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Developing Your Career in Mediation

$197.00

The Developing Your Career in Mediation Course teaches the specific and proven steps that will help you develop your career in mediation.

This course is perfect for anyone considering a career in dispute resolution… and people who are looking to enhance their existing dispute resolution career. Including those in the legal, business, and non-profit world… as well as community leaders, ombuds, and human relations managers.

For those who want to:

  • Discover the key lessons that experienced and successful mediators most value
  • Learn more about the mediator’s profile… and whether it fits your personality, style, and life goals
  • Understand how one’s emotional capacity can make or break your career as a mediator… and whether it’s right for you
  • Develop a business plan… including a marketing strategy with actionable steps to get you off and running on your mediation career
  • Learn how to distinguish yourself and your career as a professional mediator among your peers and the public
  • Explore the many career opportunities that await you as a trained professional mediator

How we teach:

  • Through the lens of experience, not from a textbook.
  • Focusing on the underlying traits of successful mediators, not just through a checklist 
  • With the help of real-world experience from experts with successful mediation careers

What you'll learn:

  • The skills and personality characteristics essential to becoming a successful mediator
  • The common challenges you’ll face in developing your career as a mediator
  • The steps to gain personal fulfillment through a successful work/life balance
  • Insights and experience from EMA experts and other mediation professionals at various stages of their careers
Purchase your course and learn mediation in a whole new way!
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Bruce A. Edwards

Bruce is one of the pioneers in developing mediation to resolve commercial disputes in the United States. He has been a professional mediator since 1986 and has mediated over 8000 disputes. Bruce was a co-founder and former chairman of the board of directors of JAMS. In 2023 he joined Signature Resolution to continue his mediation practice while pursuing his passion for delivering high-quality mediation training through Edwards Mediation AcademyBruce has consistently received recognition for his work as a mediator, most recently being accepted into the inaugural edition of Who’s Who in ADR by ADR Times 2022; once again recognized as a Best Lawyer in the ADR category by Best Lawyers® 2022 and recognized as a Global Elite Thought Leader and Mediator in the US by Who’s Who Legal, 2023.

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Developing Your Career in Mediation - Instructors

Bruce Edwards
Nina Meierding
Hon. Danny Weinstein
Victor Schachter Curtis
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Edwards Mediation Academy - Course Discounts

We offer discounts to students, military, qualifying groups or business organizations, and existing EMA members. Please contact us for more information.