Robin Amadei, J.D.

Robin has been the director and a practicing mediator at Common Ground Mediation Center for the last 14 years where she mediated employment, commercial, real estate, environmental, and family cases. Robin is an experienced organizational team-builder, facilitator, trainer and coach. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver, University College, the Department of Applied Communication and for the USDA. She is one of four mediators on contract with the Colorado Department of Education as a special education mediator and facilitator. She is a past mediator for the EEOC, a training coach for CDR Associates, and a certified administrator of the Meyers Briggs Training. She is a frequent speaker at national and local conferences, chambers of commerce and professional organizations on various alternative dispute resolution topics. Robin is an active member of the Colorado Council of Mediators and Mediation Organizations (CCMO) and a founding member and former President (1995-1997) of CCMO-Boulder. Robin is a member of the Colorado Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Membership Chair; former co-chair of the Boulder Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Boulder Real Estate Law Committee, Family Law Committee, and member of the Colorado and Boulder Women's Bar Association. She is an Advanced Practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and has published numerous articles on mediation.

Christine Coates, J.D.

Christine Coates is an experienced attorney in Boulder, Colorado whose solo practice emphasizes alternative dispute resolution. With a B.A. in psychology and sociology and a M.Ed. in adult counseling, Christie brought a rich and varied background in management and education to her "change of career" law practice which she began in 1983. She was named "Outstanding Young Lawyer in Colorado" by the Colorado Bar Association in 1986, "Mediator of the Year" by the Colorado Council of Mediators and Mediation Organizations in 1996, received an award for her advocacy on behalf of children from Voices for Children of Boulder, Colorado in 1996, and was the recipient of the 1999 Community Service Award of the Boulder Interdisciplinary Committee on Child Custody. She recently was presented the 2003 Award of Merit by the Boulder County Bar Association for her outstanding achievement and dedication to the legal profession and service to the community.

A past president of the Metropolitan Lawyer Referral Service (MLRS), she has been a consultant for the American Bar Association, providing technical assistance to lawyer referral services around the country. She remains active in the Boulder Interdisciplinary Committee and is a past president of that organization. She is a past president of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, an international interdisciplinary organization. Christie also served on the American Bar Association's Task Force on Standards of Practice for Divorce Mediation and served on the steering committee of an inter-organizational effort that finalized these Standards. She chairs the AFCC Task Force on Parenting Coordination which is developing standards for Parenting Coordinators. She has co-chaired the ABA’s Dispute Resolution Section’s ADR and Family Functions Committee and the Family Law Section’s Mediation Committee.

Christie has been an adjunct professor of domestic relations and of mediation at the University Of Colorado School of Law and of family alternative dispute resolution at the University of Denver. Trained in arbitration by the American Arbitration Association, she has an active arbitration practice and has also expanded the process of mediation-arbitration to its use in post-dissolution families, training nationally on the use of med-arb and parenting coordination in family conflict. She is a co-author of Working with High-Conflict Families of Divorce: A Guide for Practitioners (Jason Aronson Publishers, 2001) and Learning from Divorce (Jossey-Bass, 2003).

Claire Riley, RN, MS

Claire Riley is a registered nurse with an advanced degree in psychiatric nursing and completed her mediation training in 1990 at CDR Associates. For over 14 years, Claire had been active in her role as patient representative and hospital mediator at Boulder Community Hospital (BCH). In her role at BCH, she has been part of the movement to create a mediation option for patients who have grievances with their care.

Claire was also involved with the creation of a mediation process for hospital staff who they find themselves in conflict with one another. To date, the BCH mediation process has celebrated 10 years of excellence in conflict resolution. Claire is also a veteran member of the Clinical Ethics Committee which reviews and consults on cases of ethical dilemmas.

Earlier in her career, Claire served as Director of the Behavioral Health Unit at BCH and as Nursing Director at Boulder County Hospice. Claire has volunteered as a CASA and has sat on the Board of Directors at the Boulder College of Massage Therapy. She is currently a Trustee at Fraser Meadows Retirement Community. Claire lives in Boulder with her husband, artist John Matlack. They enjoy cooking, hiking, and reading. But the light of all lights in their lives is Jordan, their three year old granddaughter. Jordan provides the contemplative balance-when she is around, and that is often-and a reminder that there is nothing but the present.

Sat Tara Kaur Khalsa, M.S., L.P.C.

Sat Tara is a licensed psychotherapist, divorce mediator and consultant, court-appointed special child advocate, and board member of the Boulder Interdisciplinary Committee on Child Custody Issues. Sat Tara has extensive experience in custody evaluations and investigations in the context of child abuse and neglect and sexual abuse. She is certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and trained in Eriksonian Hypnotherapy. She received training in Collaborative Family Law and is a member of the Rocky Mountain Collaborative Law Professionals. Sat Tara has been in the mental health field for approximately 30 years, since her graduation from Smith College as a First Group Scholar. Her volunteer work has included: running a residential holistic psychotherapeutic center for 10 years, organizing a woman’s project which resulted in action by the World Health Organization, acting as program coordinator and president of Women Caring for Women for three years, serving as a steering committee member and presenter of the Interface Council of Boulder, working at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, and performing community service in France. Sat Tara is a certified instructor of Kundalini Yoga and has taught yoga and spiritual development classes extensively for 31 years. Sat Tara developed the Personal Wellness Program and helped develop an Aikido-based model of handling high-conflict encounters.

Louise Wildee, MBA, MA

Louise, the principal at Accelerated Dispute Resolution, is a mediator, facilitator, coach, and trainer with a business and psychology background.  She is an Advanced Practitioner Mediator of Workplace Mediation through the Association for Conflict Resolution and holds the Professional Mediator status for both Family and Civil Mediation with the Colorado Council of Mediators.  Louise has extensive training with many leaders in the field of mediation and has taken over 20 advanced trainings in mediation, negotiation, and arbitration during her long career as a mediator. 
Louise is an active member and past President of the Colorado Council of Mediators (CCMO) and an active member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR).  She has served on many court, commercial and community panels in addition to her own practice.

Ms. Wildee’s prior career was in business and finance; she is a former CPA who has held senior executive positions with Fortune 500 companies.  Louise earned an MBA from the University of Denver and an MA in Counseling Psychology from the University of Santa Monica.  Louise received a BA and a BS from the University of Colorado.  She continues to be involved in personal business interests.  Louise resides with her family in the Denver, Colorado area and is involved with community and restorative justice programs.

Anthony W. Wade, Ph.D., PHR

Dr. Anthony Wade is an accomplished consultant, trainer, facilitator, diversity and employee relations mediator, and educator who has served in leadership positions in the military and public sector.   An award-winning program manager and sought-after presenter, he has successfully led and managed human resources, human relations, and diversity programs. A retired military veteran, Dr. Wade has a B.A. in Human Resources Administration from Saint Leo University, a M.A. in Management from Webster University, and a Ph.D. in Education and Human Resource Studies from Colorado State University.  He has completed IADR’s Advanced Practitioner in Mediation (APM) program and is nationally certified as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) by the Human Resources Certification Institute of the Society for Human Resources Management. 

Dr. Wade’s past and present affiliations include, but are not limited to, the City of Aurora’s (Colorado) Human Relations Commission, the Aurora (Colorado) Police Chief’s Roundtable, and the New Hanover County Commission for Women. He has also served on the executive committees/board of directors for the Wilmington (North Carolina) Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, H.O.L.A. (Help Our Latin Americans), Cape Fear Area United Way, National Association of Human Rights Workers-North Carolina Chapter, National Association of African-Americans in Human Resources and LEADERSHIP North Carolina.

Stanley J. Scott, MPA

Stan is principal partner in CIVICUS Associates an organization that blends mediation, consulting, training, coaching, facilitation, community involvement, and conflict and change management skills to co-create with clients interventions that improve working relationships while discovering more effective ways of doing business. He has a rich history of working for government including Continuous Improvement Coordinator for the City of Longmont, Assistant to the City Manager for City of Longmont, Citizen Participation Coordinator for the City of Wichita, and Interim Executive Director for the Mid-American All-Indian Center of Wichita Stan began his career in teaching as a social studies teacher in the Wichita school system and is delighted to be back teaching again with IADR.

Stan has received numerous training in conflict resolution including Conflict Resolution (Mediation, Multi-party Dispute Resolution, Victim-Offender Mediation, and Restorative Justice); Group Facilitation (Future Search, ICA Technology of Participation -Guided Dialogue, Action Planning, Strategic Planning, Large Group Intervention and Planning Processes); Coaching (Coaches Training Institute); Citizen Participation; and Train-the-Trainer.

Marcia Swain, JD

Marcia has been in private practice as a Colorado attorney mediator for over 25 years. She has extensive experience in real estate (including sizeable, complex purchase/sale transactions and financing), land use (including frequent interactions with units of government such as planning commission, city councils, boards of county commissioners, the US Forest Service and the BLM) and small business mediation. In addition, she has conducted hundreds of domestic relations conflicts and is the co-author of High Integrity Divorce, which is a source book for divorcing and separating couples as well as mediators of family conflicts. As General Counsel to the Powderhorn Recreation & Development Company, Marci structure the acquisition of the bankrupt ski resort and reassembly of ownership of the resort real estate, managed master plan formulation and platting and construction for he resort’s first single family subdivision. She is familiar with all aspects of special district formation, finance operations and management.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner,
and it is for you to find the other three.

~~Confucius