About

Using his broad based legal, commercial and business experience to overcome the barriers to resolving disputes.

COMMediate

Cooperate

Comprehend

Communicate

Resolve

Deal

Commercial

Mediate

Collaborate

Deliver

Clarity

Mike has been CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) Mediator since 1996.

  • Early adopter and advocate of mediation/ADR (alternative dispute resolution)

  • Responsible for strategic repositioning of large law firm litigation practice to embrace ADR

  • Practice 3 times winner of CEDR Award for Professional Excellence in ADR

Mediation skills and capabilities

Lawyer

Legal expertise, spanning both disputes (contentious) and commercial deal making (non-contentious) disciplines.

Capabilities

  • Legal risk management

  • Litigation advice and management

  • Dispute resolution

  • Deal making

  • Transaction management

  • Cost management

  • Client/stakeholder mangement

Application to Mediation

  • Identify the key legal issues

  • Test legal positions

  • Evaluate likely outcomes

  • Build common ground

Management consultant

Working as a Management Consultant advising large corporates and institutions on the delivery of transformative change.

  • Analytics - disassembling complex problems, determining core issues, and developing deliverable solutions

  • Behavioural science - techniques for establishing what makes individuals tick and how to build high performing teams

  • Transformation - techniques to instil new ways of thinking and working, to deliver sustainable transformation

  • Get to the core - drawing out the true causes of the dispute and possible practical solutions

  • Build collaboration - positioning the dispute as a shared problem to be solved by all involved

  • Motivate - building collective buy in to the mediation process and to any settlement which is reached

Managing Director

Operating as a senior executive, delivering a major global project and managing at board level the corporate affairs of a multi-billion dollar share services organisation.

  • Corporate leadership

  • Board experience and management

  • C-suite experience

  • Stakeholder management

  • Empathy - understanding the priorities of senior execs and factoring them into solution building

  • Pace - moving at the right speed to maintain the engagement of seniors

  • Focus - concentrating on what is important and will make a difference