Toby Berkman is a Senior Associate at the Consensus Building Institute (CBI) and affiliated faculty at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. An attorney by training and a former litigator, Toby has been facilitating dialogue and mediating complex public disputes for more than a decade. His practice focuses on helping organizations and stakeholders collaborate more effectively around difficult public issues, both domestically and internationally. He has worked with stakeholders and organizations at the local level as well as the national and international stage, with institutions like the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations and the World Bank. As affiliated faculty at the Harvard Program on Negotiation, Toby teaches courses on collaborative problem solving and dispute resolution to law students, executives, and professionals from around the world.

Toby is an expert in organizational capacity building for collaboration and a skilled and sensitive mediator. As a trainer, he focuses on delivering memorable learning experiences that resonate with participants on both personal and professional levels. And as a mediator, he leverages his legal training and conflict resolution background to help parties find creative solutions to seemingly intractable problems or disputes.

Toby is a certified mediator in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and the American Bar Association. He was admitted to the New York bar in 2013. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2010, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a mediator with the Harvard Mediation Program. He also received a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2010, where he was awarded the Zuckerman Fellowship for academic excellence and commitment to public service.