About Us

CBI’s Business Practice comprises a select roster of Consensus Building Institute (CBI) staff and consultants with expertise in commercial negotiations and in working with corporations. With decades of experience and ties to the world’s foremost academic institutions, group members have helped major organizations—ranging from government agencies to Fortune 25 corporations—to improve their negotiations via high-impact training, assessment, coaching, consulting, and other services. 

About the Consensus Building Institute
Created by leading practitioners and theory builders in the fields of negotiation and dispute resolution, the Consensus Building Institute, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, works with leaders, advocates, experts, and communities to promote effective negotiations, build consensus, and resolve conflicts. CBi's Business Practice—like all of its other practice areas—begins with the premise that better negotiation process leads to better results, a central tenet of the Mutual Gains Approach to negotiation. Learn more by visiting CBI's primary website: www.cbuilding.org.

Staff

  • David Fairman
    Managing Director

    David Fairman is Managing Director at the Consensus Building Institute, Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and Lecturer in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  • Hal Movius
    Principal and Director of Training and Consulting Services

    Hal Movius is a Principal at the Consensus Building Institute and directs its Assessment, Coaching and Training services. Hal helps organizations to understand how well they are currently negotiating, and to develop systems and structures that improve how individuals and teams negotiate.

  • Lawrence Susskind
    Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer

    Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Merrick Hoben
    Director, Washington D.C. Regional Office

    Merrick Hoben is Director of the Consensus Building Institute’s Washington, D.C., Regional Office, Practitioner Associate at the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and Faculty Associate at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

  • Patrick Field
    Managing Director

    Patrick Field is Managing Director of North American Programs at CBI and Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program.

  • Stacie Nicole Smith
    Senior Associate and Director, Workable Peace

    Stacie Nicole Smith is Senior Associate and Director of Workable Peace at the Consensus Building Institute, where she works as a

Consultants

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    Andrew Wei-Min Lee
    CEO

    Andrew Lee is the founder and CEO of Leading Negotiation, a Beijing-based firm specializing in negotiation training and public policy consensus building in China. Mr. Lee has trained in negotiation skills across Greater China including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

  • Guhan Subramanian
    H. Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law

    Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School.