Mediator Search
Michael Nathanson michael_cadcorp@sbcglobal.net
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Cadwallader Corporation
IL
Phone: 312-664-8375
Fax: 312-664-8375
Michael Nathanson is the president of Cadwallader Corporation which has provided ADR to families, governments, and businesses for 24 years. In this capacity he has served as an advisor to a hospital mediation program, an ombudsman for the U. S. Department of Defense, and an online mediator for Square Trade. He is adjunct professor of law at Chicago-Kent and Loyola Law Schools. He teaches Mediation and Child and Family Law Mediation. Previously he taught the U.S. Healthcare Policy course in the Graduate Policy Department at DePaul University, and taught Public Health to physicians at The Johns Hopkins University where he was on the full time faculty of the Department of Public Health.
Michael has mediated over 2000 cases in a variety of areas, including, but not limited to, community (civil, criminal, child abuse/neglect, juvenile), business/finance, eldercare, employment/discrimination, family/divorce, inheritance, internal corporate disputes, medical, partnership, religious institutions, and science/technology. In over 100 facilitative mediation trainings he helped train/certify over 2,000 people, primarily lawyers. He has done design trainings for many companies such as Accenture and BP Amoco. The neutral panels he has been on are: the American Arbitration Association, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, IRS, the National Health Lawyers Association, the U.S. Postal Service, the Center for Conflict Resolution, the Chicago Bar Association, and the State of Illinois Special Education Mediation panel.
In 2002 Michael received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mediation Council of Illinois to recognize his work in promoting family mediation in Illinois.
He is a certified public accountant and a certified environmental professional. From the University of Chicago he received a B.S. and an M.S. in geophysics, an MBA in finance, and a Ph.D. in population ecology. His publications are on biological models of competition and cooperation. His substantive knowledge is in business/finance, healthcare and science.
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Herman Bingham hbbingham@comcast.net
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1191 Halfmoon Gate
Lake in the Hills,
IL
60156
Phone: (847) 854-5579
Resume: Herman Bingham resume
HERMAN BINGHAM, trainer, assessor and coach has fifteen year's ADR experience in a large, diverse and multi-union company. He mediates workplace conflicts exclusively and also provides disputants with pre-mediation preparation and in-session conflict resolution coaching.
Herman is former Manager, EEO Dispute Resolution for the US Postal Service's Chicago District, where he directed its REDRESS® program. Recognized in 2007 for ensuring the quality of transformative mediation services to over 30,000 postal employees, Herman continues to train and coach mediators who want to practice transformative mediation with consistency and confidence.
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Kate Phelps
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149 Centre Street #2
Roxbury,
MA
02119
Kate Phelps holds a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in Dispute Resolution from the University of MA in Boston. Kate has been practicing mediation for nine years. She currently is a Human Resource Manager at Industrial Economics in Cambridge, MA.
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Louise Phipps Senft Louise@baltimoremediation.com
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4502 Schenley Road
Baltimore,
MD
21210
Phone: 443/929-0223
Fax: 443/929-0850
Website: www.BaltimoreMediation.com
Resume: Louise Phipps Senft resume
Louise Phipps Senft, voted "Baltimore's Best" Mediator by Baltimore Magazine 2002 and named one of "Maryland's Top 100 Women" for the year 2004 by The Daily Record, founded the Baltimore Mediation Center in 1993, the first mediation firm in Maryland. In 2006, BMC was expanded and renamed Louise Phipps Senft and Associates/Baltimore Mediation. The firm offers collaborative decision-making facilitation, mediation and conflict resolution services and training, all from the transformative framework. Ms. Senft designs and delivers training in conflict resolution and transformation and mediation for professionals, court systems, families, companies, contractors, real estate management firms, hospitals, assisted living facilities, higher education, agencies and civic organizations and boards. Ms. Senft, also a law professor, has trained, provided workshops and mediation and facilitation services to thousands of individuals in family, employment, business, board, non-profit, church, university and government and agency settings. She writes a monthly column for The Daily Record, The Negotiating Table: Turning Problems into Opportunities. Ms. Senft's work with families and family businesses is featured in the documentary, Resolutionary People (2002), produced by Emmy award winner Richard Chisolm. Ms. Senft's work with corporate and public policy multiparty facilitation is featured in the book the Promise of Mediation (Jossey-Bass, 2004). She is also an elected member of Network 2000. She is a pioneer for transformative mediation for separation and divorce and for business conflicts. She is one of the originators of "marital mediation" for couples in conflict wishing to preserve their marriages while making difficult decisions, and for "team mediation" for business executives and managers wishing to maintain productivity while working through difficult personality and other differences. Ms. Senft is a featured faculty member for Harvard's Program on Negotiation Insight Initiative for CEO's and executives worldwide in Summer 2007.
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John Roberts PhD johnjroberts@somdwireless.com
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634 Runabout Loop
Solomons,
MD
20688
Phone: (410) 394-1647
I mediate through my private practice, Mediation Services of Southern
Maryland, LLC, and as a volunteer for the Community Mediation Centers of St.
Mary\'s and Calvert Counties. I am the founder and Executive Director of the
St. Mary\'s center.
I have found that the transformative mediation framework works very
effectively for my clients over a very wide range of disputes from child
custody to employment issues to claims and torts. Since invariably each
dispute involves a measure of both emotional and factual elements, the
transformative approach lets me help the participants find both process and
content that work for them.
I believe a mediator needs to have a general understanding of the topics
that the participants may wish to address in a mediation so that he can
understand what they are saying and comfortably reflect and summarize the
salient issues. However, I do not believe the mediator needs to be an
expert in the topic in dispute; that\'s the sole responsibility of the
participants and their advisors.
Though education (Ph.D. in Engineering), professional experience in
applied-technology research and management, over twelve years as
owner/manager of a small business, over two hundred fifty hours of mediation
training, trainer and coach, nine years of active practice as a mediator,
and mediation of nearly one thousand cases, I am comfortable mediating a
wide array of issues.
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Vicki and Dusty Rhoades dustyvicki@comcast.net
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5721 Highland Lane
Sunderland,
MD
20689
Phone: 301-855-7048 (H)
Cell: 301-520-8746 (C-Dust
Resume: Vicki and Dusty Rhoades resume
Vicki and Dusty Rhoades have been partners in life for 40 years and co-mediators in the transformative framework for the past seven. The majority of their experience has been as volunteer mediators and Board Members of the Community Mediation Centers of St. Mary's and Calvert Counties, Maryland. They were instrumental in founding both Centers. Their mediation experience includes cases involving family, community, District and Circuit Court, discrimination (Maryland Commission on Human Relations), and foster care (Children in Need of Assistance) situations.
They have been fortunate to have trained with leaders in the field of transformative mediation, including: Baruch Bush, Joe Folger, Louise Phipps Senft, Nancy Good Sider, Tom Wahlrab and Irv Foster. They have attended and presented at conferences and mediator gatherings and participated as trainers and coaches at numerous transformative mediation and facilitation trainings.
Vicki and Dusty feel it's a privilege to work with people in conflict, supporting their efforts to share constructive conversations. Creating a safe space and sharing it with people who are experiencing some of the most difficult times of their lives can be challenging, but it is also rewarding. Helping participants hear themselves and each other, gain clarity, and open up to the possibility of connection and conflict transformation is an uplifting experience. Whether the participants find shared understanding, agreement, or simply better awareness of their needs, the opportunity to support their efforts to improve the quality of their conflict interaction is immensely satisfying.
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David C. Webb
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15 Rocky Hill Drive
Brunswick,
ME
04011
David Webb is a mediator at Youth Alternatives, a youth services organization in Maine. He received his BA in 1983 and completed his JD in 1989. David practices law in the State of Maine. He has three year experience as a mediator and has completed over 600 mediations.
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Christine Curci
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168 Range Road
Cumberland,
ME
04021
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Dan Simon, MA, J.D. Dan@twincitiesmediation.com
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1716 West Lake Street
Minneapolis,
MN
55408
Phone: 612-824-8988
Fax: 612-824-8988 (call f
Cell: 612-834-0674
Website: twincitiesmediation.com
Dan Simon has been the director of Twin Cities Mediation since he founded it in 1998. Dan helps with divorces, parenting differences, real estate issues, employment cases, business disputes, and neighbor to neighbor conflicts. Dan's advanced training in psychology and law allows him to help with all aspects of conflict. Minnesota Law and Politics featured Dan Simon in the February 2000 issue, calling his process "a kinder gentler mediation." The St. Paul Pioneer Press profiled Dan in 2003 as "the man in the middle." As a teacher and practitioner of the transformative approach, Dan Simon helps parties have a constructive conversation about their differences. He received his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota School of Law, his M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota, and his B.A., with honors, from the University of California at Berkeley. Although he is licensed to practice law in Minnesota, he prefers to practice mediation exclusively. Before creating Twin Cities Mediation, Dan worked as a business litigation attorney and as a family business consultant. Throughout his career, he has sought better ways to intervene in cases of highly emotional conflict.
Dan is an Associate of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation. He is a founding member of the Transformative Mediators of Minnesota, a member of the Collaborative Law Institute and the Minnesota State Bar Association's Family Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections. He has received an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
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Jim Antes james.antes@und.edu
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Department of Psychology
319 Harvard Street Stop 8380
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks,
ND
58202-8
Phone: (701) 777-3882
Fax: (701) 777-3454
Website: www.und.edu/instruct/jantes
Jim Antes is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Peace Studies at the University of North Dakota and former director of the UND Conflict Resolution Center. He has extensive experience in the field of conflict resolution as a mediator, workshop leader, and consultant. Holding a Ph.D. degree in psychology from Iowa State University, he has numerous publications and presentations at professional conferences on various aspects of conflict resolution, focusing especially on the practice of mediation from the transformative perspective. He is a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and serves as secretary of its Board of Directors.
Dr. Antes was a member of the national training team that trained mediators and US Postal Service employees in the transformative mediation framework, and more recently helped develop a curriculum to train USPS REDRESSTM staff in mediator assessment. He was one of the developers of the process used to evaluate mediators for the designation of Certified Transformative MediatorTM, and is one of the assessors.
His mediation practice has primarily been in the workplace and community arenas.
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Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation
314 Cambridge Street
Grand Forks, ND 58203
701.777.2022
fax: 701.777.6184
email: isct@und.nodak.edu.
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