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Summary Résumé
of Robert J. O’Donnell
WIN Director,
Senior Instructor and Senior Mediator
Robert J. O'Donnell is an educator, a trainer,
a mediator and an attorney. He has a B.S. in Business
Administration from the University of California at
Berkeley and a Juris Doctorate from Boston College Law
School. A former Coro Fellow, he completed a nine month
internship in Public Affairs in the San Francisco Office
of the Coro Foundation.
He practiced law for 21 years in his own Law Firm in
Woodstock, Vermont, specializing in Environmental Permits and
Litigation, Business Law, Personal Injury, Divorces and Family
Law, and Probate Matters. In
1989 he established the Woodstock Institute for
Negotiation in Woodstock, Vermont and serves as its
Director and Senior Instructor.
As a Visiting Institute Professor at Pepperdine University School of
Law in Malibu, California since 1991, he has taught 15 one
week or two week 2-credit intensive courses "Negotiation and
Settlement Advocacy" for the Straus Institute for Dispute
Resolution. In 2011 Pepperdine University School of Law was rated once again the
number one Dispute Resolution Law School in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
He has also taught negotiation skills at the University of Idaho College of Law in
Moscow, Idaho, at Hamline University School of Law in
St. Paul, Minnesota, and at City University of Hong Kong School of Law in
Hong Kong, China.
Since 2006, he has also been an Adjunct Professor at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire where he has
taught an intensive 3-credit graduate course over four days in the summer entitled "Negotiating, Collaborating and
Leading in Today's World" as part of the Business School's MBA Program
and their Masters in Education Program. He will be teaching the course there again in July, 2011.
In 2009 he taught "Organizational Communication, Negotiations and Conflict Resolution" at Marlboro College
Graduate School in Brattleboro, Vermontfor their Masters Program in Management - Healthcare Administration.
As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of
Vermont College of Education and Social Services, he
taught a graduate level - 3 Credit Course: Collaboration:
Theory and Process which had been offered each
semester for eight years.
While teaching at the University of Vermont and Pepperdine Univesity School of Law he created the Collaborative WIN
Process and the materials used in the trainings offered by the Woodstock Institute for Negotiation. He continues to
update and improve the Collaborative WIN Process. He has given training and workshops in both the public
and private sectors to over 10,000 people in the areas of
Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Collaborative WIN
Negotiations, Collaborative Leadership and Management,
Mediation and Power in 25 states across the country as
well as in Washington DC, St. Thomas and in nine foreign countries:
Nicaragua, Canada, the former Soviet Union,
Ireland, Northern Ireland, Mauritania (West Africa), Cameroon (Central
Africa), Burundi (East Africa) and Hong Kong, China. His work in the former Soviet
Union included a Five Day Training Program in the
Collaborative WIN Process with 28 Soviet Management Trainers
from Moscow, Leningrad, Volgograd, Kharkov, Kiev, and Penza.
He has been mediating disputes since 1984 and
currently mediates high conflict disputes for the
Woodstock Institute for Negotiation in the areas of
environmental disputes, community disputes, labor
disputes, civil suits, insurance cases, construction
contracts, and divorces. He has mediated business and
labor disputes for the United States Postal Service, Ben
and Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream Corporation, State
Farm Insurance Company, National Life Insurance Company,
the State of Vermont Department of Social Services, the School Board of Middletown Springs, Vermont and the Vermont Environmental Board, where he developed, managed and mediated for the Vermont Envirnmental Board’s Pilot Mediation Program for appeals of state environmental permits.
He also serves as an arbitrator in personnel matters.
He was appointed by Vermont’s Governor to serve
on the Governor's Commission on Dispute Resolution. He
served as the first president of the Vermont
Mediators Association, which he helped organized.
O'Donnell is the author of The WIN Workbook for
Negotiating, Collaborating and Leading in Today’s World, 1998 (last revised: 2008), and a co-author of Participants Workbook
for The Course in Collaborative Negotiations, 1986,
and of Course Notes on Mediation, 1986.
He is listed in Macmillan's Marquis Who's Who: Who's
Who in American Law, Sixth Edition, Who's Who of
Emerging Leaders, Second Edition, Who's Who in
Finance and Industry Twenty-Second Edition, and Who's
Who in the World, Ninth Edition.
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