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Brett has served on executive management teams, partnered with CEOs and Board members, and has led large scale initiatives that required strong change management and organizational alignment skills. He has been consistently recognized for his contributions in aligning HR strategies with organizational goals to drive results.

Over the course of his career, he has been responsible for the leadership of HR functions for small, mid-size and large companies generating up to $3.5B in revenues. His industry experience incorporates Retail, and Financial Services and includes CHRO roles with recognized brands such as Victoria's Secret, Chico's, Coldwater Creek and Nationwide Insurance.

Brett is on the faculty of the Chicago School of Professional Psychology where he teaches Strategic Planning as well as Financial Literacy. He has a BS in Psychology from Bradley University, an MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from North Texas State University and a PhD in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Email bavner@coralbridgepartners.com  |  Direct (312) 267 2923  |  Cell (239) 989 8029

Charlie has held senior level roles in recognized Fortune 100 firms undergoing significant change, including FedEx where he was cited as "the architect of the organization's human performance system", Baxter International where he served as the Director of the Baxter Management Institute, and ADT where he was Senior Vice President of Human Resources and played a key role in the company's major turnaround effort.

He is active in professional associations, and consults with leaders and organizations across multiple industries to help them navigate change and get to the future first. Charlie has particular expertise with succession planning systems and post merger talent assessment having supported Bank of America's executive team through multiple acquisitions and integrations. He is the author of the book "Making Change Happen One Person at a Time" which was cited by the University of Michigan as one of the ten best books on change in the past forty years.

Charlie has a BS and MS in Psychology from West Virginia University and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Georgia.

Email charlie@coralbridgepartners.com  |  Direct (312) 267 2924  |  Cell (847) 404 7015

Selina Shultz has over fifteen years of extensive mediation experience. She is sought out to work with individuals and businesses as a mediator and consultant in dispute resolution. In addition to her private mediation practice, she served for thirteen years as a mediator for the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Selina is currently on the approved mediator panels for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

Selina is an innovative thinker. Through the mediation of hundreds of cases over the course of fifteen years, she has developed a mediation style that is effective and facilitative. She has an uncanny ability to bring out people’s best thinking in order to guide them to solutions.

Selina is a popular lecturer and trainer in the area of dispute resolution and has worked with individuals and businesses to provide both basic and advanced trainings in mediation and conflict resolution skills. She has served as a leader in the field, most recently serving on the Executive Board of the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania, presenting at the Association for Conflict Resolution National Conference, and helping to launch the Western District of Pennsylvania’s Prisoners Civil Rights Mediation Pilot Program.

Selina graduated in 1990 from the University of Nebraska with a BA in Political Science and obtained her JD in 1993 from the University of Pittsburgh. She is expected to graduate in the Spring of 2013 with an LLM in Dispute Resolution from The Straus Institute at The Pepperdine University School of Law, the top ranked program of its kind in the country.

Email selina@coralbridgepartners.com  |  Cell (412) 512 5228

Bob is an internationally recognized mediator and arbitrator, and co-founder of both the International Academy of Mediators and Mediators Beyond Borders. His experience spans over 30 years and, in particular, his work in training business people and lawyers in the areas of Mediation Advocacy and Decision-Making perfectly complement the work of the CoralBridge Conflict Transformation Institute. Bob has served as a mediator and arbitrator for over 5,000 days since 1979. Although he has mediated and arbitrated cases in almost every area of the law, he has extensive experience resolving death and catastrophic loss claims, medical malpractice, complex commercial and real estate transactions, construction disputes, and employment issues.

Bob is particularly adept at mediating cases with an extremely large numbers of parties, having successfully mediated cases with over 40 defendants. He has also worked with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, Office of Fair Employment Practices, as well as a salary arbitrator for Major League Baseball and a grievance arbitrator for the National Football League.

Bob has spent much of his career developing and teaching mediators, arbitrators and lawyers. He has taught credit courses at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Duquesne University School of Law and Penn State. He has published extensively and currently writes a monthly column for the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) monthly newsletter, Alternatives, under the byline “Master Mediator”. He co-created the Master Mediators Institute, which, in conjunction with well known professors in neuroscience, psychology and economics developed mediation immersion courses at Duke and UCLA which were attended by some of the most respected and recognized mediators in the country.

His international work has included presentations and trainings in England, Serbia, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, including being a Fulbright Scholar for the United States State Department.

For more information regarding Bob Creo, please call us at (312) 267 2925 or email us at info@coralbridgepartners.com