ACPACS lead trainers are experts in the areas of mediation, negotiation, communication skills, complaints handling and investigation, as well as business, commercial and international conflict resolution. They all have experience in practice, so understand and incorporate the real-world application of the content they teach.

Click on the name to obtain details of the presenter's background and expertise.

Staff Presenters

 

Professor Nadja Alexander
Dr Samantha Hardy
Mr Serge Loode
Dr Polly Walker

 

External Presenters

 

Dr Peter Adler
Professor John Barkai
Professor Daniel Bowling
Mr Garth Brown
Ms Nicole Cullen
Mr Blaine Donais
Mr William Eddy
Mr Jon Graham
Ms Nina Harding
Ms Joanna Kalowski
Professor Michelle LeBaron
Professor Gabriël Moens
Professor Allan Parker
Mr Peter Singer

 

 

 

 

 

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Dr Peter Adler

Peter S. Adler, Ph.D. is President of The Keystone Center which builds applied, consensus-based policy solutions to science-intensive energy, environmental and public health-related policy problems. Adler's specialty is multi-party problem solving. He ...

Professor John Barkai

John Barkai is a Professor and Director of the Clinical Programs at the University of Hawaii School of Law where he teaches ADR and litigation courses. He also teaches in Japan and China, focused programs at the University's School of Business Administ...

Professor Daniel Bowling

Furman University, BA, cum laude; Harvard Law School, JD; Professor, Antioch Law School; Adjunct Professor, Howard Law School, Washington, DC; Director, Duke University School of Law Private Adjudication Center, Durham, NC; Adjunct Professor, Osgoode H...

Mr Garth Brown

Admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of NSW in 1984 and of the High Court and Federal Court of Australia in 1985; Garth trained as a mediator in 1994 and has conducted commercial mediations on a regular basis since. A nationally accredited ...

Ms Nicole Cullen

Nicole Cullen, Principal, Financial Services Complaints Pty Ltd, has managed external dispute resolution systems in the financial services sector and is a lawyer and an accredited LEADR mediator. She has been resolving commercial disputes through media...

Mr Blaine Donais

Profile Blaine Donais B.A., LL.B., LL.M. (ADR), RPDR, C. Med., author of Workplaces That Work, published by Canada Law Book, has spent many years working with public and private sector professionals. He is President and Founder of the Workpla...

Mr William Eddy

William A. ("Bill") Eddy is an attorney and a therapist (Certified Family Law Specialist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, respectively). He is currently the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego, C...

Mr Jon Graham

Jon Graham has developed an expertise in the management, resolution and prevention of conflict. Having completed studies in Law, Psychology and Commerce, Jon has also trained in Counselling and Group Work. This provides the avenue for Jon to assist tho...

Ms Nina Harding

Principal of Nina Harding Mediation Services Pty Ltd. Nina has conducted hundreds of training programs in Negotiation and Mediation in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the Phillipines. She has taught postgraduate courses at the University of Sydn...

Ms Joanna Kalowski

Joanna Kalowski is an experienced workshop leader, mediator and facilitator, and a former member of the National Native Title Tribunal and Administrative Appeals Tribunal. She has mediated native title claims as well as commercial, environmental and in...

Professor Gabriël Moens

JD (Leuven), LL.M (Northwestern), Ph.D (Sydney), GCEd (Queensland), FCIArb Professor Moens is Dean and Professor of Law, Murdoch University School of Law. Before taking up his present position he was Professor of Law and Head, Graduate School of La...

Professor Michelle LeBaron

Michelle LeBaron serves as Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She has done seminal work in many areas of conflict resolution including intercultural, internatio...

Professor Allan Parker

Allan Parker is an expert in communication and agreement-focussed processes and language - an international negotiator, mediator and educator who works with government, community and corporate organisations. He is author of 'The Negotiator's Toolki...

Mr Peter Singer

Peter Singer graduated in Applied Science (Computing) at Queensland University of Technology and worked as a computer programmer at Telecom, Australia Post and Northern Telecom (Canada). With his two brothers, Peter built TriStar, an Australia-wide IT ...