Julie Denny

Julie Denny het meer as vyftien jaar in die korporatiewe wêreld voor die vertaling van haar sakevaardighede in 'n voltydse bemiddeling loopbaan. Regie die bemarking, sake-ontwikkeling en produk ontwikkeling proses vir 'n reeks van nuusdienste by Dow Jones, McGraw-Hill en die Associated Press, Denny bestuur uiteenlopende bevolkings van redakteurs, tegniese genieë en bemarking en verkope personeel, leer eerstehands hoe krities effektiewe kommunikasie is om die werkplek.

In haar werk, Julie onderhandel dekades van intellektuele eiendom kontrakte met uitgewers, sagteware-ontwikkelaars en inligting diensverskaffers. As direkteur van bemarking aktiwiteite, Sy het saam met baie verskillende advertensie-agentskappe, ontwikkeling van kreatiewe bemarking strategieë en gebruik van die Internet, dan in sy kinderskoene, to deliver marketing messages and products and services to a variety of customers.

In 1993, Julie left the business world and was trained in mediation. Today she serves as a contract mediator for the United States Postal Service, the Department of Justice, through the Key Bridge Foundation, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Transportation Security Administration.

Her business background and her mediation/communication skills have made for a successful partnership. Denny counts among her consulting clients Tyson Foods, American Express, Christie’s Auction House, Draft Worldwide, McCann Erickson, Johnson & Johnson, Scholastic Publishing, Pharmanet and dozens of not-for-profit organizations, including Roundabout Theatre Company. She works hand-in-hand with clients to identify their communication issues and implement programs to address them. Her work may include mediation of specific disputes, communication coaching for individuals, training programs for larger groups or ongoing facilitation of dialogue among members of a task force seeking better communication. She also helps organizations design and implement formal Dispute Resolution Systems.

An advanced practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, Denny is also president of the Greater New York Chapter of that Association and a regular reviewer of books on dispute resolution for Library Journal and an adjunct professor at Hofstra School of Law. She also teaches civil mediation at Fairleigh Dickinson College.

She is a frequent speaker on communication issues and has addressed audiences at conferences run by the Society of Association Executives, Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, International Women in Communication, International Association of Conference Centers, Academy of Family Mediators, the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Association of Advertising Agencies.

Prior to her business career, Denny spent ten years in the theatre.