I am known for my ability to help resolve and transform conflicts, negotiate and close deals, foster understanding among diverse stakeholders, and advance collaboration across sectors, cultures and perspectives. I have dedicated my 20+ year professional career to bringing brilliant new ideas to life by creating the conditions for people, organizations and systems to collaborate more effectively for greater success, impact and well-being.I work within and across business, civil sector, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations around the world on a range of strategic initiatives involving participatory dialogue processes, multi-stakeholder engagement, and organizational development through leadership maturity.I serve as legal counsel to design and develop strategies and structures that support new market channels to flourish, especially in regulated industries. A seasoned transactional lawyer and general counsel, I draw from a designer's toolbox to conceive, structure, plan, negotiate, and realize deals that serve individual and collective interests within an ecosystem of stakeholders. I take a human-centered focus that cultivates trust, participation and collaboration while unleashing the strategic insight and creative foresight necessary for real world success. A scholar practitioner, I have developed innovative frameworks, models and training methods in negotiation, conflict transformation, and participatory dialogue processes. My current research is rooted in social constructivism and reflects an interdisciplinary approach to transformative adult learning, leadership maturity, organizational development, creativity, and social innovation. I specialize in intermodal arts-based research and "making" as a way of knowing.Subject matter expertise: Rule of law, human rights, social justice, innovation, economic development, finance, multi-sector initiatives, technology, environment, education, conflict prevention & resolution, mediation, ethics, governance.