Dawn Martin
Esquire

Education: • JD, Catholic University of America, 1986 • BA, Sociology, University of Maryland, 1979 Licenses:  • District of Columbia (Law) Association Memberships: • Member, Association for Conflict Resolution • Board Member, DC Chapter Association for Conflict Resolution (2005 – 2007) • Board Member, ADR Committee, International Law Institute (2005 – present)

Dawn Martin is a facilitator, mediator and trainer.  She began her work in the field of dispute resolution in 1979 with the Center for Dispute Settlement (then the Center for Community Justice). An attorney by training, she practiced law for ten years (1986 – 1996), during which she founded and managed Martin, Bodley & Kraft, a Washington, DC employment and immigration law firm.

Martin serves public and private sector institutions, as well as individuals. Within organizations, she works with individuals and groups to enhance communication and collaboration, increase job satisfaction, and develop optimal individual and collective productivity.

Having been actively involved in training throughout her career, she has trained mediators, mediation program administrators, judges, advocates and others, in the United States and abroad. She has trained most extensively in the areas of communication, mediation, negotiation, conflict management, dispute resolution system design, peer mediation, advocacy in mediation, and the pedagogy of mediation training.

Ms. Martin’s international dispute resolution work has included the design and monitoring of numerous local, state and national programs, facilitation of strategic planning initiatives, and legislative and regulatory counsel.

Long-term consultancies have been with the American Bar Association, the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Center for Dispute Settlement.

In 2007, Ms. Martin established Simply in Place, LLC, specializing in paper and electronic information management policies, procedures and tools. Where appropriate, these services are offered as a complement to the conflict management and other related services described above. Further information regarding this aspect of Ms. Martin’s work is available at www.simplyinplace.com.

Ms. Martin provides each of the services described above in Spanish, as well as English.

Relevant Facilitation Experience:

1) Training of Facilitators: Provides facilitator training for Transportation Safety Administration staff members charged with facilitating dialogue within the organization. Project began in February 2007 and will continue for several months, at a minimum. 

2) Facilitation of Workplace Issues:  Following completion of climate surveys in 2006 and 2007, facilitated dialogue among staff, mid-level managers and senior managers of a federal agency.
The goals of these dialogues included addressing discrete issues identified in the climate surveys; enhancing communication and collaboration among staff, and between staff and managers; and increasing individual and collective productivity. Methodology employed in this project included individual meetings prior to the large-group facilitations, individual conflict style assessments and related coaching, and one-on-one strategy sessions with staff and managers to ensure effectiveness of facilitated meetings. 

3)  Facilitation of Dispute Resolution System Design Initiatives:  Facilitated national dispute resolution planning initiatives in Mexico (American Bar Association, 2001 – 2006), Nicaragua (American Bar Association, 2006 – 2007), El Salvador (Chemonics International, Inc., 1999 – 2003) and Bolivia (InterAmerican Bar Foundation, 1996). Details regarding each of these assignments, as well as others not mentioned here, are attached.

Relevant Training Experience:

1) International Mediation Training:  Served as the lead trainer for two long-term projects of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Latin American Legal Initiatives Council. The first, a five-year project, encompassed 36 states in Mexico (2000 – 2005). The second engaged Chambers of Commerce, government ministries, free-trade organizations and others institutions throughout Nicaragua (2006 – 2007).  
Prior to her work with the ABA, she was the lead trainer for a United States Agency for International Development dispute resolution project in El Salvador (1998 – 2000) under the auspices of Chemonics International, Inc. Other international training experience included dispute resolution projects in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Zambia. She has also had teaching assignments with the International Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution in The Hague and Mexico, the International Law Institute in Washington, DC, as well as others.

2) Domestic Mediation Training:  Provided mediation training for numerous agencies and institutions, among others the American Federation of Government Employees (2006, 2007), Center for Dispute Settlement (1996 – 2007), Student Intervention Services Branch of DC Public Schools (2000 – 2007), International Monetary Fund (2006), Veterans Benefits Administration (2006), Advanced Dispute Resolution Systems (2005), and the DC Superior Court Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division (1999 – 2000).