About Glenn
Glenn’s career has taken him to many places across Canada and around the world. An interesting way of quickly understanding the breadth and diversity of the work he has undertaken is to click here to visit a map that overviews some illustrative career highlights.
Glenn has evolved a significant consultancy from a prominent legal career. He brings a decision-focused, creative and energetic leadership presence that relies on strategic perspectives, tools, and skills shaped by a unique combination of experience.
He has a proven track record in dealing with interactions among diverse interests – within, between, and among organizations – building relationships, achieving consensus, developing partnerships, and resolving disputes.
Between and among organizations and groups, he has an international reputation in giving leadership to the challenges of responding to complex multi-party environments with diverse power, values and interests. He is particularly known for his work with respect to large-scale issues relating to resources and the environment, often involving First Nations.
Within organizations, he has given leadership to strategic planning exercises, and the design of dispute management systems. He has taken that body of experience and applied it in a broad range of situations – building structures to respond to difficult challenges, resolving complex litigation, developing regulatory frameworks, managing organizational change, assisting in developing innovative approaches to managing relationships in the workplace, and in the delivery of executive and management development programs in the field for over 15 years.
Glenn’s background includes experience as a mediator, facilitator, and negotiator; he also brings with him an extensive adjudicative background as an arbitrator in workplace, commercial, and healthcare disputes, and as the Senior Vice Chair of the Manitoba Labour Relations Board (1980-1989, part time).
Glenn is associated with Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC, where he is an adjunct Professor in, and an associate of the Learning Strategies Group of, the Faculty of Business. He is also a Senior Dialogue Associate of the Morris J. Wosk Center for Dialogue.
A leader, he is a former President (1996) of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR), now known as the Association for Conflict Resolution, the pre-eminent international organization in the ADR field, headquartered in Washington, D.C He has recently been appointed to the NAFTA Advisory Group, established under Article 2022 of the NAFTA Agreement to deal with international private commercial disputes as one of the Canadian non-government members.
Glenn has written and spoken extensively, including the co-authorship of Building Consensus for a Sustainable Future: Putting Principles into Practice. He is one of the practitioners profiled in the publication of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (2000): Public Dispute Mediators: Profiles of 15 Distinguished Careers.
