Finding New Ground
Robert Chadwick (Bob) is inter-nationally recognized for his special abilities to bring differing groups together to communicate and develop common solutions.  He has pioneered the development of consensus building techniques which foster creative solutions to old conflicts. With 29 years experience as a professional, manager, executive and internal organizational development consultant in a major Federal Agency, and 25 years as a private consultant, Bob has accumulated a comprehensive education and experience in managerial and conflict resolution strategies.  He has a proven ability to help groups and communities successfully in mission development, organizational change, team building, labor negotiations, and conflict resolution. His management development and consensus activities have involved people at all levels of the public and private sectors.  Bob has worked throughout the United States and Internationally on conflicts surrounding agriculture, technology transfer, natural resources, scarce resources allocation, education and rapid social and political change.  He has developed skills and techniques that are easily learned and are directly applicable to any management decision or conflict situation.  They can be applied to personal, interpersonal and intergroup conflicts, especially those relating to rapid change, a perception of scarcity, power struggles, managing diversity, and fostering civility.  These techniques are applied in a format in which the stakeholders learn how to seek consensus while negotiating and resolving their conflict. He creates an environment in which the participants develop a belief that consensus is possible and they are willing to take the risk to make it happen.  He has facilitated consensus solutions in over 1,500 situations involving more than 30,000 people in this country and internationally.  He is conversant with the issues and concerns of public agency and private industry managers, educators, professionals, elected officials from Federal to local levels, environmentalists, union members, loggers, miners, ranchers, housewives, professionals, American Indians and other cultural groups, attorneys, and others on contemporary issues.  The process has been applied in numerous countries, including India, Thailand, Egypt, Singapore, Canada, England, Belgium, Hong Kong. Bob lives with his wife in Terrebonne, OR.  They have 8 children, 23 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren.  This book is written for them.