NTR Mourns the Loss of Co-Founder and Board Member Stephen Goldberg

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Get In TouchNTR was founded by Jeanne Brett, Stephen Goldberg and Holly Schroth to facilitate research and teaching in the areas of negotiation, conflict, dispute resolution and teams.

Board of Directors

Holly Schroth

Director
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Negotiation

Strategy, Anger & Emotions, Fairness, Trust, Relationships

Education

PhD, Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Activities & Affiliations
  • Senior Lecturer and Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Management and Organizations,, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
  • Trainer, consultant, and keynote speaker on negotiation and social interaction
  • Author, negotiation teaching materials
  • Researcher, negotiations, language, and emotions

Stephen Goldberg

Director

NTR Mourns the Loss of Co-Founder and Board Member Stephen Goldberg

NTR is saddened to announce the passing of Stephen Goldberg, co-founder and esteemed board member. Steve Goldberg, an emeritus professor at the Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University, was a trailblazer in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

Steve co-authored the first law school textbook on ADR, Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration, with Frank Sander and Eric Green. His influential book, Getting Disputes Resolved, written with William Ury and Jeanne Brett, introduced three fundamental approaches to resolving disputes—interests, rights, and power—as well as the concept of systems design, which became a specialization in the ADR industry.

Among his many achievements, Steve pioneered the introduction of mediation into labor-management grievance procedures in the United States and conducted groundbreaking research demonstrating its effectiveness. His book How Mediation Works, co-authored with Jeanne Brett, Beatrice Blohorn-Brenneur, and Nancy Rogers, reflects his extensive experience and philosophy on mediation.

Steve believed that the mediator’s role was not merely to achieve a settlement but to ensure that all settlement options were thoroughly considered. This philosophy was a central theme in his keynote address when he received the International Association for Conflict Management’s Rubin Award for outstanding contributions to theory and practice.

In addition to his scholarship, Steve was an active arbitrator in labor and commercial disputes. His negotiation and dispute resolution exercises, including the widely used “Texoil” simulation, have enriched classrooms and shaped the learning of thousands of students annually.

In recognition of his contributions, in 2023 NTR established the Goldberg Fellowship, awarded to participants in the AALS Section on ADR’s New Voices in Dispute Resolution mentorship program.

NTR extends its deepest sympathy to Steve Goldberg’s family and celebrates his monumental contributions to the ADR movement and beyond.

Jeanne Brett

Director/President
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Culture & Negotiation Strategy

Multicultural teamwork, conflict management, negotiation teams

Education

PhD, University of Illinois, Psychology

Activities & Affiliations
  • DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr., Professor Emerita of Dispute Resolution and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Author and editor, negotiation and teamwork materials
  • Researcher, culture and negotiation strategy, status and power, trust, emotions in negotiations
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Donna Shestowsky

Director
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NEGOTIATION

Strategy, Applying Psychology to Resolve Legal Disputes

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University
J.D., Stanford University
M.S., Psychology, Yale University

ACTIVITIES & AFFILIATIONS
  • Martin Luther King Jr., Professor of Law and Director of Lawyering Skills Education, University of California, Davis, School of Law. Faculty for the Psychology Graduate Group, University of California, Davis.
  • Chair, Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation (elected 2021)
  • Trainer, consultant, and keynote speaker, the psychology of negotiation, strategies for counseling litigation parties on dispute resolution
  • Author, applying psychology to resolve legal disputes
  • Researcher, empirical research to understand litigant perspectives on dispute resolution