CHUCK DORAN | Negotiation Instructor
MWI Negotiation Training Programs
Four Faneuil Hall - Fourth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02109-1632
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“Chuck is very engaging and brings a lot of enthusiasm, which is always important in a training session. Good speaker and ability to listen to questions and respond with good answers. Chuck relates to people well. He used good examples of real life-negotiation situations.”

- Negotiation Training Participant
Dispute Resolution Experience

Charles "Chuck" Doran is a negotiation instructor and consultant with MWI in Boston. Since 1994, Chuck has worked nationally and internationally with top sales, procurement, and delivery professionals to diagnose and resolve negotiation challenges across multiple industries including financial/consulting, healthcare, and high tech. Chuck has served as a teaching assistant to Professor Roger Fisher at PON’s Program of Instruction for Lawyers Negotiation Workshop on multiple occasions. In 2007, Chuck led the design and delivery of a world-wide role out for Analog Devices with workshops in Tokyo, Munich, Paris, Boston, San Jose, Shanghai and Taipei. In addition to his work as a negotiation trainer and consultant, Chuck has mediated thousands of business, commercial, employment and workplace cases since 1992. Chuck serves as a mediator with the CPR Dispute Resolution Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), and the USPS REDRESS I and REDRESS II Mediation Panels. Chuck completed a Specialization in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School and served as a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution as Chair of the Qualifications Subcommittee. Chuck is a past president of the Association for Conflict Resolution, New England Chapter.


Representative Matters
  • Financial/Consulting - Boston Financial Data Services, Capital One, Carlyle Group, Comerica Bank, and Deloitte;

  • Healthcare - Advance PCS, Arcadia Solutions, Delta Dental, Genentech, MedImmune, Merck & Co, and Sanofi-Aventis;

  • High Tech - Arrow Electronics, Analog Devices, BMC Software, Cisco, Compaq, CSC, Eastman Chemical, IBM, Lexmark, Osram Sylvania, TRW, and Xilinx.

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
  • Appointed to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution and was Chair of the Qualifications Subcommittee (1999-2003);

  • President and Director of the Association for Conflict Resolution, New England Chapter (NE-ACR) (formerly the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution - SPIDR). Elected to serve as President and former President-Elect and Director of the six state regional chapter of ACR International (1997-2004);

  • Chair, Massachusetts Budget Coalition. Led statewide collaborative effort with 15 mediation providers across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to secure over $950,000 in legislative funding for court-connected mediation services (1997-2000).

  • Arbitrator with the Massachusetts Bar Association's Fee Arbitration Board (1996 to present);

Lectures and ADR Trainings Conducted
  • Mediation Trainer. Designed and served as lead trainer for over seventy-five 20 to 40 hour basic and advanced training programs, totaling over 2250 hours since 1994. Mediation training clients include Coca-Cola, Bose Corporation, MWI, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and the Harvard Mediation Program at Harvard Law School.

  • Negotiation Instructor and Presenter. Chuck has worked nationally and internationally with top sales, procurement, and delivery professionals to diagnose and resolve negotiation challenges across multiple industries including financial/consulting, healthcare, and high tech. Served as a negotiation instructor for the internationally attended “Program of Instruction for Lawyers” Negotiation Workshop at Harvard Law School as a teaching assistant to Professor Roger Fisher on multiple occasions.

Background and Education
  • Graduate: Completed two-year Specialization in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, at the Program On Negotiation, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (1993)

  • Undergraduate: B.A., Philosophy, Binghamton University, SUNY, Binghamton, NY; President Philosophy Club / Tenure Committee (1989)
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