About

Problem solving, reducing risk and seeking ways to turn issues into opportunities.

Since 2012, my work has centred on problem solving, reducing risk and seeking ways to turn issues into opportunities. My background as a solicitor and in investment banking has been invaluable to me in understanding how conflict can create chaos, destroy relationships and limit outcomes.

I realize how few innate skills I had when I entered the workforce. Reflecting now I can see how useful mediation skills and knowledge would have been to me in trying to navigate through my own personal, workplace and business conflicts. My experience at the Straus Institute completing my LLM was transformational and marked the beginning of a journey. Since those early steps, I have completed family mediation training in Hong Kong and Australia, worked as an apprentice with Robyn Hooworth in Hong Kong and continued to develop and deepen my learning and skills.

As an adjunct lecturer in the LLM programme at HKU, I have the opportunity to work with students committed to starting their ADR journey as I teach family mediation and financial dispute resolution. I was also a member of the Organizing Committee for the Children’s Issues Forum (2015-2020) in Hong Kong.

People are capable of taking responsibility for their disputes and working to resolve them in constructive ways.

My professional life is focused on working with people who seek to resolve their disputes in a constructive and respectful way. My mediation practice is based on a belief that all people have resources within themselves to resolve the disputes they face. More than that I believe that people are capable of taking responsibility for their disputes and working to resolve them in constructive ways.

I work primarily as a full time family accredited mediator, general accredited mediator, and conflict management coach.

Qualifications

• Family Accredited Mediator – Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association (HKMAAL)
• General Accredited Mediator – Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and HKMAAL
• Member HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators for Financial Services Disputes
• Australian Mediator and Dispute Resolution Accreditation (AMDRAS)
• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) USA
• Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) UK
• Associate Fellow of International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL)
• Solicitor non-practising (England and Wales / Hong Kong)

Appointments

• The Zubin Foundation Forced Marriage Committee
• Hong Kong Family Law Association Executive Committee
• FT NED Dip – Faculty
• ICC Mediation Competition – Judge & Rules Working Group