Singapore, Singapore
Keith has more than 35 years' experience as a teacher, trainer, advisor, and practitioner of Negotiation, Conflict Management, and Crisis Management; with experience in more than 135 countries on thousands of high stakes commercial negotiations, peace processes, ceasefire negotiations, and hostage negotiations. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Sea-Change Partners in Singapore (established in 2000). He has served as a Conflict Advisor to the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank, and was a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project, at Harvard Law School. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the National University of Singapore (from the Harvard Kennedy School). He is the co-author of "Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists" (Praeger, 2007). Keith is currently a Visiting Professor at the Sasin Institute of Management at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence & Strategic Studies at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), where he was also Head of the Asian Programme on Negotiation & Conflict Management (APNCM) from 2002 - 2007. Keith was a research assistant and then Special Assistant to the Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project (Prof. Roger Fisher, author of Getting to YES) from 1991 to 1999. He was a Teaching Fellow in Negotiation at Harvard Law School and in International Mediation & Conflict Resolution at the Harvard Kennedy School. He worked with the Conflict Management Group and Conflict Management, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1991 - 1999. Keith worked as a counter-terrorism analyst in Washington, DC and is one of the “Voices from the Field” advisory group on humanitarian emergencies in areas of conflict. He is a Member of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA) based in Washington, DC, and an associate member of the Singapore Institute for International Affairs. Keith has a B.A. from Tufts University, has studied and taught negotiation at Harvard Law School, and holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is a former martial arts champion and was a martial arts instructor for over twenty years. Keith is also a photographer.
Teaching courses on Negotiation and Influence, Conflict Management, and Crisis Leadership
Sea-Change Partners is a leading firm specializing in Negotiation, Influence, and Conflict Management skills training, executive coaching, and strategic advice. We train and advise senior executives and managers in the private sector, as well as senior officials in government and international organizations, worldwide. We are not just trainers, but experienced practitioners; having worked on high-stakes business deals and partnerships, as well as hostage crises and more than 60 peace processes, worldwide. Contact: [email protected]
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