David G. Seibel is Co-Founder and President of the conflict management firms Insight Partners and the non-profit Insight Collaborative. He helps individuals and organizations articulate their key interests and find creative options to meet them. He is a trainer, consultant, mediator, and professor in the fields of effective negotiation, communication, mediation and dispute resolution. Focusing on commercial and family contexts, Mr. Seibel’s conflict management practice includes extensive public and private service. Through Insight Collaborative, he runs the Insight Fellowship Program, which provides conflict management education experiences for talented individuals, and the Insight Peace Education Project, which teaches conflict management skills to youth in post-conflict regions.

Mr. Seibel teaches the PON Seminar, Mediation and Conflict Management, and has served as adjunct faculty in negotiation at Georgetown Law Center and at the University of Massachusetts. He is a former President of the Harvard Mediation Program and mediates a wide range of criminal and civil disputes. Mr. Seibel has taught courses related to effective negotiation, communication and strategic relationship management to corporate and non-profit clients all over the world, ranging from Fortune 500 companies in financial services and technology, to Members of Parliament in Iraq. His consulting practice includes advising the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, facilitating strategic planning sessions for senior executive teams, and coaching individuals through complex negotiations and relationship management issues in business and divorce contexts.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in world literature from Middlebury College, Mr. Seibel studied Mandarin Chinese and mediation in the People’s Republic of China. He obtained his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he served as President of the Harvard Mediation Program, and later as Sacks Fellow at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. His Fellowship focused on the advocacy, negotiation and mediation of family matters, and related clinical education. As an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, Mr. Seibel practiced trusts and estates, and then corporate law. Mr. Seibel left the practice of law and established Insight Partners and Insight Collaborative to maximize his ability to help others around the world create value while improving the relationships that matter most to them.

Link to Websites:

www.insightpartnersonline.com ^[1]
www.insightcollaborative.org ^[2]
www.insightpeaceproject.org ^[3]