Birgitta:  

"With a legal background in international law and after completing a post-doctoral program in World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University and the Mediation program in 2014, I formally became a mediator in the United States. Here I was affiliated as a mediator with the General District Courts of Virginia. In 2015, I subsequently joined the Mediators federation Netherlands (MfN) register. Due to my work experience abroad, including the United States, Suriname, Bangladesh and Belgium, I am very experienced in working with people from different cultural backgrounds. I have also worked with organizations such as the International Court of Justice, UNICEF, UN Development Program, the World Bank, the European Commission and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and therefore know very well what it is like to work in and with large international organizations, including those with diplomatic status.

In recent years I have mainly worked in mediations with employment and business issues. Both individual mediations and groups. Both in Dutch and English. Clients are diverse: from SMEs to multinationals, embassies and international organizations."

Experience in mediations:

More than 450 mediations completed since 2014, including:

• Manager and a specialist who did not understand each other due to cultural differences and misunderstandings in communication.

• Partner and lawyer had a conflict about management style and wanted to part ways.

• Manager and employee who developed a relationship of trust that was eventually no longer desired by the employee.

• Assisting with exit negotiations at an international organization.

• De-escalate a neighborhood dispute in 1 day.

• Helping father and son on their way to renewed relationships.

• Helping a Romanian and an English woman who did not understand each other, towards a better working relationship in a one-day mediation.

• Employee without a prospect of promotion while the desire was there – further support in the choice of separation.

• Truck drivers with a conflict about the fact that they went freelance and bought their own car.