Juliana Birkhoff

Juliana Birkhoff, a Senior Mediator at CBI, is an experienced mediator, facilitator, dispute resolution trainer, and scholar. She combines her theoretical understanding, research experience, and group learning and collaboration skills to flexibly respond to complex group planning, problem solving and decision making challenges. In her 22 years of experience as a mediator and facilitator, she has worked with federal, state, and local level government as well as consumer, community, grassroots, and public interest groups. She has designed and conducted a variety of collaborative and consensus-based multi-stakeholder dialogues, workshops, and scientific review processes designed to improve communications, develop group learning, integrate complex information and provide input into state or federal plans or policies, develop recommendations, or create consensus plans and policies. She has particular experience in facilitating and mediating complex scientific and technical issues in politically charged contexts.

Dr. Birkhoff is an experienced trainer and teacher. She has designed and conducted a wide variety of negotiation, collaboration, and conflict resolution trainings for non-profit, governmental agencies and advocacy groups. Her training focuses on helping technical and scientific experts to work productively in collaborative processes and to expand the capacities of stakeholders, agency conflict resolution specialists, and collaborative leaders to handle team leadership, collaboration, and conflict resolution.  She has extensive background in multi-disciplinary research on conflict and conflict analysis, in particular focused on the use of collaborative decision-making processes in politically charged and technically complex issues. Her previous research projects include best practices for integrating complex scientific and technical information into collaborative processes and how stakeholders and collaborative leaders integrate different ways of knowing in collaborative processes.

From 1993 until 1996, Dr. Birkhoff held a teaching appointment at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. As well as teaching graduate courses in conflict resolution theory, research, and practice, she supervised students clinical and research experiences in communities and organizations.

CBI Blog and Podcast entries by Juliana Birkhoff