Negotiation and Communication Skills Core Course

Justin is the co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and lead trainer for Habitus Incorporated.

He is an experienced negotiation trainer, mediator / facilitator and conflict management consultant. His expertise is in collaborative negotiation theory, behavior change, multi-party facilitation, mediation and career coaching. In addition to his work with Habitus, he has served on the training teams at the Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, and the mediation practicum at Tuft’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Justin is a former adjunct professor of negotiation at Yale University and Northeastern’s Business School. He has mediated over 150 cases since training in 2011, including business, interpersonal, contract, housing and divorce cases.

Justin designs and leads innovative and highly dynamic trainings for corporate, educational and non-profit institutions in the US and abroad. More specifically, he has trained individuals at companies such as Eastman Chemical, Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Akamai, Anika Therapeutics Inc., Commonwealth Financial, NeighborWorks, Bavaria Foundation, FINCA, SIGNUM Foundation – College of Notaries, Shanghai TransLegal, IBM Europe, IFC Cantabria, Better Future Project and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Justin is the co-author of the forthcoming book Own the Job Hunt, which focuses on the use of collaborative negotiation skills to realize a meaningful career.

Justin holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale College in Economics, Politics and Ethics. Because of his focus on ethics and resource economics while at Yale, Justin is particularly interested in promoting healthy and sustainable local living economies and the responsible use of natural resources. Most recently, he has been working to facilitate conversations within various communities about how to respond to climate change. He is fluent in Spanish.