Annual General Meeting of ADR Atlantic Institute
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Breaking into ADR – What you Need to Survive and Thrive when Building Your ADR Practice
Room L174, Loyola Building, Saint Mary's University
Halifax, NS
Saturday June 9, 2018 – Half Day Workshop, including AGM
Annual General Meeting
A full agenda will be sent out prior to the meeting. At this year’s AGM we have several Board Members coming to the end of their term limits and will be seeking new members to fill these seats. If you are interested in a position on our Board helping to grow and sustain our organization, please give contact Andy Butt at andrewdbutt@nl.rogers.com.
Overview of the half day workshop
Getting training in Mediation, Arbitration, Investigations, Facilitated Group Resolution processes is the easy part – building a practice is another matter.
Learn how to build a thriving ADR practice, the practical steps for what is needed to structure and implement a marketing plan, and ideas on promotional strategies to acquire clients.
You will learn:
· how to identify your natural market;
· how to identify specific target markets;
· how to build robust and practical promotional strategies;
· practical ideas for what has worked for practitioners in the field.
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The workshop will be facilitated by Gary Furlong, B.A., LL.M (ADR), C.Med – Gary Furlong has extensive experience in mediation, alternative dispute resolution, organizational facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution. Gary is past president of the ADR Institute of Ontario, is a Chartered Mediator (C. Med.) and holds his Master of Laws (ADR) from Osgoode Hall Law School. Gary is the author of “The Conflict Resolution Toolbox”, John Wiley and Sons, 2005, and was awarded the McGowan Award of Excellence in ADR in 2005 by the ADR Institute of Canada.
Gary has worked with the Queen’s University Industrial Relations Department conducting research into employment models of dispute resolution in Canadian companies, and teaches a number of labour and workplace related dispute resolution courses at the Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre along with advanced mediation skills at York University.
Gary is a principal with Agree Dispute Resolution, and is a graduate of Stanford University in California.
