Shifting from Harm to Harmony

Need Help Resolving a Dispute

The Harmony Strategies Group is comprised of professional and experienced mediators and dialogue facilitators who can guide through a process that is liberating, empowering, and opens up paths for lasting solutions.

Mediation is a platform for dispute resolution that is not litigious or involving a third-party to decide a “verdict” but instead encourages individuals to express themselves fully and then explore options for moving ahead. The mediation process encourages mutual understanding, perspective-shifting, and productive problem-solving. guide you through a process that is liberating, empowering, and creates meaningful understanding.

Facilitated Dialogue refers to processes that can include multiple individuals and consider varying perspectives to an issue or challenge. It is most recommended when a shift in dynamics is vital to get valuable work done and build trust.

By opening up healthy lines of communication and rebuilding broken relationships and loss of trust, Mediation and Facilitated Dialogue are key modalities for mitigating Human Capital Risk.

We help parties engage in healthy communication and productive dialogue.

During mediation and facilitated dialogue, our role is to:

Mediation and Facilitated Dialogue help resolve disputes in a way that uplifts, minimizes aggression, and allows each individual to share and feel heard. After deep listening and critical analysis of the situation, the process enables parties to reach solutions that are workable and reasonable for all.

In mediation we:

Mediation helps resolve disputes in a way that uplifts, minimizes aggression, and allows each individual to share and feel heard. After deep listening and critical analysis of the situation, the mediation process enables the parties to reach solutions that are workable and reasonable for all.

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Mediation was a process that saved us time, money, and a whole lot of heartache. I’m so glad we worked with Harmony Strategies Group.

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Facilitated Dialogue

As seasoned dialogue facilitators and professional neutrals, the Harmony Strategies Group team is adept at engaging parties in a process that invites open, collaborative, and exploratory conversation. Regardless of the amount of tension, stress, or even aggression that individuals may have felt, our job is to help parties clarify their needs, look for opportunities for mutual understanding, and explore possible resolutions. We often ask questions that parties had not considered, reframe the stories that we hear in a new light, and assist with considering the best path forward. Most importantly, we ensure that all voices are heard and an array of perspectives are considered, leading to solutions that are embraced by all and thus highly likely to succeed.

After a facilitated dialogue, participants typically feel more trust, more dignity, and less antipathy or ill-will about the situation and other people involved. This allows individuals to feel positive and hopeful about the solutions discovered and creates a path towards improved morale, better communication, and team productivity, moving forward.

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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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