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Your practice as a business
About the session Geoff will lead a very business focussed session – attracting mediators at all stages of their business growth. Geoff and other established mediators will exchange tips and techniques that they have found work for them. From mediation business models to tracking client data, scheduling and beyond.
Come prepared to be generous with your own experience and get the benefit of others doing likewise... see you there!
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Audio recording of this session ( 1 hr 15 mins) >>
Most of all however, this will be a BYO session; Bring Your Own experience of running your own unique mediation business and from that Build Your Own practice map or business plan for 2009/10. We will look at what you want as a mediator and how you are going to achieve that. We will do that on the day and in session; nothing fancy, just a practical and usable exchange of ideas – yours and others – to take-away.
Shirli Kirschner shares her own experienceGeoff Sharp
Geoff Sharp is a commercial mediator and barrister from Wellington, New Zealand.
He has conducted hundreds of mediations over the past decade and runs a busy national mediation practice.
In late 2008 Geoff was honoured as LEADR’s 3rd Australasian Fellow and in the same year was invited to join the Visiting Faculty of California’s Pepperdine University Law School as part of its Annual Summer Professional Skills Course for Mediators. In 2008 Geoff also participated in Bond University Law School’s Distinguished Practitioner in Residence Program and is a Vice-Chair of the Independent Standards Commission of the International Mediation Institute in the Hague currently setting global credentialing standards.
In May 2009 Geoff was appointed to the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University's newly founded Centre for Dispute Resolution located in SMU's School of Law and in June 2009 presented a workshop at the inaugural Asian Mediation Association Conference in Singapore and thereafter presented the closing plenary address to the conference, “The 7 Keys to a Global Future for Mediation”.
Geoff is on the advanced mediation panels of both LEADR and the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand and is a member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre’s panel of accredited mediators. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (USA).
Geoff has trained mediators and lawyers in New Zealand, USA, Malaysia, Singapore, Samoa and Thailand and has consulted widely to the New Zealand Government on aspects of public sector mediation.
More information, including a full CV, can be found at www.geoffsharp.co.nz
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