Matt is a member of the OvalOptions panel and specializes in the resolution of workplace and employment disputes. He is a neutral skilled in identifying the underlying causes of conflict and helping parties come to mutually agreeable solutions.

Matt honed his alternative dispute resolution (ADR) skills during his 30-year career with the Federal Labor Relations Authority where he served as the Denver Regional Director for 10 years before his retirement in 2014. He spearheaded the Region’s ADR and training initiatives, leading over 100 training presentations and facilitating dozens of groups intent on improving their labor-management relationship.

Matt has mediated hundreds of labor-management, business, community and domestic relations disputes, but he specializes in labor-management, workplace, and employment disputes. Since 2005, Matt has volunteered as a mediator with Jefferson County (Colorado) Mediation Services where he has twice been recognized as Mediator of the Year for Workplace Cases and once as Mediator of the Year for Divorce and Parenting Cases.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and obtained his law degree from George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Matt is a member of the Maryland Bar (inactive). His specialized training in ADR includes interest-based bargaining training from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, negotiation and mediation training at Harvard Law School’s program on negotiation, mediation training from Mares-Dixon and Associates, and labor arbitration training from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. 

Specialties:

·       Facilitation and mediation of workplace and employment disputes

·       Workplace and employment investigations

·       Labor-management relations

·       Organizational consulting

·       Community, business and domestic relations

Processes:

·       Mediation

·       Facilitation

·       Investigation

·       Arbitration

Professional Memberships:

·       Mediation Association of Colorado (Professional Member)

·       Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Roster of Arbitrators

Fun Fact:

Matt spent five years as a young child in Finland when his father was stationed in Helsinki. Matt’s first school experiences were in Finnish kindergarten and British primary school