LLM, BA, BEd
MCIPD
Accredited Court Mediator, Caribbean Court of Justice |
Employment
Workplace |
Julia is an excellent communicator and is known to quickly establish good rapport with mediation parties. She has calm, focused professional approach to her mediations and utilises her extensive knowledge and understanding of conflict resolution and mediation skills in working with parties to achieve a meaningful and successful outcome to their dispute. |
Julia works as an Employment Adviser to a specialist firm of solicitors, and has managed her own human resource and employment business for the past five years.
Julia has extensive experience of, grievance investigations, advising employers on internal organisational processes and diversity management and human resource management systems. She draws extensively on her legal knowledge and her experience as a former senior manager in the public sector.
Julia Smith has mediated faith based mediations and is trained in schools mediation and restorative justice. She has also been a volunteer community mediator for several years.
Julia has developed and facilitated training in mediation skills. She is actively engaged in a number of communities, voluntary and faith based projects. She is a Governor at a City Technology College in Hertfordshire, chairs an organisation working to address and provide support for people who have experienced abuse in church communities, and is a co director and Chair of the Dispute Resolution for Faith and Communities.
Julia recently wrote a chapter on dispute resolution in faith communities in a book to be published in autumn 2009.
“Julia’s easy communication and rapport with parties makes her easy to relate to and trust”.
“I have found her style very professional and easy in exploring difficult issues with parties, whilst maintaining a neutral position and encouraging the parties to consider alternative perspectives”.
“Julia maintains a confident and objective approach during the mediation”.