Ranse Howell

Consultant

E-mail: rhowell@cedr.com

Direct dial: +44 (0) 20 7536 6009

Ranse Howell - Consultant

Ranse joined CEDR in 2006. He is primarily responsible for negotiation course development and internal commercial management. Having worked in US for many years in the entertainment industry and the legal field, he returned to London and is working with CEDR to broaden the applications of conflict management within corporate organisations and law firms.

Ranse has designed and developed conflict management programmes for both private and public sector clients.  Ranse has also been instrumental in the design of the CEDR Certificate in Advanced Negotiation, which is a seven-day reflective learning course, designed to develop and enhance the participants approach to negotiation.  He has worked with clients in the UK and overseas (including Lloyd’s of London, Bristol Myers Squibb, VT Group, The Arts Council, University of Birmingham, NHS and the Department for Transport) in developing a broad range of negotiation skills and practices, which has included dealing with emotion, identifying needs and interests and effective communication. 

While at CEDR Ranse has written: Emotional Intelligence and Projects, N. Clarke and R. Howell, PMI Press,  2010,  “Railway Strategy Comes at a Price”, Railway Strategies, September 2009; “Prepared for Conflict”, The Growing Business Handbook, Kogan Press 2009; “We Came, We Trained”, Rethinking Negotiation Teaching, DRI Press, 2009. 

For the past several years Ranse has also had the opportunity to lecture on Mediation and enhanced ADR processes at Pepperdine University (London), City University of New York (School of Law), Canterbury Christ Church (Law Department), University of Southampton (School of Business) University of Birmingham and Cardiff University.

Ranse is a CEDR accredited mediator and has had the opportunity to mediate numerous commercial cases (including construction, contract, employment and tenancy) both in the US and UK. 

Ranse received his legal training (JD) from the City of New York School of Law and worked in a boutique law firm that specialised in advocating for educational services for disabled children. He then continued his legal education in the US, receiving his LLM (International Dispute Resolution) from the Straus Institute at Pepperdine University, Malibu.  Ranse also holds a BFA and a Master of Social Work (MSW) from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA and is a trained counsellor.

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