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Steve Stovall
Professional
Mediator,
Negotiator, Instructor & Facilitator
Serving the Dallas Metroplex
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- A professional mediator
with years of experience who strongly and actively works for
mutual agreements
- Has knowledge and experience
in multiple industries
- An experienced and knowledgeable facilitator who leads
small and large planning groups, including after-reviews of real
or exercise situations
- For example, led large facilitation,
August 2007, involving approximately 60 public sector professionals
from cities and counties in North Central Texas for review of
policies after a surprise exercise
- Works as either a
court-appointed or non-court-appointed mediator as
requested
- Partner is Fred Frawley, a very experienced lawyer who specializes in oil, gas, and electrical utilities corporate law and utility regulations. He is also a trained mediator
- During mediations normally
uses the caucus method without joint meetings to help keep emotions
steady and in check. Joint meetings available upon request.
- Asks the tough questions
from the beginning
- Facilitator who keeps groups on goal and focused
- Experienced teacher available
to teach, for example, the 40-hour mediation class to meet
state requirements for mediator training or to teach one,
two, or three-day conflict management or dispute resolution classes
- Available as co-mediator,
especially for industry expertise, as requested
- Available as co-facilitator as requested
- Available for pre-mediation
consulting for strategies, session flows, approaches, etc
- Available to assist in almost any negotiations,
either as an advisor, the main negotiator, or as an assistant
negotiator as requested
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Mediations include,
but are not limited to:
- Business to business disputes, contract problems, procurement issues
- Over 30 years in computer industry
so understand computer and technology issues from development to manufacturing
and/or assembly to sales and support
- High tech issues of all kinds: engineering, marketing, procurement, manufacturing, design, service and support, sales, etc.
- Internet, including web site design
- Corporate issues of all kinds, including inter- & intra-departmental
- Disputes between corporations and their customers or suppliers
- City and county government conflicts: within and between departments,
with citizens, or with suppliers
- Real estate contracts, landlord - tenant
- Divorce, child custody, family disputes
- Insurance claims of all types from commercial to automotive
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Education includes:
- Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Dispute Resolution, Southern Methodist University
- BA, University of Texas at Dallas,
Interdisciplinary Studies, Summa cum laude
- Member, Golden Key National Honor Society
- Lifetime Certified in Production and Inventory Management, APICS, 1993-current
- The State of Texas requires only
40 hours of instruction to become a mediator and another 28 hours of instruction
if you want to do family mediations.
- Currently, I have over 320 hours of advanced graduate-level dispute resolution
formal training - including that for family mediation - plus many additional
hours of continuing education (CE) training in dispute resolution
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Other experiences include:
- Associate Professor, Collin County Community College, teaching Mediator Training, 2005 - 2006
- IBM Corporation retiree. Management, sales and technical knowledge
with enterprise experience, software experience (mainframes and PC) and hardware experience with
very large, large, and medium size customers, leading 9-22 person teams,
multiple industries, including being the liaison between IBM Legal and very
large customer legal departments.
- Experienced and knowledgeable in working with OEMs and VARs.
- Experienced and knowledgeable in the flow from
marketing to design and engineering to manufacturing and/or process to sales
and support
- Over 30 years of experience combined in corporate management and municipal
government
- Knowledgeable and experienced in multiple industries:
- High tech and telecommunications
- Manufacturing and process
- Government
- Internet, web design, creation, and hosting - webmaster
- Banking and airlines
- Insurance and utilities
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Comprehensive executive, enterprise, operational, manufacturing, and technical
knowledge in industries above, which can be very advantageous for a mediator
or a lawyer needing someone to assist as a co-mediator or someone needing a
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Community leader:
- Elected Council Member, Plano, TX City Council, 1999-2005
- Mayor Pro Tem 2003-2004
- Deputy Mayor Pro Tem 2002-2003
- Elected term limits of three terms/six years, completed May 2005
- Ar the time was a city of 240,000 people, $400 million budget
- Executive Director and Webmaster, ThePIE.org,
Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Texas corporation that is a community network
and that helps other nonprofits, 1998-Current
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Photo by Gittings
Steve is:
- Ethical
- Confidential
- Independent
- Neutral
- Impartial
- Objective
- Experienced
- Professional
Over
320 graduate hours of dispute resolution education
Over
650 hours of mediation experience.
Almost
every mediation extends beyond just the law and will most likely settle
primarily on non-legal considerations.
As
Collin County Judge Raymond Wheless has said, "We trust
non-lawyer juries
so why shouldn't we trust
non-lawyer mediators?"
(Quote used
with his permission)
Early in
the modern era of dispute resolution, executive clients normally preferred
non-lawyer
mediators for their expertise in the industry under discussion. After all, the clients had
lawyers to look after the law, and they wanted mediators who
knew business, and who knew their industry. They also wanted mediators who understood what the issues were, and what the possible complex outcomes were stemming from the decisions on those issues. In addition, they wanted mediators who
possibly knew what the unintended consequences could be, because the executives knew that much more than just the
law was always part of one of their disputes. |
