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Learn how to turn adversaries into partners through an unconventional approach to negotiation and conflict management.

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Together we:

 

1. Develop a framework for negotiation success

2. Examine effective techniques that will help you create value

3. Discover what to do when you are overpowered, stonewalled, or face a tough bargaining opponent

4. Prepare to negotiate more skilfully, confidently and effectively

Through a non-traditional approach to mediation, parties are empowered to work together, to uncover the real issues beneath the conflict that has brought them to a point of impasse.

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In a process that gives parties transparency and control over how to best resolve their dispute, I help people:

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1. Open effective roads of communication

2. Understand the underlying issues that are blocks to resolving their conflict

3. Identify interests as the framework for constructing creative win-win solutions

 

 

Bess has trained as a mediator at the Harvard University Program on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

An inspiring, engaging and dynamic speaker, with a wide range of experience in negotiation and conflict resolution, Bess speaks passionately about paving roads to ‘yes’ through conflict in a way that leaves everyone involved empowered, both emotionally and practically.

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Sharing her experiences through years in high-level ‘warfare’ in the courtroom and high-stakes ‘diplomacy’ in business, she dissects the propensity of our human nature in the face of conflict, and its often, catastrophic impact.

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In her compelling talks, Bess deconstructs the underpinnings of conflict, and shares invaluable tools to skilfully navigate and resolve it.