Our Team
Bob Bordone, Co-Founder
Founder and Principal; Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School; Founder & Former Director, Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program; Former Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Senior Mediator and Organizational Consultant, The Mediation Group
Krista deBoer, Co-Founder
Founder and Principal;Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLC; Former Adjunct Professor of Negotiation at Georgetown University Law Center
Our team are experts in negotiation, mediation, facilitation, conflict resilience, consensus building, and managing complex multistakeholder processes. We use our skills to help individuals and organizations learn how to collaborate across differences, transform conflict, and negotiate to mutual gain.
Our expertise is multidisciplinary and diverse by design. Many of us have taught at some of the top universities in the world, including Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Boston University, Boston College, St. Gallen University, York University, and the University of Toronto. All of us also have rich practical experience and connection to real world negotiation dilemmas and opportunities that conflict offers for vibrancy and healthy organizations.
We are passionate about bridging the richness of research and theory to the day-to-day practice and experience of our individuals and organizations in the real world. We pride ourselves on our professionalism, our listening capability, our creativity, and our commitment to capacity-building and serve the clients and communities with whom we work.
Toby Berkman, Consultant
Senior Associate, Consensus Building Institute (CBI), Former Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Affiliated Faculty, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Amy Cohen, Consultant
Amy regularly teaches classes in mediation, restorative justice, negotiation, and international dispute resolution. She is a coauthor of a leading casebook, International Dispute Resolution
Florrie Darwin, Consultant
Affiliated Faculty, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; Former Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Daniel Del Gobbo, Consultant
Daniel Del Gobbo has taught negotiation theory and practice for over ten years. Currently, Daniel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law.
Wilfredo Diaz, Executive Assistant
Wilfredo Diaz is the newest member of the CNI team, joining in the summer of 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Mother and Teacher Pontifical Catholic University) in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Daniel Doktori, Consultant
Daniel Doktori is the senior vice president and general counsel of American Public Media Group, one of the largest producers and distributors of public radio programming in the world.
Sarah Doktori, Consultant
Former Harvard Law School Negotiation Workshop Teaching Team Member and former MIT Sloan Negotiation Workshop Teaching Team Member.
Charles Ferrara, Consultant
Vice President of Corporate and Airport Affairs at Cape Air; Mediator at The Mediation Group (TMG)
Seanan Fong, Consultant
Seanan Fong brings a grounded empathy, constructive imagination, and interdisciplinary experience to transform conflicts into opportunities.
Kyle J. Glover, Consultant
Partner at Pierce Atwood LLP and CNI consultant on negotiation and dispute resolution.
Lauren Gore, Consultant
Managing Principal at LDR Advisory Partners and Partner at LDR Growth Partners
Tristan Jones, Consultant
Barrister at Blackstone Chambers, former Adjunct Professor of Negotiation at Georgetown University Law Center.
Leah Kang, Consultant
Leah Kang, Lecturer on Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law where she teaches negotiation. Senior Attorney, Disability Rights California
Kevin Keystone, Consultant
Mediator; Former Training Director, Harvard Mediation Program; Former Teaching Fellow, Harvard Law School Negotiation Workshop
Esther Lin, Consultant
Mediator and Organizational Consultant, The Mediation Group
Laura Sabia, Consultant
Certified Mediator, J.D., 2023, NYU School of Law
Joel Salinas, Consultant
Dr. Joel Salinas is a neurologist specializing in brain health, cognitive-behavioral neurology, and neuropsychiatry who trained at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. With Bob Bordone, he is co-author of the upcoming book Conflict Resilience: How to Change When You Can’t Change Other People (HarperCollins 2024)
Zoe Segal-Reichlin, Consultant
General Counsel, Everytown for Gun Safety; Adjunct Professor of Negotiation at Georgetown University Law Center
Grant Tudor, Consultant
Policy Advocate, Protect Democracy; former Senior Manager of Political Reform at Harvard’s Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness.
Paul Yoo, Consultant
Senior VP for Ventures & Private Equity at United Talent Agency where he negotiates complex deals; former Harvard Law School Negotiation Workshop Teaching Team Member