Seanan Fong brings a grounded empathy, constructive imagination, and interdisciplinary experience to transform conflicts into opportunities.

Through his conflict resolution practice, Seanan has served as a facilitator, mediator, conflict coach, and conflict skills trainer for a range of groups navigating conflict, from small startups to campus organizations. As the independent contract ombuds at a major technology company, Seanan designed and implemented a new role to help employees work through difficult or sensitive issues and surface trending concerns. He also served as a court-appointed mediator with the Harvard Mediation Program and as a teaching team member at the Harvard Negotiation Institute. His work with the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program assessing a townwide political tension was recognized in the Boston Globe.

Seanan also brings a unique perspective to conflict transformation from his career in design. Hired as a solo designer spearheading the clinical user experience at a health technology startup, he introduced the design thinking process as an effective way to understand and clarify needs, manage complex stakeholders, and spark creative and effective solutions. By putting design thinking at the center of product development, Seanan helped the company create products that physicians love, leading to a $40 million Series C. Seanan incorporates design thinking into his conflict resolution practice to reframe problems and inspire imaginative solutions to stubborn challenges.

Seanan received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University and his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School. Through his interfaith training in spiritual care, Seanan brings a grounded empathy to groups with diverse experiences and values. At his clinical chaplaincy internship at Stanford Hospital, Seanan served the emotional and spiritual needs of a wide variety of patients and their families across the theological spectrum. As a queer/gay nonreligious Asian American, he co-authored Family Sacrifices: The Ethics and Worldviews of Chinese Americans (Oxford University Press, 2019), a sociological study of Chinese Americans reviewed in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion as “a must-read for scholars interested in reevaluating what is, and what is not, religious.” Seeking a deep understanding of underlying values and cultural contexts continues to animate Seanan’s work in conflict transformation.