Teaching

Don took a deep dive into negotiation theory from a business perspective at Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and advanced legal studies through Pepperdine’s top-rated Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

His goal was for theory to inform practice and help develop real tools for negotiators in disputing situations. But it’s often said that the best way to really learn something is to have to teach it.

In addition to serving as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (ranked #1 in the nation by U.S. News for at least five consecutive years), Don has guest lectured at the University of Cincinnati School of Law (Marjorie Aaron’s Advanced Decision Analysis Class), St. Mary’s School of Law (mediation and negotiation classes for three-plus years), and different classes at Trinity University.

He has also trained accountants, general counsel, lawyers, mediators, and others in a variety of contexts ranging from ABA Litigation and Dispute Resolution Section Conferences to individual firms to general counsel groups and a variety of others.

Not only does Don get to learn from industry leaders in these different national groups, the preparation forces him to really learn the subject matter and constantly reformulate his practice.  That keeps it alive for him, but also adds additional tools to his mediation toolbox.