About

Doug Nathan is Managing Partner of conflictmatters. He provides conflict resolution, facilitation and leadership development services.

He works with individuals, teams and organizations to create opportunities for learning and inspired results by helping them gain knowledge, self-awareness and best-practice skills.

He has used this approach as a writer teaching creativity workshops; as a consultant designing change interventions for non-profit and corporate clients; as a training specialist facilitating classroom experiences for employees and managers; and as a mediator helping disputants find common ground.

For many years he explored the power of poetry to teach leadership and team-building skills to teenagers, MBA students and business professionals. More recently, he spent five years at Microsoft designing innovative classroom and online training solutions for employees, managers, and leaders.

As a training and development consultant, Doug's whole-systems approach to design and delivery addresses the complex nature of employee, management, and leadership development issues. Fields of inquiry that influence his work include systems thinking, creativity and innovation, and conflict resolution and communication theory.

Areas of Expertise and Results

• Mediation
• Conflict Resolution
• Leadership Development and Coaching
• Team Building and Facilitating Team Issues
• Change Management Coaching and Facilitating
• Strategic Planning Facilitation and Training
• Creativity and Innovation

Credentials

• Certified mediator affiliated with the following organizations:
  • Federal Executive Board
  • King County Alternative Dispute Resolution Inter-local Conflict Resolution Group
  • Kitsap County Dispute Resolution Center
• Certified Crucial Conversations instructor for VitalSmarts
• Certified Influencer instructor for VitalSmarts
• Certified trainer for Anti-Defamation League’s A Classroom of Difference anti-bias and diversity training
• Certified Learning Architect trainer.
• Master of Arts in Whole Systems Design

Recent Presentations

• Organization Systems Renewal 2011 Conference, Seattle University, WA
  • Self Organizing Groups: Sustaining Ourselves, Deepening Dialogue, Transforming Our World
    
    
• 18th Annual NW Dispute Resolution Conference, Seattle, WA April 30, 2011
  • What Went Wrong: Learning From Unexpected Results
    
    
• 2010 Department of the Navy Workplace ADR Conference, Seattle, WA June 9, 2010
  • Getting Past Impasse

• 16th Annual NW Dispute Resolution Conference Seattle, WA, April 1-2, 2009
  • Mindful Mediation: Managing Stress and Getting Results
    
    
• Oregon Mediation Association 21 st Annual Fall Conference, Portland, OR, November 7-8, 2008
  • Mindful Mediation: Managing Stress and Getting Results
    
    
• 23rd Annual FDR Conference Orlando, FL, August 3-7, 2008
  • Crucial Conversations: Executive Summary
  • Performance Conversations for Results: Using Appreciative Inquiry

• The Department of the Navy Leadership Conference HRSC, NW, Bremerton, WA, May 6-7, 2008
  • Mindful Leadership: Managing Stress and Taking Action

Professional and Civic Groups

• Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanity Council Board Member 2011-Present
• Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island. Member 2009-Present.
• Washington Mediation Association Board Member 2008-2010.
• ASTD Board member: VP of Programs for ASTD Puget Sound chapter 2007-2008

For more information, email Doug at doug@conflictmatters or call 206.734.0097.