Stevenson Carlebach | Consultant
Stevenson is a consultant with Triad, and an independent trainer and consultant in the fields of negotiation, communication, and dispute resolution. Most of his work focuses on strategic relationship management for corporations such as Goldman Sachs, BP Amoco, L.L. Bean, Citigroup, IBM, PWC, Microsoft and Deloitte & Touche. Stevenson has worked with scores of Fortune 500 companies both in the US and abroad. In addition to teaching, Stevenson also designs programs, consults and coaches executives.
For five years, Stevenson was an instructor at Harvard Law School’s Program of Instruction for Lawyers, where he taught the Advanced Negotiation Workshop. It was here that he first began working with Doug Stone, Sheila Heen and Bruce Patton as they were working on the book, Difficult Conversations. Rumors that his difficult behavior inspired the authors to write the book are greatly exaggerated. Before coming to the field of conflict resolution, Stevenson was Associate Professor of Theater and Chair of the Department of Theater at Connecticut College. He has also taught negotiation at Georgetown University Law School.
Stevenson’s work in negotiation and dispute resolution has grown out of a commitment to collaborative problem solving, community building, and diversity. At Connecticut College he founded the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, a multidisciplinary academic center that advances teaching, learning, research, and community collaborations. The Center prepares students for lives of civic engagement and leadership while collaborating with community partners to advance the public good. He is also one of the founders of ISAAC, a new public middle school in New London, Connecticut focused on the arts and effective communication—now in its tenth year. He has also worked with the Ministries of Education in Israel and Argentina on bringing conflict resolution to schools in those countries.
Recently, Stevenson has adapted the Harvard Negotiation Project theory for family therapists. With divorce rates over 50%, couples need more skills in managing their difficult conversations. To date, Stevenson has trained over two hundred family therapists. With four children, two teens and two under that age of four, Stevenson hopes that he will learn to practice at home what he teaches on the road.
He is a graduate of Tufts University where he majored in classics and the Boston University School for the Arts where he received his Masters in Fine Arts for Directing.