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Susanne is CEDR’s Director of Training and Consultancy and she is an experienced business and intercultural trainer, facilitator, mediator and coach. Susanne is a qualified lawyer and an accredited mediator in the U.K., Germany and Switzerland. She has been working in the dispute resolution field since the mid 1990’s and has facilitated more than 100 mediation processes in recent years. Her clients mainly originate from the corporate and NGO world and community and intercultural mediation also form part of Susanne’s dispute resolution work. Susanne spends most of her time helping organisations reverse conflict, build trust through discovering purpose, and, facilitating the growth of peace centred equity. Her work stretches from Mongolia to the USA and from Finland down to Rwanda. She has coached numerous senior executives and she connects special individuals possessing high value assets through active public speaking, facilitating group trainings as a mediator, and, when working in support of senior women’s groups. She has written papers on effective conflict resolution and negotiation in French, German and English. Born in Namibia, Susanne has lived, studied and worked in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Belgium, and the Americas.