My offering to you is 30 years experience in training, management, customer service, strategic planning, business and leadership
development, I have led mens' groups in Russia, won multi-million dollar contracts from Fortune 500 corporations, started
companies, and negotiated large contracts, including one collective-bargaining contract in health care worth half a billion dollars
and been CEO of the largest Physician's Association in the America.   I have worked for, and been well trained by, some of the
best profit and non-profit companies in America.  Additionally, I am an experienced non-denominational minister, officiating
weddings and funerals when called to do so.

My strength is in facilitating communication and problem-solving to win practical outcomes, while enhancing  working relationships
within organizations and between disputants.  I do this by focusing on NEEDS, not just wants.   Extensive mediation experience
includes community, family and the workplace.  I have led men's groups focused on understanding anger and fear, and a "feeling
man's" place in the family and society in the United States and in Russia, with a specialization in survivors of trauma and physical
and emotional abuse.

With a Master of Science degree in Conflict Resolution focusing on the role that respect plays in the escalation and de-
escalation of conflict, and in communication generally, I am well trained to ensure good mediation, negotiation, and facilitation
outcomes.  I have extensive experience and studies in multi-cultural, human and organizational development.  All of my seminars
and consulting sessions are focused around considering and enhancing respect to ensure enduring agreements.  Without
respect there can be no trust. Without trust there can be no safety. Without safety there can be no communication.  Without
communication there can be no lasting agreement.

BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
  • Mediation & Negotiation including high-stakes collective bargaining
  • Strategic Planning
  • Executive Coaching
  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail & Wholesale
  • Sales & Marketing Management
  • Customer Service
  • Non-profit Governance
  • Sales Management and Training
  • Leadership & Leadership Training
  • UCLA Entrepreneurial Management Training (Anderson School of Management)
  • Resume

EDUCATION
  • Master of Science: Conflict Resolution - Specialty: Kantian "Respect for Persons" and the psychology and philosophy of
    conflict and conflict management
  • Bachelor of Science: Philosophy - Specialty:  Ethics, Human Rights and Globalization
  • Bachelor of Arts:  Human Development (Pending completion) - Specialty: Organizational and Spiritual Development
  • UCLA Anderson School of Management - Graduate Certificate (Management & Business Development) - November, 2010
  • Graduate Studies - American Indian Studies - University of Arizona, Specialty:  Native American Religion and Warfare
  • Life Sciences - University of California at Berkeley
  • Philosophy - Universidad de las Americas, Cholula, Mexico, International Rugby team player
  • National Dean's List
  • Two years study of Arabic language, some Spanish and Russian
  • Classical studies:  ancient warfare and peacemaking

CERTIFICATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS (Past and Present)
  • Workplace Mediation
  • Negotiation
  • Lead Hazards Risk Assessor and Childhood Lead Poisoning Educator
  • Diabetes Educator
  • Shiatsu and Transformational Massage & Bodywork:  Specialty:  Trauma and abuse survivors
  • American Philosophical Association
  • Oregon Mediation Association
  • Certified Professional in Disability Management  - CPDM I
  • Ordained Minister - Inter-denominational - weddings and end of life process pastoral services

NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER
  • Northwest Institute for Conflict Resolution (NICR) - Portland State University - Co-Founder
  • Dolphin Boating and Swim Club - San Francisco, CA - Board Member
  • Senior Access, Adult Day Health Center - San Rafael, CA (Alzheimer's) - Board Member - Fund raising
  • YMCA - Board - Elkhart, IN - Chair of Marketing Committee - Fund raising
  • Oregon Self-Insurers Association - Conference Committee Member
  • Oregon Medical Case Managers Group - Marketing Committee Chair, Conference planning
  • Bread and Roses - Volunteer and Executive Facilitator - Mill Valley, CA
  • Alzheimer's Association - North Bay Chapter
  • Oregon OSHA - Conference Committee
  • Oregon Health Forum - Conference Planning and Moderator
  • Co-founder - Four Winds Ropes Course for team building and organizational development

AVOCATIONS
Open water swimming in the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz swimmer and regular participant in the Polar Bear Challenge, swimming
at least 40 - 60 miles during the winter.  The picture on the Contact page shows a Loch Lomond, Scotland swim in March (38
degrees F water).   Currently writing three books, including one on team-building, one on respect as a fundamental human need,
and a sci-fi/fantasy.  

Testimonial Letters:
Providence Health Plan
Dr. Jody Pettit
Farrell B.
April W. MFT

Writing

Published:
Finding Your Voice - 1996  Journey Books
Learning To Roll - 1996  Journey Books
Surrender - 1994  Journey Books
Trust - 1994  Journey Books
The Mythic Journey - 1995  Journey Books
Master's Thesis:  Respect:  Implications for Conflict Resolution Practice and Procedure - 2009

Unpublished:
Hozho:  The Dine' (Navajo) Concept of Balance and Beauty - 2004, Univ. of Arizona American Indian Studies Graduate Program
T. R. I. C. K. Team Building Theory - 2000
Unlearning Racism - 1995
Rene's Dream: A Classical Interpretation - 1997
Bullies: Understanding the Beast (Newspaper Op-ed)  April, 2010
Growing Up In A War Zone - 2009
Substance Monism & Monadology:  A Comparison of Spinoza and Leibniz - 2001
"Spaceship" or "Lifeboat" Ethics?  The Fallacy of "The Tragedy of the Commons"
Renee's Dream:  A "Classical" Representation of Descarte's Proof of the Existence of Self

                                                                    
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