Linda Laurance

Director

Linda is a CEDR Accredited mediator with over ten years’ experience who specialises in the mediation of interpersonal and employment disputes and is a co-ordinator of the Special Education Needs Mediation Service.

In addition, she leads training courses on conflict awareness and management and on dealing with workplace disputes. She was a founder member and chairman of South Central Mediation.

As a board director of Global Mediation who has been with the company since the very beginning, Linda is responsible for corporate oversight, staff welfare and facilitates staff meetings and off-site away days.

“Global Mediation builds long-term relationships with its clients and is deeply committed to the provision and promotion of mediation and its benefits”

Career highlights include –

• Chaired the working party which produced the Good Governance Code for the Voluntary and Community Sector
• Chairs the implementation group for Trustee and Management Committee National Occupational Standards
• Achieved national recognition having been described as a “governance guru” in ThirdSector magazine (Opinion leader, 20 September 2006)
• Co-wrote (with Anne Radford) “You’re not listening to me!” Dealing with disputes: Mediation and its benefits for voluntary organisations, published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) in August 2003

Linda has very little spare time but when she finds a quiet moment, she can be found working in the garden, listening to opera and travelling around Europe.