Board of Directors

Glenn Sigurdson

Glenn Sigurdson is a Research Associate and Fellow of the Morris J. Wosk Center for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University. Glenn is also a Course Instructor, School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Graduate Business Programs and in the LL.M. Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto.

A leader, he is a former President (1996) of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR), now known as the Association for Conflict Resolution, the pre-eminent international organization in the ADR field, headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Glenn has evolved a significant consultancy from a prominent legal career. He brings a decision focused, creative and energetic leadership presence that relies on strategic perspectives, tools, and skills shaped by a unique combination of experience. He has a proven track record in dealing with interactions among diverse interests - within, between, and among organizations - building relationships, achieving consensus, developing partnerships, and resolving disputes.

He has an international reputation in giving leadership to the challenges of responding to complex multi-party environments with diverse power, values and interests. He is particularly known for his work with respect to large-scale issues relating to resources and the environment, often involving First Nations.

Within organizations, he has given leadership to strategic planning exercises, and the design of dispute management systems. He has taken that body of experience and applied it in a broad range of situations – building structures to respond to difficult challenges, resolving complex litigation, developing regulatory frameworks, managing organizational change, assisting in developing innovative approaches to managing relationships in the workplace, and in the delivery of executive and management development programs in the field for over 15 years.

Glenn’s background also includes experience as a mediator, facilitator, and negotiator; he also brings with him an extensive adjudicative background as an arbitrator in workplace, commercial, and healthcare disputes, and as the Senior Vice Chair of the Manitoba Labour Relations Board (1980-1989, part time).

Glenn has written and spoken extensively, including the co-authorship of Building Consensus for a Sustainable Future: Putting Principles into Practice. He is one of the practitioners profiled in the publication of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (2000): Public Dispute Mediators: Profiles of 15 Distinguished Careers.