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Mark Fowler is a future thinker.

Mark is Research Director and Co-Founder of The Global Foresight Network - an international consultancy to organisations wanting a pathway to their future.

Today I spoke to Mark about the future and how we mediators may learn to think about our own destiny and take steps to make sure we get there intact.

Here is the first part of that interview, with part 2 to come.

 Here is a detailed explanation of the future thinking tool - Go Visual Convergence Circles - that Mark talks about

Vicki Pynchon continues her facinating series of conversations with interesting folk. Here she talks with Aerospace Engineer and Manager Anthony Gingiss concerning Minority Employee Resource Groups

Here I talk to Barry Jordan of PPB McCallum Petterson, a leading forensic accounting firm.

Barry is Director of his firm’s Forensic Services Team and is often engaged as a financial expert in cases that end up in both the court and mediation.

I ask Barry about his role as an expert, both generally and in some detail - getting down to the nuts and bolts of an expert’s role in joint and private mediation sessions; how mediators can assist experts in narrowing the all to often gap between competing expert views; how mediators can move from the science of the case (the numbers/technical aspects) towards the pragmatic/commercial deal making part of the mediation and how experts can ‘partner’ mediators when the going gets tough.

See also Prof John Wade’s excellent resource on the wise use of experts in mediation over at mediator blah…blah…  

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Part 2

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Part 2

Christopher To is the Secretary General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.

Here Chris talks to Geoff Sharp of the Centre’s work and the exciting future of mediation in Asia.