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He is also the developer of the “New Ways for Families” method of managing potentially high conflict families in and out of family court. He is currently developing a method for managing potentially high conflict employees titled “New Ways for Work.”

Megan Hunter, MBA
Megan Hunter is the co-founder of High Conflict Institute. She developed the concept of the Institute after 13 years in family law as the Family Law Specialist with the Arizona Supreme Court, Administrative Office of the Courts and Child Support Manager of the Dawes County Attorney’s Office in Nebraska.

Her family law experience includes policy formation, research and program development regarding court procedures, child support protocols and parent education programs, as well as developing expertise regarding international child custody disputes. As staff to the Arizona Legislature’s Domestic Relations and Child Support Committee she gained a broad understanding of the issues facing both families and professionals in family law.

Megan has provided speaking and training regarding family law and managing high conflict people to a wide variety of audiences across the United States, as well as in Canada and Australia. She holds an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelor’s of Business and Economics from Chadron State College, Chadron, Nebraska. She served as President of the Arizona Chapter of the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts, the Arizona Family Support Council and Nebraska Child Support Enforcement Association and served on a federal task force that designed a strategic plan for judicial and child support enforcement collaboration. She is a public member of the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners and was honored with the 2006 “Friend of Psychology” Award from the Arizona Association of Psychologists. She has training in general and family mediation.

Warren D. Camp practices exclusively family law in Palm Desert, California. He is a certified specialist in family law accredited by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization, as well as a certified family law trial expert accredited by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a Fellow of both the American and International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

From 1998 to 2002, he sat as a Superior Court family law bench officer in Riverside County, California. He has completed advanced training in dispute resolution from the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame University, and the Strauss Institute at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California, and he holds a Master’s Degree in dispute resolution from the Werner Institute, Creighton University School of Law, in Omaha, Nebraska.

He is the author of numerous published law articles and is the co-author, along with Bill Eddy, of “It’s All Your Fault!” (workbook edition).

L. Georgi DiStefano, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with extensive experience in the management of substance abuse programs and employee assistance programs, as well as a popular speaker on workplace conflict resolution. She is the Executive/Clinical Director of the Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies and Services for the San Diego State University Research Foundation, managing a budget of $3.7 million with over 3,000 active clients. In the past, she has managed the Employee Assistance Program for Kaiser Permanente hospital system in San Diego, CA and was the coordinator of the Critical Incident Team and worked with the Threat Management Committee.  

For over a decade she has provided monthly management seminars for organizations such as Viejas Enterprises and Cymer Inc. Her corporate clients have also included Sea World, City of Temecula, Salk Institute, County of San Diego and Integrated Insights/HHRC. She continues to conduct employee seminars and management training in a variety of wellness and teambuilding topics. She recently received the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) San Diego chapter Lifetime Achievement Award.

She was the Executive Director of the Counseling and Recovery Institute in San Diego, CA. Ms. DiStefano is the lead author of the book: Paradigm Developmental Model of Treatment Book: A Clinical Guide  For Counselors working With Substance Abusers And The Chemically Dependent and has spoken internationally on this new model she created. She provides management consultation and executive coaching, in addition to seminars on managing high conflict people in the workplace, healthcare, substance abuse programs and other settings.

His partner is Rachel Hardies, a therapist, who collaborates with him in high conflict / domestic violence mediations and HCI presentations. Mark and Rachel co-founded BELARI, an interdisciplinary pro bono clinic researching high conflict cases and providing legal advice and mediation services. Mark and Rachel provide coaching to professionals and parties in high conflict cases.

Mark has presented on behalf of the High Conflict Institute since 2009 and has published articles on understanding and handling high conflict cases.

He is also a frequent contributor to the Washington State Bar Association’s Family Law section listserve. These postings address topics that litigators with difficult high conflict cases face on a daily basis. His training includes mediation training at the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, being trained as a GAL, and psychology class work focusing on attachment, trauma, and personality disorders. Mark is an executive board member of the Washington State Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution section, former counsel for the North Olympic Drug and Alcohol Center, and is the Quileute Nation attorney for tribal domestic violence cases.

Michael Lomax is a highly experienced lawyer/mediator who has assists many individuals, corporations and government agencies in understanding how to manage high conflict personalities.

Michael has conducted hundreds of mediations including family, workplace, multi-party and court related matters and Michael’s mediation work makes up approximately 80% of his law practice. Michael also represents clients where he assists them in resolving their disputes through alternative dispute resolution processes.

Michael has previous experience as the director of a Canadian federal government mediation center, where he was responsible for promoting the department’s workplace conflict resolution program and supervising a team of mediators. Michael also delivers training in conflict resolution skills to organizations and has conducted many toxic workplace interventions.

Tania Sourdin

Professor Tania Sourdin is the Foundation Chair and Director of the Australian Centre for Court and Justice System Innovation (ACCJSI) at Monash University in Australia. Tania has previously been the Director of the Conflict Resolution Centre at La Trobe University and Co Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program at the University of Queensland. She is an active mediator, conciliator and adjudicator and is a member of a number of tribunals and panels.

She wrote the National Mediator Accreditation Standards and has led national research projects and produced important recommendations for court and non adversarial justice reform. She has conducted research into conflict resolution and disputant perceptions in eight courts and four independent conflict schemes and currently has two major evaluation projects in this area.

Tania has worked across Australia, in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada, the United States, the UK, the United Arab Emirates and the Pacific.  As well, Professor Sourdin is the author of books (including Alternative Dispute Resolution (Thomson Reuters) – 4th ed forthcoming), articles, papers and has published and presented widely on a range of topics including commercial dispute resolution, mediation, conflict resolution, complaints management, case management, collaborative lawyering, judicial dispute resolution, high conflict disputants and organisational change.

Vik is the co-creator of Unstoppable Conversations Inc. In his role as a high-stakes conflict resolution specialist he has mediated and negotiated disputes involving billions of dollars, climate change, political jurisdiction, corporate change, violence, divorce, and other forms of personal and organizational breakdown. Vik is a Dean's List graduate, holds a Master of Science, is the co-founder of the multi-million dollar Castle Rock Research Corp, and has a standing offer from the Canadian Federal Government. At the core of his work are ontology and the construct of identity and their profound impact on relationships, conflict, and performance. He has taught and spoken about this to international audiences and will soon be added as one of the influential group of thinker/speakers at TED.com.