Melissa Manwaring
A former practicing attorney, Melissa Manwaring is the
Director of Curriculum
Development at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where
she
develops negotiation-related teaching materials and consults with
clients on
course design. She teaches negotiation
at the F.W. Olin School of Management at Babson College and as well as
an
online negotiation course at the Simmons College School for Health
Studies, and
is a former instructor for the Program on Negotiation’s Seminar on
Negotiation
and Dispute Resolution. For over six
years, she practiced commercial litigation and intellectual property
counseling
in the San Francisco Bay Area, working with a largely high-tech client
base.
Ms. Manwaring originally studied negotiation theory at Harvard Law
School with Getting
to YES co-authors Roger Fisher and Bruce Patton and was trained as
a
mediator through the Harvard Mediation Program. She
has mediated dozens of state court cases and online
commercial disputes.
As an independent negotiation trainer and consultant, Ms.
Manwaring has taught
negotiation theory and skills to hundreds of students and clients from
around
the world, including executives, attorneys, public servants, educators,
law
students, undergraduate students, and middle-school students. Her clients have ranged from corporations
such as the Bank of Norway and the law firm of Pillsbury Madison &
Sutro
(now Pillsbury Winthrop), to nonprofit organizations such as the Red
Cross and
Save the Children, to educational institutions such as Harvard
University,
Connecticut College, Boston College, and numerous public school
districts.
Ms. Manwaring holds a B.A. summa cum laude from
the
University of Illinois and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law
School. She expects to receive her
M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in March 2005.