Triad partners with clients to ensure that the work we do together produces skills and solutions that are relevant and realistic. We invite participants in our courses to bring real, current challenges, and we use those challenges to unpack and teach the materials, and apply what they're learning to the world in which they operate. Our clients span the corporate and non-profit worlds, as well as six continents.

 
A small sampling of our corporate clients:

ACE Bermuda
Nationwide
Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC)
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Boston Children's Hospital
Prudential
Citigroup
Rio Tinto
Cracker Barrel
Royal Bank of Scotland
EQUATE of Kuwait
Shell
Federal Reserve Bank
Spencer Stuart
Fidelity
Standard Bank of South Africa
Genzyme
Standard Chartered
Hewlett-Packard
Time-Warner
Honda
Turner Broadcasting
Howrey
Unilever
IBM
US Postal Service
Johnson & Johnson
US Social Security Administration
Massachusetts General Hospital
United Technologies
Merck
Warburg Pincus
Modernista
WilmerHale

 

Some sample projects from our non-profit sector work:
 
The Citadel MilitaryCollege of South Carolina. Advising The Citadel as it transitions to co-education. Providing leadership skills to cadets, some policy advice to administration, and facilitating the relationship between the college and the Department of Justice.
 
Conference for Police and Community in Springfield, Massachusetts. Addressing racial tension between members of the community and the police force in the wake of incidents between police and minority citizens.
 
Louisiana State University. Providing leadership training to student leaders and administrators in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
 
Nationwide Organ Donation Project. Collaborating with researcher and requestors working to increase the rate of organ donation. Developed training for requestors who talk with families about the decision to donate.
 
Sexual Assault Collaborative. Facilitating conversations among Boston area prosecutors, police officers, nurses, rape hotline personnel and victim witness advocates to coordinate and strengthen the services available to rape victims.
 
Harvard College. Teaching administrators and residential advisors how to counsel students on issues like depression, alcohol abuse, anorexia, and date rape.
 
UNAIDS.
 
University of Kashmir.
 
Birzeit University, Ramallah.
 
UJC - United Jewish Communities.
 
 
Some of our international work:
 
The Singapore Supreme Court. Providing training for Supreme Court Judges, as well as advanced training for mediators with the newly formed and court-annexed Singapore Mediation Centre.
 
Organization of African Unity, Ethiopia. Teaching methods of managing intractable conflict to diplomats from every country in Africa.
 
Israel-Palestine. We have worked with negotiators on each side of the Israel-Palestine negotiations, helping them talk with each other about the issues and impasses they face. In addition, our colleagues in Israel used Difficult Conversations in the negotiations to free hostages at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and to train Israeli soldiers sent to move settlers out of Gaza.
 
Ethiopian Parliament. Working with colleagues at CMPartners, delivering negotiation training to new members of the Ethiopian Parliament, who must govern by coalition rather than by fiat for the first time in decades.
 
Center for International Rehabilitation (formerly Physicians Against Landmines). Providing facilitation and strategic planning assistance to the executive leadership team.
 
NASA. Discussing the stresses and challenges faced by astronauts serving on the international space station, and providing access for the Difficult Conversations book to be downloaded onto the flight computers.
 
 
 

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