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The CEDR Certificate in Advanced Negotiation

Course Director

The Course Director, Dr Karl Mackie, is an internationally renowned mediator and Chief Executive of CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution).  A barrister, psychologist, management consultant, and educator, Karl brings a lifetime’s experience of working with negotiators in commercial, legal, public sector  and employment disputes. 

A former partner in a business strategy consultancy, and an arbitrator/mediator for ACAS, he has been a special Professor at two universities, Westminster and Birmingham, and is Chief Adjudicator of the OFSTED Independent Complaints Service. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict.

He is regularly called upon to mediate and facilitate negotiations in complex legal and commercial deadlocks across a range of business sectors and involving cases of up to £1 billion.

Contributors

CEDR’s Training Faculty represent the most experienced body of conflict management and mediation trainers in the UK and worldwide.  They comprise a group of over 20 trainers who are all accomplished mediators in their field with collective experience of delivering hundreds of participant training days per year.   

Throughout this course, core faculty, special guest lecturers and observers will be invited to join in sessions of the course, to enhance the practical insights gained from the faculty, participants and course materials. Among the contributors are:

Eileen Carroll

Eileen Carroll is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director of Strategic Development and one of the world's most experienced and successful commercial mediators. As a director of CEDR she has been involved in process design and broking the resolution of highly complex multi-party disputes, some in the region of £1 billion, and chairing various parts of these complex procedures - clients include Atlantic Computers, Maxwell Policies, BCCI.

Eileen also holds a Coaching Qualification from Henley Management College and provides advice and coaching to senior executives on managing change in challenging environments.

Graham Massie

Graham is CEDR’s Director of Consultancy responsible for its international development and conflict management consultancy initiatives.

Specialist areas of practice include:

• Commercial issues confronted by owner-managed businesses.
• Financial disputes arising out of corporate mergers and acquisitions, particularly issues relating to completion accounts, valuations, pre-and post-acquisition trading accounts.
• Professional negligence issues, particularly auditors and accountants.

In addition to his responsibilities as company secretary and chief financial officer at CEDR, Graham is also a Board member of the International Dispute Resolution Centre and The Negotiation Competition.

James South

James South is responsible for CEDR's training and educational capabilities including the development of leading-edge courses for the legal profession, businesses and public sector and well as collaboration with universities and professional and international ADR bodies.

A New Zealand trained barrister and solicitor, James has been involved in ADR for the past nine years. Firstly as a government mediator for the New Zealand Ministries of Justice and Housing and the past four with CEDR. He gained a Masters in Laws (distinction) in Dispute Prevention and Resolution in 1999 and became a CEDR accredited mediator in 2000. He is also a member of CEDR's training faculty.

Additional Contributors

Autumn 2010 Course, 11th March

CEDR will welcome Colin Parry as the speaker at the delegate dinner that evening.

To learn more about Colin, click here

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