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Join us for the Next Live Webcast:
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Time: 12 noon to 1pm Eastern
Place: Your Computer!
"Handling Environmental Conflict Creatively"
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(the link will become live the day of)
Almost all environmental issues in our complex modern society involve some form of conflict. It may be conflict over different land uses, over proposed developments, on dam removals, on hunting, on the likely effects of changing climate, as well as an array of economic and political issues that impact the environment. Yet we rarely use systematic approaches to tackle conflict, often preferring to avoid it, until it is unavoidable. Then we dive straight into the content of the conflict, the arguments, with little structure to guide us. No wonder we find conflict a headache. Our guest speaker in this webcast, Ed Sketch, is very experienced conflict professional, who wants to change this. He has used his over 30 years of conflict experience in the auto industry to develop a systematic approach to conflict handling, which also encourages us to see conflict as potentially creative. He will present an overview of his Creative Conflict Model in this webcast and discuss its application to environmental issues.
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Ed Sketch - CEO of an innovative Internet and Consulting start up Ann Arbor Synergies, which is centered on his experience of conflict in labor relations and his more recent research on the neuroscience of conflict. Prior to this, he was Senior Consultant at Denison Consulting working on organization culture-based business turnarounds. This followed a highly successful career in Ford Motor Company. He was Director, Global Labor Strategy, where he set the approach still followed in recent restructuring at Ford. He also reached Director level positions there with world-wide responsibility in Education, Training, and Development, and in Organization Effectiveness. And he spent nearly ten years in plant level labor relations in very difficult locations. He has also had a life long interest in environmental matters. He is now focusing on his interest in conflict, and has written a book on conflict, ‘Creative Conflict Wisdom’ and is developing a range of conflict tools in support of his approach. He is available for consulting assignments that involve significant elements of organizational or stakeholder conflict. He also acts as a strategic advisor the Michigan based environmental group the Stewardship Network, and is particularly interested to assist any environmental groups that face conflict in achieving their goals. He has a B.Sc in Economics and Economic History from Bristol University UK, and Masters in Personnel Management. He undertook doctoral research in environmental economic history.
Lisa Brush - Executive Director, Stewardship Network. Lisa has worked in the environmental field in Michigan for the last fifteen years. She is currently the Executive Director of the Stewardship Network and has been involved with the Network since its inception more than a dozen years ago. She has a wealth of experience helping non-scientific people understand scientific issues. For over ten years, as she has built and coordinated the Stewardship Network, she has emphasized effective and meaningful stakeholder involvement in developing and implementing all aspects of this program. She has a M.S. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan and a B.A. (Science in Society) from Wesleyan University.
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