In addition to being an MTI Master Trainer, Will Luera is the Director of Improvisation at Florida Studio Theatre, Director of Big Bang Improv and serves as the Artistic Director Emeritus of ImprovBoston. Will also provides corporate training for companies all over the world using the tools of improvisation as a way to teach leadership, conflict resolution, active listening, and team building. Some of his clients include Google, Harvard University, The United States Department of State among others. Will is also a co-creator of Healing Moments for Alzheimer’s, a non-profit organization that provides education advocacy and ministry for persons with… Continue Reading Will Luera
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Lynn Litow Flayhart is a leadership and organizational development consultant with over 35 years experience. She specializes in executive coaching; leadership assessment for selection, development and succession planning; organizational assessment and development; culture assessment and change management; team building; strategic and business planning; facilitation; and, mediation. As a former practitioner in counseling and psychotherapy and founder and leader of a successful consulting firm, Lynn uses her extensive background and expertise to enable her clients to clearly identify their challenges and develop sustainable strategies to grow and achieve their goals. With an emphasis on transferring knowledge, she works with her clients… Continue Reading Lynn Litow Flayhart
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Kim Faircloth, PhD, ICF-ACC, SHRM-SCP, SPHR has twenty-five plus years of leadership development, executive coaching, management, and professional human resources experience.  Service as an Ombudsman, Mediator, Workforce Strategies Consultant, Trainer, and Director of both Human Resources and Education & Training Departments give her a very practical perspective on integrating conflict management initiatives into employee engagement programs.  Dr. Faircloth’s degrees are in Human Resources Management and Organizational Leadership. Her dissertation was on the topic of mediation and she has coached thousands of employees on addressing interpersonal conflict while promoting productive conflict skills necessary for innovation.  She is formally trained by the… Continue Reading Kim Faircloth
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Erika Deines is a Chartered Mediator, Conflict Coach and certified Consultant in Workplace Mediation. She is President of D&A | Deines & Associates, a workplace dispute resolution (DR) service provider, registered in Alberta and B.C. Over the past eighteen years, Erika has been mediator and group-facilitator for several hundred mediations of organizational and governmental nature, First Nations workplace issues, as well as family, divorce and parent-teen matters. She has facilitated municipal bylaw task forces, town hall meetings for community developments, conducted PADRs (preliminary alternative-DR meetings) for landowners in dispute with the energy sector, and consumer complaints for the Better Business… Continue Reading Erika Deines
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Ms. Thompson and Dr. Roe are certified Consultants in Workplace Mediation with MTI and certified trainers of MTI’s seminars in Third-Party Resolutions and Successful Conflict Conversations. Barbara’s background includes extensive mediation training and she is a founding partner and consultant in The Discovery Group, a partnership of consulting professionals that provides consulting, coaching, and training, in the personal and interpersonal competencies that produce measurable results in workplace performance. She has consulted with and trained for major companies and a variety of small businesses, from closely-held family companies to non-profit and educational institutions. Dr. Roe ‘s background includes training in Essentials of Mediation and Divorce Mediation,… Continue Reading Barbara Thompson and John Roe
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Rebecca Armacost has had a distinguished career with over twenty-five years of experience as an executive and senior leader in Global Human Resource Management and Organizational Development. Most recently, Rebecca served as the Vice President of People & Culture for a non-profit service agency and as Head of HR for a financial services start-up. She now functions as the Founder and CEO of AmaniHR, a boutique HR Consulting company with a mission to develop organizations by focusing on people. Through AmaniHR, Rebecca serves as the HR Executive, Chief People Officer or HR Consultant for various small and medium-sized clients in… Continue Reading Rebecca Armacost
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Lynda’s extensive experience in public and private sector human resource development includes more than 3,500 hours of consulting interventions (including mediation interventions), instructional development and platform training. Lynda, a retired Full Colonel, is a 26-year veteran of the U.S. Army, where she attended the Army’s Organizational Effectiveness School (the Army’s equivalent of organization development) and its Equal Opportunity School. She has consulted at all organizational levels within government and private industry, ranging from strategic initiatives to production line problem solving, and has served as an Equal Opportunity/Equal Employment Opportunity case manager at the Federal level. In addition to working in… Continue Reading Lynda Mann
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Dr. Roe is a certified Consultant in Workplace Mediation with MTI and a certified trainer of MTI’s seminars in Third-Party Resolutions and Successful Conflict Conversations. His mediation training background includes 40 hours of training in Essentials of Mediation and Divorce Mediation and 16 hours of additional training in Advanced Mediation from the Northern California Mediation Center. He has also completed 40 hours of Mediator Training with Rosenberg Mediation Services and 16 hours of Trainer Certification in Managing Workplace Conflict, with Mediation Training Institute International. Additionally, John has completed 24 hours of Conflict Coaching and Mediation Training with Peacemaker Ministries and 14… Continue Reading John Roe
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Ms. Thompson is a certified Consultant in Workplace Mediation with MTI and a certified trainer of MTI’s seminars in Third-Party Resolutions and Successful Conflict Conversations. Barbara’s mediation training includes 40 hours of training in Essentials of Mediation and Divorce Mediation and 16 hours of additional training in Advanced Mediation from the Northern California Mediation Center. She has also completed 40 hours of Mediator Training with Rosenberg Mediation Services and 16 hours of Trainer Certification in Managing Workplace Conflict, with Mediation Training Institute International. Additionally, Barbara has completed 24 hours of Conflict Coaching and Mediation Training with Peacemaker Ministries and 14 hours… Continue Reading Barbara Thompson
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