com
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Azim Khamisa: Monday, November 21, 2011
Azim Noordin Khamisa – an author, activist and inspirational speaker – was born in Kenya, Africa. Committing his life to halting the continuing cycle of violence among the youth, Azim became a social activist after his 20-year-old son Tariq was senselessly murdered while delivering pizzas in January 1995 by Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old gang 
member.
Out of unspeakable grief and despair, Khamisa was inspiredto transform his loss through the miraculous power of forgiveness. Believing that there were “victims at both ends of the gun,” Azim forgave Tony and founded the Tariq Khamisa Foundation to break the cycle of youth violence by saving lives, teaching peace and planting seeds of hope in their future. A month after establishing the foundation, Azim invited Ples Felix, Tony’s grandfather and guardian, to join him. Together, since November 1995, the two have brought their story and message through TKF’s Violence Impact Forums. The duo has reached a half a million elementary and middle school children live and over 20 million via video programs, guiding the youth to choose a peacemaker’s life of non-violence and forgiveness.
He is an award-winning author of the book: Azim’s Bardo – “From Murder To Forgiveness – A Father’s Journey”. He followed up this book with “From Forgiveness to Fulfillment”, showing the continued evolution in an unfolding story that is his path, his passion and his life. A third in the trilogy is “From Fulfillment to Peace”. In February 2009 Random House published “The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit: How to Bounce Back from Life’s Hardest Hits”, Azim’s latest book coauthored with Jillian Quinn. And finally “The Truth,” a movie in the vein of “The Secret.” Says Azim, “We humans continuously confront defining moments in our lives. Sometimes these events are joyous; sometimes they are tragedies. At these moments it’s important to make the right choices. When we do, we’re able to manifest miracles and produce transformation in ourselves and others.”
Visit Azim Khamisa’s website at www.AzimKhamisa.com
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Jane Zalben: Monday, November 14
, 2011
Jane Breskin Zalben began drawing seriously at the age of five. To encourage her artistic talent, her mother took her for weekly art lessons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her father called her drawings “love pictures,” and in second grade Jane began to explore her gift for writing by composing poetry for the class newspaper. It is no wonder that today Jane Breskin Zalben is a well-known author and illustrator who has published about fifty books for young readers.
Jane Breskin Zalben was born in New York City, where she attended the High School of Music and Art. She received a B.A. in art from Queens College, then went on to study lithography at the Pratt Graphics Center. She now lives on Long Island, New York with her husband, Steven.
Ms. Zalben began her career as a graphic designer and worked for several New York publishing houses, including Scribner’s, where she was the art director of children’s books. She still prefers to be involved in every stage of a book’s production. A book designer as well as an artist, Jane Breskin Zalben is as concerned with type and layout as she is with illustration. “It is my job,” she says, “to bring words to life and to add another dimension to them.”
Ms. Zalben has been involved in many workshops, including “A Sense of Wonderment: Children’s Book Illustration” at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York, and exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Justin Schiller Gallery, Every Picture Tells a Story, Elizabeth Stone Gallery, Bush Gallery, and the American Institute of Graphics Art Show. She was a writer/artist-in-residence at Vassar’s Publishing Institute and was on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York City for eighteen years, where she taught courses in the illustration, design, and writing of children’s books.
Jane Breskin Zalben’s acclaimed picture books and novels explore basic issues of friendship, family, self-reliance, and inner strength. It’s obvious that Jane Breskin Zalben is passionate about her work– so much so that she dates the events in her life by what book she was working on at the time. However, she believes that her family is even more important; Beni’s First Chanukah, the first in a series of Jewish Holiday books for children, was inspired by and dedicated to her sons, Alexander and Jonathan. The special times she has shared with her family motivated her to create over forty books.
Jane Breskin Zalben devotes her time to her work and to traveling around the world lecturing on children’s books and encouraging children and aspiring artists and writers. I always identify with children,” she says, “because I do remember.”
Visit Jane Zalben’s website at www.JaneBreskinZalben.com
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Mark Goulston, PhD: Monday, November 7, 2011
Mark Goulston, M.D. is Chairman and co-founder of Xtraordinary Outcomes. If you Discover Your Strengths and come from that, you will certainly succeed; but if you Discover Your Core of Excellence and come from that, you will achieve results and outcomes beyond your imagination. That is what Mark and Xtraordinary Outcomes help high performing individuals, teams and companies do.
Dr. Goulston’s specific focus is as a Fortune 500 High Stakes Executive Coach where he helps high performing executives to better maximize opportunities, deal with impending danger and confront and finally resolve conflcts that have been dogging them for months to years. He first trained as a clinical psychiatrist and then honed his skills as an FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer who increases people’s ability to get through to anyone.
His development of those skills started with his education: a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.D. from Boston University, post graduate residency in psychiatry at UCLA. He went on to be a professor at UCLA’s internationally renowned Neuropsychiatric Institute for more than twenty years, become a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (the highest award that organization offers) and was named one of America’s Top Psychiatrists for 2004-2005 and again in 2009 and 2010 by Washington, D.C. based Consumers’ Research Council of America.
He is the author of five books. His most recent book, “Just Listen” Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone, reached #1 in China and Germany and Amazon/kindle. He writes a Tribune syndicated career advice column, blogs for Business Insider, Fast Company, Huffington Post and Psychology Today. A partial list of companies he has worked with include: GE, Goldman Sachs, Xerox, Accenture, Ernst & Young, Cisco, Time Warner, Disney, ESPN, British Airways.
Visit Mark Goulston’s website at www.MarkGoulston.com
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Diane Katz PhD: Monday, October 31
, 2011
Dr. Katz has worked with organizations, professionals for over 40 years. With a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution from Union Institute, she has applied her education to organizations large and small.
Diane has spoken to groups across the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Canada. She has spoken about decision-making, conflict resolution, organization development, and professional development. She thoroughly engages her audiences with intelligence and wit.
After working in the New York City Board of Education, she went on to a business career, working for American Express, Chase, and KPMG. Her last corporate position was Vice President of Human Resources for Alexander & Alexander, where she was responsible for over 7,000 employees nationwide.
Dr. Katz started her consulting company, The Working Circle, in 1995. The Working Circle provides organizational development, human resources, teambuilding, training and coaching to organizations of all sizes. Some of her company’s clients have included Pricewaterhouse Coopers, The University of Arizona, Raytheon Missile Systems, U.S. Border Patrol, The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, Westin La Paloma Resort, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, DR Horton Homebuilders, YWCA of Southern Arizona, and The Leavitt Group.
The Working Circle®, the process that Diane developed in her Doctoral work, has gotten praise for its ease and ability to assist groups and individuals in making decisions and resolving conflicts. Clients have made critical professional decisions using the process, with minimal upset and lack of clarity.
Diane’s presentations are greeted with great enthusiasm. She presents challenging material with a clarity, lightness, and energy that is regularly given the highest of evaluations.
Visit Diane Katz’s website at www.TheWorkingCircle.com
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Timothy Ursiny PhD: Monday, October 24, 2011
Dr. Tim Ursiny, founder of Advantage Coaching & Training Inc., is a speaker and certified business coach specializing in helping individuals reach peak performance and life satisfaction. His areas of expertise include communication skills, team building, confidence, coaching skills, the psychology of change and the overall quality and balance in one’s life. He received his undergraduate degree from Wheaton College and his doctorate in psychology from Northern Illinois University. He is the member of the International Coach Federation and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches.
He has published several videos and books on the topics of coaching, conflict resolution, confidence in the workplace, and change. His book, “The Coward’s Guide to Conflict” is in its fourth printing and has been translated into four foreign languages. He has been interviewed and appeared in The Bottom Line, The Chicago Tribune, People Magazine, Readers Digest, First for Women and other periodicals. He has also appeared on CNN radio news, VH-1 News, Total Living and ABC Channel 7 News.
Dr. Tim Ursiny is also available for one on one coaching sessions. He can be reached at Advantage Coaching & Training, Inc., 480 East Roosevelt Rd., Suite 105, West Chicago, IL, 60185; phone: (630) 293-0210; email: drtim@advantagecoaching.com.
Visit Timothy Ursiny’s website at www.AdvantageCoaching.com
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Debra Reble PhD: Monday, October 17, 2011
Debra L. Reble, Ph.D., a Cleveland-based licensed psychologist, conducts a private practice and facilitates workshops and seminars on personal transformation and well-being.
She also is the founder of HeartPaths, a producer of materials inspiring full self-expression, and a director of Foundation in
Light, an international nonprofit educational organization furthering spiritual growth and self-realization.
In the provocative new model of relationship set forth in Soul-Hearted Partnership, longtime counselor Debra L. Reble, Ph.D., shows how dreams of amazing relationships come true when individuals cultivate first a soul partnership with themselves. Soul-Hearted Partnership lays the groundwork by presenting a series of spiritual principles for integrating body, heart, spirit, and soul and intertwining the combined energies with those of a loved one, while acknowledging the shared energy source.
Visit Debra Reble’s website at www.SoulHeartedPartnership.com
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Tom Crum: Monday, October 10
, 2011
Thomas Crum is an internationally acclaimed author, seminar leader, and martial artist. His books include The Magic of Conflict, Journey to Center, and Three Deep Breaths: Finding Power and Purpose in a Stressed-Out World.
Tom leads trainings for some of the world’s largest and most influential corporations as well as for governmental agencies and educational institutions. His work takes him to many hot spots of the world including Russia, Northern Ireland, and Africa, and he has co-led a session in Indonesia with the Dalai Lama.
Tom Crum is a peak performance coach working with executives as well as professional and amateur athletes. For people who love integrating learning with play, Tom offers “The Magic of Skiing” workshops in the winter, “The Magic of Golf” workshops in the summer, and “Journey to Center” workshops in the fall.
Tom’s work in conflict, stress, and peak performance is applicable to business, as well as to relationships, athletic performance, and family life. As you can see, Tom is not just “another talking head.”
As author Ken Blanchard says, “Tom Crum’s programs stand head and shoulders above all others,” or as Chicken Soup author Mark Victor Hansen, puts it, “I am deeply appreciative of Thomas Crum’s phenomenal talent, work and mastery. I want my entire team to take his training.”
Visit Tom Crum’s website at www.AikiWorks.com
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Jeffrey Gitterman: Monday, October 3, 2011
Jeff Gitterman is an award winning financial advisor and the CEO of Gitterman & Associates Wealth Management, LLC. www.gawmllc.com. He is also the co-founder of Beyond
Success, www.BeyondSuccessConsulting.com, a coaching and consulting company that brings more holistic ideas to the world of business and finance. His first book, Beyond Success; Redefining the Meaning of Prosperity, was recently published by the American Management Association (AMACOM).
Over the past several years, Jeff has been featured in Money Magazine, CNN, AM New York, Financial Advisor, Affluent Magazine, The Star Ledger, London Glossy, New Jersey Business Journal and News 12 New Jersey, among others. In 2004, he was honored by Fortune Small 
Business Magazine as “One of Our Nation’s Best Bosses.” Jeff also serves as chairman of the advisory board to the Autism Center of New Jersey Medical School, an organization that to date has raised over a million dollars for autism research and support services.
Visit Jeffrey Gitterman’s websites at www.BeyondSuccessConsulting.com and www.Gawmllc.com
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David Cortright: Monday, September 26, 2011
David Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute and Chair of the Board of the
Fourth Freedom Forum. The author or editor of 17 books, most recently Ending Obama’s War (forthcoming May 2011, Paradigm) and Towards Nuclear Zero (Routledge, IISS, 2010) he also is the editor of Peace Policy, Kroc’s online journal. He blogs at davidcortright.net.
Other recent works by Cortright include the 2nd edition of Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for a New Political Age (Paradigm, 2009), Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat (MIT Press, 2007), co-edited with George A. Lopez. Over the past decade, Cortright and Lopez have written or co-edited a series of major works on multilateral sanctions, including Smart Sanctions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Sanctions and the Search for Security (Lynne Rienner, 2002) and The Sanctions Decade (Lynne Rienner, 2000). Cortright also is editor of The Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
Cortright has written widely about nonviolent social change, nuclear disarmament, and the use of multilateral sanctions and incentives as tools of international peacemaking. He has provided research services to the foreign ministries of Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland, and has served as consultant or advisor to agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Cortright has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war. As an active duty soldier during the Vietnam War, he spoke against that conflict. In 1978, Cortright was named executive director of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, which under his leadership grew from 4,000 to 150,000 members and became the largest disarmament organization in the United States. He also was actively involved in the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s. In November 2002, he helped to create Win Without War, a coalition of national organizations opposing the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
After graduating with a B.A. in history from the University of Notre Dame in 1968, Cortright earned an M.A. degree in history from New York University. He completed doctoral studies in political science at the Union Institute in residence at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
Visit David Cortright’s website at www.DavidCortright.net.
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Michael Patterson: Monday, September 19, 2011
Michael Patterson, Ed.D. is Vice President of Business Development for Personal 
Strengths USA and co-author of Have a Nice Conflict: A Story of Finding Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places. Mike began his career as an U.S. Army officer and then spent 20 years in a variety of sales, marketing and training roles in the pharmaceutical industry culminating in his leadership of two comprehensive employee development programs. In addition to his work with organizational clients, Mike is an adjunct professor teaching in the doctoral program at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology. He lives with his wife and son in Aliso Viejo, CA.
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Susie Weller: Monday, September 12, 2011
With over 30 years experience in providing educational services, Susie coaches people how
to increase satisfying relationships both at home and at work. Susie has a B.A. in Communications through UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry through Seattle University, WA. As a Certified Thinking Styles Consultant through Herrmann International, Susie uses the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument to help people identify their preferred thinking styles. Also, she assists people in recognizing their dominant style under stress and conflict.
Susie is author of “Why Don’t You Understand? Improve Family Communication with the 4 Thinking Styles” (Parenting Press, 2009). Susie also balances brain research with practical applications for families and businesses. For 10 years, Suzie has experience as an Adjunct Parenting and Family Success Instructor for the Community Colleges of Spokane. As a Certified Life and Spiritual Coach through Cindy Wigglesworth, Suzie learned from someone that pioneered the first internationally validated spiritual assessment. Suzie Weller is an internationally known webinar presenter and speaker with clients from Australia to Sweden.
Visit Susie Weller’s website at www.SusieWeller.com
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Amanda Owen: Monday, September 5, 2011
Amanda Owen is an author, speaker, and consultant. She has been presenting lectures and workshops since the mid-eighties on a variety of topics in the spirituality, empowerment and self-improvement genres. Her research during the last twenty years into the nature of receptivity and its link to manifestation led her to develop a system that helps people manifest the lives they want by developing their capacity to receive.
She reports her findings in her latest book The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2010) N.Y. Times best-selling author Christiane Northrup, M.D. says, “The Power of Receiving is brilliant, elegant, profound and enormously practical.”
Visit Amanda Owen’s website at www.ThePowerofReceiving.com
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Brian Grossman, PhD: Monday, August 29, 2011
Brian Grossman, PhD, aka Dr. Brian, is a professional psychologist with a twist! He spent four years in prison (as a psychologist), and is currently a relationship expert, motivational speaker, and author of “Learning to Listen: Did you Hear What I Think I Said?”
Dr. Brian has worked with for-profits, non-profits and individuals at all levels, and has provided training for organizations from IBM to the IRS, from Goodwill Industries to the San Diego Zoo, and hundreds of others. But he’s most proud of his work with a most-difficult population — prison inmates. His efforts in training corrections officers in basic mental health practices helped reduce conflicts between officers and inmates, completely upended the rules governing the interactions between corrections officers and psychology departments, and increased state audit compliance from 20% to 98%.
In addition to his speaking work, he sits on the Advisory Board of Smooth Transition, Inc., a non-profit serving and empowering underprivileged at-risk populations through life skills development, educational and vocational training and mentorship to prevent re-entry to foster or judicial systems, poverty and homelessness.
Visit Brian Grossman’s website at http://drbriangrossman.com
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Douglas Noll: Monday, August 22, 2011
After a successful 22 year trial career, Doug decided that litigation was a wasteful way to resolve con
flicts, and earned his Masters Degree in Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. Since then, he has dedicated his life to mediation and peacemaking. Today, Doug is a nationally recognized mediator, trainer, and speaker. He has hosted a weekly radio show dedicated to giving a voice to international peacemakers for over five years. His current pro bono project is training murderers committed to life sentences in the largest women’s prison in the world to become peacemakers and mediators (go to www.prisonofpeace.org for more information this project).
Professionally, Doug is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and on the American Arbitration Association panel of mediators and arbitrators. Doug was one of the first U.S. mediators certified under the international mediator standards established by the International Mediation Institute based in The Hague, Netherlands.
He is an author of the books Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts (Prometheus, in press for release Spring 2011), Sex, Politics & Religion at the Office: The New Competitive Advantage (Auberry Press 2006), with John Boogaert, and Peacemaking: Practicing at the Intersection of Law and Human Conflict (Cascadia Publishing House 2002), and numerous chapters and articles on peacemaking, restorative justice, conflict resolution and mediation. He is a sought after mediator trainer, lecturer, speaker, and continuing education teacher. Doug has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America by U.S. News & World Report and is a Northern California Super Lawyer in Alternative Dispute Resolution. He has mediated over 1,500 conflicts, including business disputes, clergy sexual abuse cases, victim-offender criminal cases, and large litigated cases. His particular interest is in deep, intractable conflicts where emotions are running high.
As he became interested in international mediation efforts he observed that international mediators, for the most part, were inexperienced in the science and art of mediation. Their rookie mistakes were making things worse, often leading to genocide or further war. Unfortunately, political leaders, diplomats, special envoys, and retired generals are often appointed to a job for which they are not trained nor have sufficient aptitude. Elusive Peace shows why we can no longer afford to allow political, diplomatic, and military leaders mediate peace accords. They simply don’t know what they are doing.
Visit Douglas Nolls’ website at www.ElusivePeace.com
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Stephen Frueh, M.Div; PhD: Monday, August 15, 2011
Stephen is a coach and educator who has a passion for teaching people the fundamentals of effective relationships. He created the With These Rings model, working on it for over ten years, and expects to publish it this year.
Raised in the inner cities of New Jersey, Stephen is a high school dropout whose hunger for learning led him to earn a Master’s of Divinity (Theology) and a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Clinical Psychology. He has studied leadership with the BestWork People in San Francisco, CA, and regularly consults with organizations and businesses in leadership development.
Stephen has been a consultant to civic organizations, parent groups and schools and has spoken to groups across the country on relationships, leadership, personal success and self-esteem. He has actively participated in men’s gatherings for the past fifteen years as well as spoken at several events.
He brings passion and compassion to the challenges of relationship, the creation of ‘sustainable enthusiasm’ in marriage and the needs of families.
Visit Stephen Frueh’s website at http://marriageconversation.com
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Barbara Oakley, PhD: Monday, August 8, 2011
Dr. Barbara Oakley’s academic career came after a series of globetrotting adventures that got her dubbed “a
female Indiana Jones.” While knocking back tumblers of vodka with the captain of a Soviet fishing boat during the height of the Cold War, she was told, “You know too much, it’s time to kill you”— a rhyme in Russian.
Other exploits include rising from U.S. Army private to captain, during which Oakley was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar, and teaching in Qíqíhā’ěr, Manchuria—“the Red Chinese equivalent of Fargo, North Dakota, but with six million people,” she says. And she literally went to the end of the earth to find her husband, whom she met while working as a radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica.
Dr. Oakley is the author of the previous best-seller, Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend. Now, she takes the audience on a spellbinding voyage of personal discovery through the lens of a killing described in her new book, Cold-Blooded Kindness: Neuroquirks of a Codependent Killer, or Just Give Me a Shot at Loving You, Dear. Oakley brings extraordinary insight to our deepest questions. Is kindness always the right answer? Is kindness always what it seems?
A professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, Oakley is also is the editor of the forthcoming Pathological Altruism (Oxford University Press). One of the few women to hold a doctorate in systems engineering, Oakley is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, and a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – the world’s largest bioengineering organization. Her research highlights how neuroscience is informing our understanding of complex societal issues. Oakley has been at the forefront of efforts to expand the bioengineering profession and has won teaching-related awards from such organizations as the National Science Foundation. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times to the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience.
Harvard’s E.O. Wilson has called Oakley’s research “wonderful!” while National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates has called her writing “riveting and disturbing.”
Visit Barbara Oakley’s website at www.BarbaraOakley.com
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Violet P. Woodhouse, JD: Monday, August 1, 2011
Violet P. Woodhouse, noted author, lecturer, seminar presenter and consultant to the media in the areas of family
law and personal finance, is a foremost authority on the financial and tax aspects of divorce. A practicing family law attorney as well as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, she pioneered the development of financial analysis of property settlements for financial planners, and often acts as a consultant to divorcing spouses and their mediator during mediation.
Ms. Woodhouse is in private practice in Newport Beach, California, and has authored articles for the state and local bar associations and legal newspapers. Co-author of Nolo’s Divorce & Money, she has also written articles for or has been quoted in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Working Woman, Lear’s, Money Magazine and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine. Worth Magazine has named her one of the top 60 financial advisors in the nation.
Visit Violet Woodhouse’s website at www.VPWLaw.com
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J. Kim Wright, JD: Monday, July 25, 2011
J. Kim Wright wears a lot of hats, among them: lawyer, author, editor, systems thinker, public relations advocate, coach, consultant, teacher, and trainer. A graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, she has been licensed as a lawyer since 1989. She has been licensed in North Carolina since 1994.
Kim is a leader of a movement in law that is focused on collaboration, problem-solving, peace-making and healing conflict. In November of 2009, the ABA named Kim as one of the 50 Legal Rebels who are “finding new ways to practice law, represent their clients, adjudicate cases and train the next generation of lawyers.” The ABA also invited Kim to write a book and in April, 2010, Lawyers as Peacemakers, Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law was published. It was named one of the ABA’s Flagship Series and was on the ABA best-seller list for most of 2010. Kim is the founder, co-owner and the publisher and managing editor of www.cuttingedgelaw.com.
Visit J. Kim Wright’s website at www.CuttingEdgeLaw.com
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Ken Cloke, JD, LLM, Ph.D.: Monday, July 18, 2011
Kenneth Cloke, JD, LLM, PhD, is a mediator, arbitrator, coach, consultant and trainer specializing in resolving complex multi-party conflicts and designing conflict resolution systems.
He is the author of Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution; The 
Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey into the Heart of Dispute Resolution; and Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice, and Terrorism, and co-author with Joan Goldsmith of Resolving Conflicts at Work: 8 Strategies for Everyone on the Job; Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict: Stories of Transformation and Forgiveness; The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy, and The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work. Check out other books by Ken Cloke by CLICKING HERE.
He is an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law; University of Amsterdam ADR Institute; Saybrook University, Massey University (New Zealand) and Southern Methodist University. He has done conflict resolution in 20 countries and is founder and past President of Mediators Beyond Borders.
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William L. Ury: Monday, July 11, 2011
William L. Ury co-founded Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project. He is the author of The Power of a Positive 
No: How to Say No & Still Get to Yes and co-author (with Roger Fisher) of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, an eight-million-copy bestseller translated into over thirty languages. “No other book in the field comes close to its impact on the way practitioners, teachers, researchers, and the public approach negotiation,” comments the National Institute on Dispute Resolution. Ury is also author of the award-winning Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People and Getting To Peace (released in paperback under the title The Third Side.)
Over the last 30 years, Ury has served as a negotiation adviser and mediator in conflicts ranging from corporate mergers to wildcat strikes in a Kentucky coal mine to ethnic wars in the Middle East, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. With former president Jimmy Carter, he cofounded the International Negotiation Network, a non-governmental body seeking to end civil wars around the world. During the 1980s, he helped the US and Soviet governments create nuclear crisis centers designed to avert an accidental nuclear war. In that capacity, he served as a consultant to the Crisis Management Center at the White House. More recently, Ury has served as a third party in helping to end a civil war in Aceh, Indonesia, and helping to prevent one in Venezuela.
Ury has taught negotiation to tens of thousands of corporate executives, labor leaders, diplomats and military officers around the world. He helps organizations endeavor to reach mutually profitable agreements with customers, suppliers, unions, and joint-venture partners.
Ury is also co-founder of the e-Parliament (www.e-parl.net), which offers the 25,000 members of congress and parliament around the world an Internet-based forum in which they can learn from one another other about legislative solutions that work and together tackle global problems such as climate change, energy efficiency, and terrorism. His most recent project is the Abraham Path Initiative (www.abrahampath.org), which seeks to connect the human family step by step by creating a permanent route of cross-cultural tourism in the Middle East that retraces the footsteps of Abraham, the unifying figure of many faiths and peoples.
Ury is the recipient of the Whitney North Seymour Award from the American Arbitration Association and the Distinguished Service Medal from the Russian Parliament. His work has been widely featured in the media from The New York Times to the Financial Times and from ABC to the BBC.
Trained as a social anthropologist, with a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard, Ury has carried out his research on negotiation not only in the boardroom and at the bargaining table but also among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the clan warriors of New Guinea.
Visit William Ury’s website at www.WilliamUry.com
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Leonard Scheff: Monday, July 4
, 2011
S. Leonard Scheff is an AFT Board Member, a graduate of Boalt School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a practicing attorney in Tucson, Arizona. He is a Zen Buddhist and has attended several of the public teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama including the five day workshop in Tucson in 1993, and a more recent 2006 teaching.
He has organized his “Letting Go of Anger” seminar with input by John Tarrant Roshi since 1993. While the seminar is based on Buddhism through the teachings of the Dalai Lama, he believes these same principles are universal in all spiritual traditions. In addition, Mr. Scheff has attended and led numerous Gestalt Workshops.
Visit Leonard Scheff’s website at: www.TransformingAnger.com
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Anthony Campolo, Ph.D.: Monday, June 27
, 2011
Tony Campolo is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He previously served for ten years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Eastern College and earned a Ph.D. from Temple University.
Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (EAPE), Dr. Campolo has worked to create, nurture and support programs for “at-risk” children in cities across North America, and has helped establish schools and universities in several developing countries.
Dr. Campolo is a media commentator on religious, social and political matters, having guested on television programs like The Colbert Report, Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect, The Charlie Rose Show, Larry King Live, CNN Dayside, CNN News and MSNBC News. He co-hosted his own television series, Hashing It Out, on the Odyssey Network, and presently hosts Across The Pond, a weekly program on the Premier Christian Radio Network in England. He is also a highly respected and sought after guest on radio stations across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Dr. Campolo speaks about 350 different times each year around the world for a wide variety of groups including churches, colleges, youth groups and the business community. He is the author of 38 books. Dr. Campolo is an ordained minister, has served American Baptist Churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is presently recognized as an associate pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia. Dr. Campolo and his wife, Peggy, live in the Philadelphia area and have two grown children and four grandchildren.
Visit Tony Campolo’s website at: www.TonyCampolo.com
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Nancy Dreyfus: Monday, June 20, 2011
Nancy Dreyfus, Psy.D. has been a highly respected psychotherapist, couples therapist and clinical su
pervisor in the Philadelphia area for over 25 years. She is considered a major thinker and crusader in bringing emotional literacy into the mainstream, and her recent book, Talk To Me Like I’m Someone You Love: Relationship Repair in a Flash (Tarcher/Penguin 2010) was cited as “one of the 24 brainstorms of the planet” in an Utne Reader cover story and has been a top contender in the current Next Brilliant Idea for Humanity contest. Dr. Dreyfus has developed a way of using written messages to get combative, defensive or otherwise disconnected couples back to “friendly”–and often “mature”–in a matter of minutes.
In addition to getting her doctorate in clinical psychology at Hahnemann Medical College, Dr. Dreyfus is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and a former prizewinning investigative reporter. Her life took a dramatic turn when what started out as an exposé of a spiritual group had her turning inward, heading for a life as a meditation teacher, and giving up a job offer at The New York Times.
This personal transformation had Dr. Dreyfus fascinated with the way internal shifts actually impact our outer world more than the crusades she was used to. She has studied, taught and integrated mainstream psychological approaches with the principles of The Secret, and in fact, for many years taught a class called The Suburban Mystic, bringing metaphysics to Main Line soccer moms and businessmen. In Talk To Me Like I’m Someone You Love, Dr. Dreyfus makes practical her belief that staying connected to your own vulnerability will put your relationship on a more loving, intimate–and saner–track.
Nancy Dreyfus’ thinking has been cited in The Utne Reader, Harper-Collins 500 Ways to Change the World, The Global Ideas Bank, Spirituality and Health, The Journal of Couples Therapy and mainstream publications like Redbook and Glamour. John Gottman, Ph.D. the respected marital researcher credits her with stimulating some of his own thinking on the nature of human repair mechanisms. He reports that the happiest couples naturally infuse their arguing with the kind of messages Dreyfus is intelligently teaching the world to use.
Visit Nancy Dreyfus’ website at: www.NancyDreyfus.com
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Chaney Weiner: Monday, June 13, 2011
Chaney Weiner is a sought after authority on human potential and personal development. He is the founder of the Chaney Institute of Human Potential, an organization dedicated to empowering people worldwide in all seven areas of life (Financial, physical, family, mental, spiritual, vocational, and social) by helping them discover their hidden brilliance and uniqueness based on what is most important to them.
An acknowledged transformational leader and a leading expert on success and raising human potential, Chaney has inspired millions of people around the world, sharing his breakthrough methods for personal and professional success in the seven different areas of life. Chaney is often approached by the media for his inspiring insights and advice. His work has been featured on Montel Across America with Montel Williams, Hollywood Confidential with Leeza Gibbons, Hay House Radio and on hundreds of radio shows throughout the world.
Visit Chaney Weiner’s website at: www.ChaneyWeiner.com
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William W. Purkey, EdD: Monday, June 6, 2011
Dr. Purkey is Professor Emeritus of Counselor Education, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Co-Founder of the International Alliance for Invitational Education. His professional career includes service as a public school teacher, as a United States Park Ranger, as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist in the United States Air Force, and as a university professor.
During his teaching career, Dr. Purkey has received the University of Florida Award for Instructor Excellence, the Standard Oil Foundation Good Teaching Award, and the Outstanding Teacher Award presented by the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership honor society. In 1997 Dr. Purkey received the highest award for teaching given by the University of North Carolina System: The Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Purkey is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award, given by the School of Education, University of Virginia, and the Professional Development Award presented by the American Consulting Association. More recently in 2005, Dr. Purkey received the Royal Conservatory of Music Excellence in Education Award for his work in encouraging learning through the arts.
A prolific writer, Dr. Purkey has authored or co-authored over 90 professional articles, and nine books.
Visit the International Alliance for Invitational Education website at: www.invitationaleducation.net
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Dr. Ani Kalayjian: Monday, May 30, 2011
Dr. Ani Kalayjian is a psychology professor, American Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, logotherapeutic psychotherapist, traumatologist, Genocide Scholar, conflict resolution expert, researcher, community organizer, and international consultant. She has over twenty years of experience in disaster management, 
mass-trauma interventions & conflict resolution; twenty years of university teaching experience and has been a psychotherapist in practice in both NY/NJ for 25 yrs.
Since 1990, Dr. Kalayjian has been actively involved at the United Nations, pursuing the human right of children, trauma survivors, women, and refugees. She is founder and President of the Armenian American Society for Studies on Stress and Genocide; President of the Int. Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, NY Chapter (1993-2003); Chair of the World Federation for Mental Health Human Rights Committee(1995-2004), C
o-Founder, Past President & Board member of the Global Society for Nursing and Health (1998-2004), Founder & President of Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention, Treasurer, APA International Division (2004-2009), Program Chair APA 2004 International. Division, Hawaii. She is the Founder of the Mental Health Outreach Program (MHOP) to the Republic of Armenia, providing psychological emergency care, managing the program, as well as conducting research. Dr. Kalayjian implemented MHOP later in Japan, Kuwait, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Sri Lanka post tsunami, Pakistan post earthquake of 10/8/2005, & Lebanon, Armenia, & Sierra Leone post war. She conducts workshops around the world healing the wounds of generationally transmitted trauma of wars, Genocides & Holocaust.
Dr. Kalayjian has presented her research papers, conducted workshops, and chaired panel discussion nationwide. Internationally, her research papers have been presented in over 30 countries.
Visit Dr. Ani Kalayjian’s website at: www.meaningfulworld.com
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Judge Jon Memmott, Arbinger Institute: Monday, May 23, 2011
Jon Memmott is a retired District Court Judge (18 years) and Adjunct Professor teaching Employment Law at BYU Marriott School (31years). He joined Arbinger in 2010 as General Counsel and is a Member/Manager of the Arbinger Institute and Arbinger Conflict Resolution Services LLC which offers services to Legal, Judicial, Mediation, Law Enforcement, Military, and Correctional professionals and organizations. Jon also serves as General Counsel for ThomasArts. He has prior experience in private practice, as Legislative General Counsel for the Utah Legislature and Chief of Staff/Legal Counsel for Governor Bangerter. He was in private practice representing various governmental, business and private organizations. His eighteen years of judicial work includes over 175 jury trials and over 1,000 bench trials and approximately 300 mediations in civil, criminal, tax, and domestic areas of the law. Jon has developed a mediation and arbitration practice in partnership with Arbinger. Judge Memmott graduated from Arizona State University Law School and has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Arizona State University and a Master’s Degree in Management from Brigham Young University.
The Arbinger Institute is a worldwide institute that helps corporate and non-corporate organizations, families, individuals, and communities to solve the problems that have been created by the pervasive but little-known problem of self-deception (the problem of not knowing and resisting the possibility that one has a
problem). Arbinger’s first book, Leadership and Self-Deception, quickly became an international bestseller. Launched with no fanfare when Arbinger (and its work) was little known, the book generated tremendous word-of-mouth momentum. Sales of the book continue to grow at an increasing rate even today. Since Leadership and Self-Deception was published, many readers have clamored for a book that explores Arbinger’s work more deeply and that applies that work more explicitly to issues outside the workplace as well as within. The Anatomy of Peace was written for this purpose and out of a desire to help resolve conflicts large and small that burden families, workplaces, and communities. Headquartered in the United States, Arbinger now has operations in many countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Israel, South Africa, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Bermuda, and Canada.
Visit the Arbinger Institute’s website at: www.arbinger.com
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David J. Smith, United States Institute of Peace: Monday May 16, 2011
David J. Smith is the national educational outreach officer at the United States Institute of Peace. He coordinates institute-wide educational outreach and public programming efforts. Smith works closely with educational and professional associations, academic institutions, and public groups to promote institute objectives. He speaks frequently to community, faculty and student groups on a variety of issues including civil society and peacebuilding, child soldiers, conflict resolution education and international education.
Before joining the institute in 2005, his work focused on teaching at the college and university level. As a Fulbright scholar, Smith taught peace studies and alternative dispute resolution at the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia. He has also taught at the undergraduate level at Harford Community College, Goucher College, Towson University, and Stevenson University, and at the graduate level at George Mason University. Through USIP, he has traveled widely around the U.S. consulting with colleges and universities on approaches to teaching peace. He has also worked in the fields of domestic and community conflict resolution, and as a practicing attorney. He has lectured on American mediator practice at Uppsala University in Sweden and the University of Jammu in India. Smith currently serves on the Rockville, Maryland Human Rights Commission and has published in the International Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and Chronicle of Higher Education. Smith holds a B.A. in political science and urban affairs from the American University School of Public Affairs, an M.S. from the George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan institution established and funded by Congress to increase the nation’s capacity to manage international conflict without violence. The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is transforming approaches to international conflict. USIP draws on a variety of resources in fulfilling its congressional mandate: staff, grantees, fellows, research, education, training, innovation, outreach, publications, and national and international partnerships
Visit the United States Institute of Peace website at: www.usip.org
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Paula Garb: Monday, May 9, 2011
Paula Garb is Co-Director and co-founder of UC Irvine’s Center for Citizen Peacebuilding. She is a lecturer in anthropology, director of the minor in conflict resolution, and director of the minor in civic and community engagement at the University of California, Irvine. She is a facilitator and researcher of citizen peacebuilding projects.
Garb spent 17 years living and working in Moscow, where she received her M.A. in anthropology from Moscow State University and later completed her doctorate in anthropology from the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Anthropology. She ultimately secured a job as a field producer for CBS News in Moscow, where she worked until she came to UCI in 1991.
After returning to live and work in the U.S. she has studied the mobilization of activists around environmental problems associated with the nuclear weapons complex in Russia and the role of citizen initiatives in the ethnic conflicts of the Caucasus. Since 1995, with funding from the University of California, the JAMS Foundation, United Nations Development Programme, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, USAID, and the Winston Foundation for World Peace, she has been promoting citizen peacebuilding activities and research. Her primary project has focused on facilitating and studying peacebuilding efforts between Abkhaz and Georgian academics, journalists, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, and politicians.
In 1999 she initiated a coordination network of peacebuilding projects and organizations working in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, and continues to foster the network. Garb has been using her long-term and in-depth experience and research data from the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict to examine and compare how citizens are helping to resolve disputes in other conflict zones, such as Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Middle East, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland. She draws on these experiences for courses in conflict resolution that she teaches for UCI students and Los Angeles gang intervention workers. Her work has also led to a number of publications in academic and other journals.
Visit Paula Garb’s website at: www.ccpb.org
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Bill Wilmot, Ph.D.: Monday, May 2, 2011
Bill specializes in conflict and mediation, especially in the workplace, is Director of the Collaboration 
Institute, and an Advanced Practitioner with the Association for Conflict Resolutio
n. He has intervened in over 400 disputes and helped diverse organizations over the past 25 years with a variety of issues. His major conflict publications are the co-authored Interpersonal Conflict, 8th edition and Artful Mediation. the Interpersonal conflict book has made a major impact on understanding how conflict originates and what practical steps one can take.
Bill has an active local 
and international practice having worked with clients from Italy, Finland, Switzerland, South Africa, Spain, Japan, Belgium, Sweden, Taiwan, England, Singapore, New Zealand, Denmark and the U.S. Bill was one of the key architects of the 5 Disciplines of Innovation workshops, where he specializes in team issues, and he is co-author, with Curt Carlson, CEO of SRI International of Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want.
Visit Bill Wilmot’s website at: www.collaborationinstitute.com
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Gary Harper: Monday, April 18, 2011
Gary Harper is the principal of Harper and Associates. He is a trainer, writer and facilitator who specializes in conflict resolution. Through his unique blend of experience as a personal in
jury lawyer, general manager, insurance regulator and retail store owner, he learned the value of clear communication and conflict resolution skills. Since 1991 he has trained and mediated in a wide variety of organizations – from health care to the film industry to many levels of government.
He is a member of the instructional team of the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the Justice Institute of B. C. and recently authored The Joy of Conflict Resolution: Transforming Victims, Villains and Heroes in the Workplace and at Home.
Visit Gary Harper’s website at: www.joyofconflict.com
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Andrew Oser: Monday April 11, 2011
A coach and trainer since 1970, Andrew Oser has helped more than 50,000 children and adults to express their highest potential. Currently, through his business, Summit Coaching Services, he offers life and executive coaching sessions, as well as seminars and retreats.
As the Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Joy of Sports Foundation, he developed and ran programs which served more than 50.000 at-risk children across the United States. His work with the Joy of Sports Foundation was recognized as a Point of Light by the White House.
Andrew has spoken and given workshops throughout North America and Asia, and has conducted seminars for major corporations such as General Dynamics and HBO. He is the author of The Joy of Tennis and Star Power for Preschoolers, and the recently published How Alternation Can Change Your Life. Mr. Oser is a summa cum laude graduate of PrincetonUniversity.
Visit Andrew Oser’s website at: http://www.summitcoachingservices.net
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