Eve Pienaar

Eve Pienaar

Coach, Assessor, Conflict Management Trainer

Short Introduction

Highly experienced and full-time commercial mediator, working across a broad range of commercial sectors as well as workplace and employment disputes.
Eve is Lead Faculty for CEDR, delivering mediation skills training and coaching.  
Eve enjoys sharing her passion for mediation when delivering mediation skills training.  She combines warmth, energy and a passion for the subject-matter, to teach, coach and feedback clients in a positive and engaging manner.

About Work

Eve has been delivering mediation skills training, from mediation awareness courses to advanced mediation skills training, since 2007. Eve also has experience in facilitating better communication within teams or at board level, helping parties to have difficult conversations where necessary. She works at individual course level and also on mediation training projects adapted to a client's needs. 

Eve co-presents courses and webinars with professionals from other fields, to constantly evolve and adapt the mediation process to best suit client needs. For instance speaking with experts in neurodiversity on how to make mediation more inclusive and available to clients in all walks of life, or developing bespoke workplace mediation training courses at organisational level. Eve has delivered mediation skills training in French (Equanim International accreditation programme in Paris). She is a fluent French speaker, having grown up in France.

Eve regularly delivers mediation skills training in the UK and online, as well as in the EU. She enjoys teaching, coaching and assessing delegates on the CEDR Mediation Skills Training courses. Delegates’ feedback suggest she is a very effective trainer, who enjoys imparting skills and insight into mediation and negotiation in a positive manner. Her genuine desire to help individuals use mediation to its full potential comes across in her enthusiasm and warm but insightful practice delivery, whether as mediation users, practitioners or advocates.

Sectors

  • Commercial Mediation
  • Communication Skills
  • Conflict Management
  • Executive Coaching
  • Facilitation
  • Mediation Skills Training
  • Negotiation
  • Psychological Safety & Inclusion
  • Team Dynamics
  • Workplace & Employment Mediation

Other Awards

Chambers & Partners directory (commercial mediation) - Band 2 
Legal 500 directory (commercial mediation) - ranked Tier 2 
Lexology ranked Leading Expert in mediation, and Client Choice Award 2025 
IMI certified mediator 
Equanim International (Paris) - mediation panel member 
CMC Fellow member

Key Skills

  • CEDR Panel Mediator 2007
  • Mediation and negotiation advocate
  • Communication, active listening skills, collaborative and inclusive communication

Qualifications

CEDR accredited commercial mediator and Panel member (2007)
Workplace and employment mediation training, ADRg (2009) 
CEDR Lead Faculty member (and Coach and Assessor since 2011) 
Mediation and Negotiation related courses - various (including Hostage Negotiation, International Accreditation Programme)
IMI certified mediator (2023) 
Schwarz Facilitator (2010)