Shifting from Harm to Harmony

Coaching & Consulting

From overt bullying to common misunderstandings, workplace conflicts distract employees and upset a productive climate. Yet many organizations don’t have a clear system for handling conflict or grievances.

Harmony Strategies Group offers expert guidance and support in streamlining how your organization addresses conflict. We help shift from a culture of divisiveness and high turnover to improved retention, morale, and belongingness.

Workplace Conflict Assessments:

Workplace Conflict Assessments:

Who we help

Businesses

School Systems

Courts & Justice Systems

religious and spiritual centers

Non-Profits

Our coaching and consulting services target the specific needs of your company.

Solutions include:

Diversity and Inclusion
When handling diversity and inclusion, we can guide management in one-on-one discussions to assess the organizations needs and interests and address specific corporate challenges to embracing inclusiveness. We can provide one-on-one coaching to individuals, develop workshops for larger groups, and offer mediations to facilitate better discussions between specific parties who may be expressing insensitive or even unlawful sentiments and opinions. Book Now!
Management Skills
Many corporate leaders have been promoted to management positions without honing their “soft-skills” to best motivate and inspire their teams or employs. We can conduct a strategic analysis of executive strengths and weaknesses and make targeted recommendations, accordingly. Likewise, we can coach managers having difficulty “relating” to their teams and help open the lines of communication for fewer misunderstandings and better group efficiency. Book Now!
Group Dynamics

Sometimes groups develop bad habits. There are groups that implode with infighting and groups that work terribly inefficiently. Some members will rely on others to do the heavy-lifting, and over time this breeds ill-will and poor group morale. We offer group dynamics assessments to address where are the main pitfalls and then coach group leaders accordingly. Likewise, we can offer targeted analyses to review and revive the group culture, by strategically assessing individual players’ strengths and weaknesses. Book Now!

Team Building

Developing new teams is a delicate and important step in many corporations and organizations. Individual personalities, strengths, and even hobbies can play a part in how the team performs. We can assist management in matching complementary skills and personality types, to bring out the best in each player and optimize team performance. Book Now!

Employee Burnout

Invariably, we all have highs and lows in our professional careers. When we face dry spells and boredom, it can affect the overall company morale, by triggering others in a downward spiral. With a combination of individual executive coaching and retreat workshops, we can help develop ways to address burnout and low-morale and bring the company to greater heights by reviving individual motivation and inspiring employees. Book Now!

Mindfulness

Mindfulness at work creates a corporate culture of respect, compassion, healthy team dynamics, and high morale. Executives that lead with mindfulness benefit from higher productivity, greater employee dedication, and overall quality-of-life in the workplace. We offer mindfulness coaching for management, executives, administrators, and employees alike, and we consult on applying mindfulness practice during the workday. Book Now!

We always include a free consultation to clarify client goals and develop action-plans to achieve them. These action-plan solutions may include: facilitations, focus group discussions, online or paper surveys, and dedicated conversations with leadership and management. Coaching may be one-on-one or small-group or team coaching for up to 8 individuals.

Our coaching and consulting solutions train executives, leaders, and staff alike to address problems early-on, optimize workplace engagement, and create a culture of care, respect, and understanding.

Want more information about Conflict Assessments and Solutions?

By assessing leadership dynamics and habits, we create action-plans for organizations to become better equipped to handle grievances, change or challenges. We propose systems for handling disputes in order to prevent unnecessary escalation that drains valuable time and resources. 

Conflict Management System Design (CMSD) is a comprehensive review of policies, grievance processes, and organizational systems to consider how workplace conflicts are addressed. Through a process of interviews, document review, and structural analysis,  consultants identify the current systems for handling disputes and highlight weaknesses and unrealized opportunities for improvement. This feedback invites senior leadership to apply systems updates for smoother, clearer, and fairer processes for handling disputes.

Coaching:

Harmony Strategies provides coaching for a variety of roles and situations. We coach those who are preparing for a negotiation or a sensitive conversation with a loved one, as well as those seeking guidance on their next career moves.

Coaching services we offer include:

Conflict Coaching
when individuals are dealing with conflict, change, or crisis.
Executive Coaching

when senior leadership seeks guidance on managing their teams and blend vision, innovation, and strategic planning.

Career Coaching
when considering professional options for growth.
Parenting Coaching
when struggling with discipline or family dynamics.
Partner Coaching
when communication breaks down or when dealing with misunderstandings and behaviors that chip away at the partnership.

Coaching services we offer include:

Conflict Coaching
when individuals are dealing with conflict, change, or crisis.
Executive Coaching

when senior leadership seeks guidance on managing their teams and blend vision, innovation, and strategic planning.

Career Coaching
when considering professional options for growth.
Parenting Coaching
when struggling with discipline or family dynamics.
Partner Coaching
when communication breaks down or when dealing with misunderstandings and behaviors that chip away at the partnership.

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Melody Wang

Melody Wang is a Conflict Consultant with the Harmony Strategies Group and CEO of Wang Mediation, which she founded upon graduation from the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law with an MA in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Melody is a panel mediator for the New York City Family Court and serves on the Board of Directors at the Association for Conflict Resolution, Greater New York (ACR-GNY). Prior to moving to New York, Melody was an experienced civil and community mediator in Los Angeles, California, working closely with non-profits, small claim courts and the California federal court. She also led selected trainings and workshops on dispute resolution within the Asian-American community in California.  Melody has lived in the U.S., Taiwan, China and Singapore, is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese, and especially enjoys engaging in international relations and cross-cultural conflict systems.

Dara Rossi

Dara Rossi, Ph.D. is a Conflict & Strategy Consultant with the Harmony Strategies Group. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of education and has worked with students from kindergarten through the university graduate level. Additionally, she has facilitated professional development for educators and administrators across all points on the education continuum. After10 years of service in the Department of Teaching and Learning Southern Methodist University, she launched her coaching and consulting business while continuing to serve as an adjunct professor. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, an MBA, an MA in Dispute Resolution, and an MAT in Education, and BS in Human Development.

Isar Mahanian

Isar Mahanian, M.Sc. is a Conflict & Strategy Consultant with the Harmony Strategies Group. She is an active mediator who coaches new mediators in the program in which she serves. Isar has worked at a fast-paced technology start-up as the Head of Human Resources, leading senior executives to mitigate and resolve workplace conflicts and creating system level improvements for employees within the company. She holds a Master’s of Science degree in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University. 

Kimberly Jackson Davidson

Kimberly Jackson Davidson is currently the University Ombudsperson at George Mason University and member of the Harmony Strategies Group. She spent two decades at Oberlin College in Ohio, holding positions in the Office of the Dean of Students and as Visiting Lecturer in African American Studies. During her final five and a half years there, she served all campus constituencies as Ombudsperson and Director of the Yeworkwha Belachew Center for Dialogue (YBCD). Davidson is active within the International Ombuds Association (IOA), the California Caucus of College and University Ombuds (CCCUO), and the Ombuds Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). She earned a B.A. in English Literature from Spelman College in 1986 and an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in African Literature in 1991.

Hector Escalante

Hector Escalante is an experienced Ombuds and learning and development professional with over seven years of ombuds experience and over twenty years of experience developing and teaching course offerings which promote inclusion, healthy communication, and conflict resolution. He is the Director of the Ombuds Office at the University of California, Merced, having served many years as the organizational ombuds at the University of the Pacific. He is an ombuds partner with Harmony Strategies Group, and a consulting ombuds for Earthjustice and Union of Concerned Scientists.  Hector holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate in education. He is a United States Marine Corps veteran, a husband and father to four children. Hector’s passions include treating all with fairness, equity, dignity, and compassion and good food. 

Stuart Baker

Stuart Baker is a heart-centered strategic consultant with the Harmony Strategies Group. He makes use of all his experience in the construction industry, mediation and presenting, combined with years of spiritual pursuit, to offer a unique and broad sensitivity in his consulting work. He loves helping people deepen their harmony and connection with others, and with themselves. We are honored to have Mr. Stuart Baker on our team, pioneer of “Conscious Cooperation” – his book can be ordered here
 

Kira Nurieli

Kira Nurieli is the CEO of the Harmony Strategies Group and is an expert mediator, conflict coach, trainer/facilitator, consultant, and restorative practices facilitator. She has spent upwards of twenty years helping clients handle conflict and improve communication strategies and has presented at numerous conferences and symposia as a subject matter expert. She holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Performance from Barnard College. She especially enjoys helping individuals, teams, and lay-leaders become more impactful and empowered in their work and is honored to work alongside her esteemed colleagues with the Harmony Strategies Group.

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