The PON Seminar Faculty

Faculty for PON Seminars is drawn from the Program on Negotiation community of ADR scholars and practitioners. Selected for their expertise, scholarship and proven teaching ability, PON Seminar instructors utilize a wide range of innovative teaching techniques. Each semester is enlivened by distinguished guest lectures from PON’s consortium universities and from the world of practice. The faculty for 2009-2010 includes:

• For over a decade, Emily Epstein has taught negotiation, mediation, and conflict management skills to professionals in a wide range of public and private sectors, including education, financial services, law, insurance, healthcare, construction, real estate, and scientific research. She has also mediated numerous employment, business, family, and neighborhood disputes. Emily is adjunct faculty at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she also received her J.D.
• David Seibel is a conflict management consultant in the fields of mediation, negotiation and communication. He received his J.D. at Harvard Law School where he served as President of the Harvard Mediation Program. As co-founder of Insight Partners and Insight Collaborative, David provides mediation and negotiation training world-wide. He mediates a wide range of private disputes and specializes in family and business contexts.
• Gillien Todd is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where she received her J.D. At HLS, she teaches the negotiation workshop for law students and continuing education courses for attorneys and other professionals. In addition, as a consultant, she works with individuals, groups and organizations as a mediator, facilitator, and negotiation trainer.