Rosemary's Experience

Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws, Melbourne University.
Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Victoria.
Solicitor, Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Doctor of Juridical Science, University of Technology Sydney.
NMAS Nationally Accredited Mediator.
Accredited Administrator, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

Specialised Competence
Mediation, Communication, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution coaching, advice and training.
Strategic and conflict coaching and strategic planning to business and government.
Planning for and facilitation of business meetings.
Curriculum design and delivery of in-house training and development programs.

Experience
Experience as a lawyer, strategic planner, teacher and a term as Secretary General of the Law Council of Australia.
My company, Strategic Action Pty Ltd and its associated business, Strategic Resolution, delivers mediation, coaching, facilitation, strategic planning and training services to a diverse range of business and government clients nationally and internationally.
I teach dispute resolution at undergraduate level and ADR and negotiation at postgraduate level at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Further training and experience
Harvard Negotiation basic and advanced training programs 1987,1991, 1995, 2002 and 2006.
Teaching Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Program June 1991 and Mediation Program in 1995.
Teaching Assistant with the Harvard Faculty (including Professor Roger Fisher) in Melbourne in 1988 and Sydney in 1994.
Harvard Mediation Pedagogy Conference 2009.
Development and Implementation of the Masters of Dispute Resolution Program, UNSW 2009 which has now been rolled into the combined LLM program as a specialty.
UC Berkeley Mindfulness Initiative 2010.
Visiting Professor, Catholica University Lisbon, February 2011. UIA programs – presenting research in ADR, Florence 2009 and 2011; Krakow 2016; Singapore 2017; Paris 2018.
Coach, UNSW team in the invitation only ICC Mediation Competition Paris 2006 – 2021, in which UNSW teams reached the final rounds in all but 3 years and were winners in 2016 and 2018 from a field of 66 international competitors.

Memberships, appointments and board positions
1980: Member, Council of Legal Education Victoria.
1980-81: Executive Member, Association of Conference Executives.
1980-82: Secretary-General, Law Council of Australia. Foundation Executive Member, Law Practice Management Section, Law Council of Australia.
1980-83: Attorney-General's Committee on Legal Information Retrieval. Managing Editor, Australian Law News. Member, Computerised Legal Information Committee, Victoria Law Foundation.
1981-83: Board Member, Faculty of Law, Monash University.
1982-91: Board Member, Council of Adult Education, Victoria.
1983: Chairman, Committee on Staff Conditions, Council of Adult Education.
1986-87: Chairman, General Practice Section, Law Council of Australia.
1992-96: Member Professional Development and Practice Management Committee, Law Society of New South Wales and of its Quality Sub-Committee.
1993-96: Chairman, Marketing Committee, Law Society of New South Wales.
1994-05: Lecturer - (Postgraduate) Negotiation, University of Technology Sydney.
1997-09: Lecturer (from 2008 Adjunct Lecturer) - Alternative Dispute Resolution, UNSW.
1997-02: Director, New South Wales Board of QL (formerly Quality in Law).
2002 -11: Director, Board of QL Incorporated (delivering Law 9000). Board member of 2 professional service companies.
2006: Member, Legal Service Commissioner’s Committee on Conflicts.
2009-present: Professorial Visiting Fellow UNSW.
2010-present: Member, Rules Working Group, ICC International Commercial Mediation 3 Competition.
2013: UNSW Award for Academic Service for 'significant contribution towards developing, enabling and supporting community and collegiality at the Law School'. (An inaugural LEADR Award for 'significant contribution to ADR’).
2013-present International Who's Who of Commercial Mediation - Strategic Resolution named top Australia-Pacific mediation practice in 2018, 2019 and 2020. And ranked (via peer evaluation) by Who’s Who Australia in the top 4 mediators in the country.
2015 - 2017 Board member, Resolution Institute.
2015 – 2018 Member, Rules Working Group, CDRC International Commercial Mediation Competition, Vienna.
2020 Named by International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediation as one of three Australian mediators who are Global Elite Thought Leaders.
2020 - 2022: Named by International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediation as one of three Australian mediators who are Global Elite Thought Leaders.