Jana Arden

Jana M Arden is a commercial and workplace mediator working with founders, investors, and senior leadership in situations where conflict begins to affect performance, decision making, and long term relationships. Her work focuses on disputes linked to contracts, commercial partnerships, governance, and leadership dynamics, often in the context of acquisitions, expansion, and organisational change.

She brings 20 years of experience across luxury and consumer businesses in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, spanning retail operations, strategy, and commercial development. Her work has involved distribution models, licensing structures, brand partnerships, and the sale and delivery of high value advisory programmes, providing direct insight into the commercial and relational pressures behind decision making. She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from Harvard University and an MBA from IMD Business School.

She works with situations where positions have hardened, bringing focus to the issues driving the impasse and supporting parties in reaching decisions that hold in practice. Her multicultural background and experience working across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia allow her to navigate different communication styles and expectations with ease. Working in multiple languages, she engages at both commercial and behavioural levels in complex, cross border situations.