Stewart Levine - Conflict to Collaboration

Stewart’s Key Qualifications:

• Experience: Over 40 years as a leader, instructor, coach, executive and lawyer
• Client Industries: All industries
• Levels of Service: All levels of service, individuals and teams, small and large organizations
• Expertise: Conversational models that create “Agreements for Results”, improves productivity and increases collaboration

Stewart Levine is a creative problem solver widely recognized for creating agreement and empowerment in the most challenging circumstances. He improves productivity while saving the enormous cost of conflict through his innovative work with “Agreements for Results” and unique “Resolutionary” conversational models.

As a practicing lawyer he realized fighting was an ineffective way to resolve problems and when he was a marketing executive for AT&T, he saw the reason collaborations fall apart is that people do not spend time at the beginning of new working relationships to create clarity about what they want to accomplish together and how they will get there. This is true for employment relationships, teams, joint ventures and all members of any virtual team. As a result of his observations, he designed conversational models that create “Agreements for Results” and a quick return to productivity when those working relationships break down. He uses his approach to form teams and joint ventures in a variety of situations and works with individuals, couples, partners, small and large organizations of all kinds.

Levine has worked for 3M, American Express, Chevron, Con-Agra, EDS, General Motors, Oracle, Safeco, University of San Francisco, and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Navy.

He is the author of GETTING TO RESOLUTION: TURNING CONFLICT INTO COLLABORATION. It was named one of the 30 Best Business Books of 1998, and called “a marvelous book” by Dr. Stephen Covey. He also wrote THE BOOK OF AGREEMENT which has been called “more practical” than the classic GETTING TO YES and named one of the best books of 2003 by CEO Refresher.

Stewart earned his BA in Economics from Syracuse University and his J.D. with honors from Rutgers University School of Law where he served on the Law Review. He teaches communication and conflict management skills for The American Management Association, CEO Space and the International Partnering Institute. He is a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley Law School and the MBA program at Dominican University of California. Stewart was recently inducted into the College of Law Practice Management.