Martha Bean is a Senior Mediator at RESOLVE. She is a seasoned professional with over twenty-five years of experience with special expertise in mediating complex multi-party natural resource disputes, facilitating groups to focus on results. She has worked intensively with over 50 multi-party groups to reach agreements, manage resources and set action plans. She guides groups as they prepare technical and policy products, providing supportive and strategic leadership to organizations, agencies and businesses. Martha’s unique skills include the ability to create visual depictions of complex systems and key concepts, to assess  conflicts and issues, to design systems for resolution, and an ability to teach collaborative methods using interactive methods and real examples. Projects include: siting public facilities, distributing water rights, dam relicensing, making information on toxics available electronically, establishing rules for the oversight of water and wastewater systems, disbursement of federal lands, management of nuclear waste clean-up and land use disputes. Martha has mediated complex agreements on topics as diverse as rulemaking for the licensure of water engineers, habitat , endangered species monitoring and habitat protection, and parameters for the collection and use of scientific information at the negotiating table. She has managed major assessment and decision projects with budgets ranging from ten thousand dollars to several million dollars. For these projects, she has garnered resources and staff, monitored and tracked progress, delivered products on time and within budget. Martha has guided strategic planning and future vision efforts for non-profit groups, municipalities, consortiums and state departments, yielding durable results through collaboratively created products. Martha creates and delivers workshops, lectures and trainings on mediation, facilitation, and decision processes with a focus on public policy and environmental issues. Participants consistently rate trainings as ‘excellent’, ‘outstanding’ and ‘very responsive and interactive’.

Education

Post Graduate Studies, Emphasis: the integration of science into public policy decisions.
University of Washington School of Forestry. 1998-2000.

Master of Arts, Environmental Planning,
University of California at Berkeley. 1981.

Bachelor of Science, Environmental Planning,
Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University. 1978.