Louise Phipps Senft of Baltimore Mediation will be inducted into the International Academy of Mediators (IAM) as a Distinguished Fellow at the annual international conference in Scotland. The IAM is the leading organization for the advancement of commercial mediation throughout the world. Senft’s induction into the International Academy of Mediators (IAM) comes as Baltimore Mediation celebrates its 25th year of providing Alternative Dispute Resolution services to thousands of individuals and business entities around the globe and training thousands more in conflict transformation and relational theory method and application.

Louise Phipps Senft, CEO of Baltimore Mediation, stated, “I am honored to be nominated into the International Academy of Mediators. I am humbled to be among so many of the dedicated practitioners who work with international lawyers and their clients in difficult and complicated business situations and conflicts to foster breakthroughs to their conflicts. I look forward to joining, as a colleague and friend, this distinguished group of IAM legal practitioners and to furthering the reach of mediators all over the world.”

Senft will attend the International Academy of Mediator’s Spring Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland this May. The conference theme is “Looking outward – Mediation: A New Enlightenment?” The conference will seek to capture the essence of the Edinburgh enlightenment and harness the creativity of new thinking in conflict resolution and transformative interventions in the commercial arena.

Recently, Louise Phipps Senft served as a keynote speaker at the 2017 International Academy of Mediator’s Conference in Austin, TX, where the theme was “The Future is Here.” Senft delivered a speech titled “The Archer Senft Story: A Creative Miracle Unfolds—Steadfast Hope and a Mediator’s Mindset Creates a Medical Team of Believers After a Life Changing Injury.”

IAM is headquarters in Toronto, Canada. Membership is by invitation only. Nomination of a new member must be sponsored by a current member of the Board of Directors and one Distinguished Fellow or Life Fellow in good standing.

About Louise Phipps Senft 

Senft is an award-winning pioneer in the field of mediation with 25 years of professional experience mediating thousands of conflicts, and teaching conflict transformation approaches and skills negotiation to further human development and well-being for negotiated settlements around the globe. She is the founder of Baltimore Mediation, a leading private practice Alternative Dispute Resolution firm dedicated to facilitating face to face dialogue to unlock gridlock. Senft has been on law faculty for two decades at the University of Maryland School of Law and has joined faculty at Harvard Law School’s Program in Mediation, Insight Initiative, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Blumberg School of Public Policy, and Carey Business school. She is the author of numerous articles on mediation, and co-author of the best-selling book Being Relational: The Seven Ways to Quality Interaction & Lasting Change. Ms. Senft is also a past president of the Maryland Council on Dispute Resolution and the only trainer in the United States approved by the Association of Conflict Resolution to teach on any mediation topic, an award granted to her in 2000. She has pioneered mediator self-awareness, understanding personal reactivity and somatic experience in the Alternative Dispute Resolution field and is a certified Enneagram teacher. She has facilitated over 4000 mediations and has taught professionals across the globe in understanding conflict and methods for reducing emotional overflow reactivity produced by the human conflict experience. She is the chosen business and divorce mediator for executives of high net worth, their families, foundations and dynasty trusts. She consults for Fortune 100 companies including T. Row Price, Coca Cola, Mass Mutual, Google, PNC Bank, Microsoft and J.P. Morgan and has collaborated with large health institutions including Johns Hopkins Hospital and University of Pennsylvania Medical.