Dr. Tammy Lenski teaches individuals and groups to untangle disagreements and build dynamic personal and professional partnerships by engaging conflict effectively.

In successful private practice since 1997, Tammy has taught mediation and conflict resolution to hundreds of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students; trained workplace teams throughout the U.S.; coached executives, senior teams and couples in the art of effective conflict resolution; and mediated complex business, probate and workplace disputes in organizations large and small. She works as a professional mediator, teacher, executive coach and organizational development consultant.

A long-time core faculty member in Woodbury College's well-respected master's program in mediation and applied conflict studies and instructor in the University of Massachusetts' higher education doctoral program, Tammy has taught theory, introductory and advanced skill courses, social science research methods, group processes, conflict intervention methods, negotiation, and surveys of the ADR field. In 2003 she was designated a master teacher by Woodbury and the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges.

One of the first ADR bloggers in the world, Tammy writes two well-respected blogs. Mediator Tech, a Mediate.com-featured blog, is written for fellow ADR providers and focuses on strategies for marketing and managing a successful private practce. Conflict Zen is written for anyone interested in engaging conflict more effectively; it's been recognized as one of Alltop's "best of the web" blogs and was recently accepted into the selective 9rules blog network.

After more than two decades of publication in higher education and other professional journals, Tammy's first book, Making Mediation Your Day Job: How to Market Your ADR Business Using Mediation Principles You Already Know, was released in January 2008 and is available at all major online booksellers.