Lisa Drake

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“Focused, energetic, committed and helpful right through the end.”

Overview

Accredited Mediator, executive coach and mediation and conflict management trainer, Lisa Drake has over 20 years of experience of mediation and conflict management. She is passionate about assisting parties to reach acceptable and workable solutions to enable all parties to focus on the future.

Having worked in mediation for over 20 years Lisa is a leading mediator, trainer and executive coach working with organisations and individuals to guide them through difficult situations and disputes. Drawing on corporate board level experience Lisa also works as a consultant with a wide range of corporate and public sector organisations to embed mediation into their culture, overcome systemic problems and assist them through difficulties arising from organisational failures and / or periods of change.

Lisa’s mediation practice spans a wide range of sectors including a specialism in Employment and Workplace. She brings a deep understanding of both the strategic and pragmatic issues that are often present in commercial disputes, but she is also noted for her ability to work with people at all levels and assisting organisations and individuals to resolve disputes and/or differences that are impacting on their ability to move forward. She is passionate about assisting parties to reach acceptable and workable solutions to enable all parties to focus on the future whilst also, where appropriate, identifying lessons that can be learnt to prevent issues in the future.

Professional Background

Lisa is an experienced Board Director, providing strategic guidance to senior teams whilst also overseeing strategy implementation across organisations, including the responsibility for HR, operations, marketing, during times of organisational change.

Lisa previously held a Director role within CEDR, with over 12 years of working at the centre of the mediation field. Aside from her business positions, mediating and coaching Lisa is also a member of CEDR’s training faculty as a lead trainer for the Employment and Workplace Mediator Skills Training and Conflict Management courses and a coach and assessor for the Commercial Mediator Skills Training course.

With experience of working with the most junior to Board level she is widely acknowledged for her ability to build rapport at every level and possesses strong interpersonal skills with an ability to challenge sensitively. This is a signature of her approach across all her professional practices.

Lisa graduated from The University of Liverpool with a BA (Hons) in Sociology, specialising in Socio Legal Studies, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and is on the Henley Management College Register of Coaches.

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