Jennifer Beer, PhD
Practice Lead: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Dr. Jennifer Beer is a mediator, facilitator, professor, trainer, writer and anthropologist who guides organizations and communities in negotiating conflicts and cross-cultural issues. She works around the world in these roles to enhance understanding and productivity across borders.
Since 2001, Jenny has taught Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. She also regularly teaches negotiation at ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens, Greece and has led the Certificate in Conflict Resolution program at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of The Mediator’s Handbook, a comprehensive, award-winning guide to the mediation discipline.
When not focused on dispute and conflict, Jenny taps her skills as an interculturalist and instructional designer, creating intercultural training for multicultural groups and global corporations. She has worked around the globe on programs for leaders and most recently designed and facilitated programs for women leaders in Afganistan and Kyrgystan.
Her clients include state agencies, police departments, NGOs, a wide range of non-profits as well as corporations such as DuPont and Subaru. In 2004-5 Jenny worked with Peace Talks Radio on a Public Radio documentary about nuclear war and Japan’s atomic bomb experience.
Jenny has lived in Germany and Japan, and speaks Japanese, basic German and French. She earned her Anthropology PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a master in International Administration from the School for International Training. She enjoys any creative project that requires thinking and design, and has significant training design, writing, editing and website experience. She is a practitioner of the Japanese art of paper cutting.