Our Team

Bob Bordone, Co-Founder

Founder and Principal; Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School; Founder & Former Director, Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program; Former Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Senior Mediator and Organizational Consultant, The Mediation Group

Krista deBoer, Co-Founder

Founder and Principal;Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLC; Former Adjunct Professor of Negotiation at Georgetown University Law Center 

Our team are experts in negotiation, mediation, facilitation, conflict resilience, consensus building, and managing complex multistakeholder processes. We use our skills to help individuals and organizations learn how to collaborate across differences, transform conflict, and negotiate to mutual gain.

Our expertise is multidisciplinary and diverse by design. Many of us have taught at some of the top universities in the world, including Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Boston University, Boston College, St. Gallen University, York University, and the University of Toronto. All of us also have rich practical experience and connection to real world negotiation dilemmas and opportunities that conflict offers for vibrancy and healthy organizations.

We are passionate about bridging the richness of research and theory to the day-to-day practice and experience of our individuals and organizations in the real world. We pride ourselves on our professionalism, our listening capability, our creativity, and our commitment to capacity-building and serve the clients and communities with whom we work.