The people that help you get to resolution

Nina Harding has worked as a full-time mediator and facilitator for over twenty years and mediated over two thousand disputes.

David specialises in conflict management and constructive communication, and facilitates high performance outcomes for workgroups and executive teams. He is currently an associate at La Trobe University School of Law, and has previously taught and published with multiple universities in history, politics and law.

David co-founded Transformative Justice Australia, and is President of the Victorian Association for Restorative justice. David’s past work has inspired David Williamson’s Jack Manning Trilogy of plays, and Michael Rymer’s award–winning film Face to Face.

Having conducted more than 8,000 mediations, Tim McFarlane is highly respected within the Australian legal profession for his commercially focused, practical and balanced approach to conflict resolution. Tim’s extensive and varied expertise has been developed over 37 years whilst employed at, and as a partner in, a number of law firms. Tim has been an Accredited Specialist in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) since 1993.

Delwyn Everard is a lawyer and arts advocate. She has worked with artists and arts organisations for the last 15 years and was the deputy director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia for 10 years. She has worked extensively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities and their community art centres and on many significant cross platform art projects and public art commissions. She is on the board of the Art Month Sydney Festival.

Lynora Brooke has extensive experience working with chief executive, senior leaders and middle management in the public and private sectors in Australia and overseas.

With over 35 years in business management and consulting, Lynora has strong diverse experience across a broad range of organisations in a number of countries.

Specialties: Business management; artist relations; marketing; talent acquisition; personnel management; event management and promotion.

Michael McMartin has over 40 years experience in the Australian and International Creative Industries dealing with Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Patents, Copyright and Licensing across a wide range of sectors including Music, Film, Photography, Graphic Art, Design and Merchandising.

Steve Lancken is one of Australia’s leading mediators and ADR professionals. He is on a number of pre-eminent dispute panels and from 2008 to 2013 Steve served on the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (NADRAC) appointed by the Attorney General of Australia, the Honourable Robert McClelland MP. He uses his experience for training in mediation, negotiation, communication and conflict management.

Angela is an accredited mediator under the National Standards and a BarADR approved expert determiner and arbitrator. She is a member of the mediation panels of IP Australia, the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Supreme Court of NSW, District Court of NSW, Resolution Institute, the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, the dispute resolution panel for APRA AMCOS and the expert panel for Screenrights.

Shirli Kirschner is the principal of Resolve Advisors founded in 1996 to provide dispute resolution services nationally and internationally. Shirli is an accredited mediator and a member of advanced panels of mediators in Australia. She is a visiting fellow at the Law School of UNSW and a sessional Registrar of the Federal Circuits Court. Shirli holds the position of wholesale energy market dispute resolution Adviser and was a member of NADRAC, an advisory committee to the Federal Attorney General on dispute resolution.

As member of the Resolution Facilitator’s team, Sarah provides executive administrative services in support of Resolution Pathways.

Sarah has been a part of Resolution Pathways since its inception. Prior to commencing her current role in early 2018, Sarah worked in the retail sector and was a member of the Resolution Pathways Stakeholder Group as a representative of small business music users.

Sarah has a background in intellectual property law, with a particular focus on copyright litigation. With a combination of experience, both in legal and business fields, Sarah has a broad range of knowledge in reviewing legal matters, business operation and administration.