| Geoff Sharp accepts appointment as LEADR Fellow
LEADR Chair, Margaret Halsmith said “We know Geoff to be a person of ideas and energy. LEADR is excited by the opportunities for working closely with him to action these ideas in line with the goals of LEADR.” Geoff joins previous LEADR Fellows, the Honourable Tony Fitzgerald and Ms Joanna Kalowski in their roles as ambassadors for LEADR within the Chapter network and with the public. The LEADR Fellow is well positioned to represent ADR to the community and to government and to identify opportunities for LEADR to promote its goals for the benefit of its members and the community. In accepting, Geoff said “I am delighted to take up the appointment and can see much to do within the role”. In his enthusiasm, Geoff has immediately raised a range of ways that he can contribute including both in-person and on-line presentations to Chapters in which a wide variety of topical issues would be explored. “In particular, I would like to encourage future thinking around mediation. This inevitably means thinking about and exploring online tools. As well, I would like to encourage more Australasian mediators to write – for me, that means writing online. I do not think there is enough coming from Australasian mediators. My own experience of what writing for the internet can do really opened my eyes to the potential to share knowledge within our global mediation community.” LEADR believes that within the role of Fellow there will be a great deal of scope for Geoff to follow his passions and to offer significant value both to LEADR and to the community of dispute resolvers particularly in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. Congratulations Geoff and thank you for accepting this role. About Geoff Sharp Geoff Sharp is a commercial mediator and barrister from New Zealand. For 18 years until the late 1990s Geoff was a partner of a major NZ commercial law firm. Over the last 10 years, as a commercial mediator, Geoff has resolved many contentious matters. Geoff is regularly requested to mediate complex and hotly debated litigation covering a wide range of subject matter from insurance disputes to historic sexual abuse claims. Among his many contributions to ADR, Geoff is well known for his highly stimulating, topical and entertaining blog called "mediator blah…blah…" found at http://mediatorblahblah.blogspot.com Geoff is on the advanced panel of LEADR mediators and on the AMINZ panel of specialist mediators. Geoff is also the first Australasion mediator to be elected a fellow of the International Academy of Mediators. The mission of this global Academy is “ to define standards and qualifications for the professional mediator of commercial disputes and to promote the mediation process as the preferred means of resolving disputes”. Other appointments include:
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LEADR is proud to announce that internationally renowned, New Zealand ADR practitioner and barrister, Geoff Sharp, has accepted the invitation of the Board to be LEADR Fellow for 2008−2010. Geoff is known for his professional and innovative contribution to mediation at a global level, his vigor in promoting alternative dispute resolution and the personal integrity that underpins his efforts.