Constantin Olbrisch is a lawyer and full time mediator (since 2002); he negotiates, mediates and facilitates in all kinds of conflicts but has a special focus on conflicts between unions, works councils and employers. He headed a research project at Center for social partnership at former Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Berlin, where he facilitated a "Round Table on Social Dialogue" with representatives of more than 50 large national and international corporations on employment-relation-matters and conflict-management (since 2010); As trainer, he designs comprehensive negotiation and mediation curricula (90 hours+) and trainings; the later are conceptualized according to the needs of different professions and address judges, business-lawyers, consultants, accountants and managers; He is an Associated lecturer at St. Gallen University, Switzerland, the Hertie School, Berlin, the yearly joint Summer School on Negotiation and Mediation of Humboldt-University (Berlin) and Tulane Law School (New Orleans) and at Rostock University and various other institutions, teaching conflict management, mediation negotiation and leadership; He is Author (together with Prof. Dr. Nadja Alexander and Juliane Ade) of the textbook “Mediation, Schlichtung, Verhandlungsmanagement” (Alpmann und Schmidt 2005; this is a standard German textbook series for law students), Author (together with Lars Krichhoff) of “Tools and Techniques in Business Mediations”, in: Bühring-Uhle / Kirchhoff / Scherer, “Mediation and Arbitration in international Business” (Kluwer Law 2006); Author of the textbook "Betriebliche Mitbestimmung - Konstruktive Zusammenarbeit von Arbeitgeber und Betriebsrat", (Rieder Verlag 2013 and 2015) and various Papers on Conflict-Management and Mediation.
