
Nadja Alexander
Australian Author, Educator & Mediator
About Nadja
Nadja Alexander is a multi-award winning trainer and author. She is a professional mediator and an independent adviser to governments and stakeholders on dispute resolution policy and law.
Described as a practical thinker and a thinking practitioner, Nadja is known for the passion, energy and creativity she brings to her various roles.
Key Professional Focus
Communication Culture & Conflict
Mediator / Coach / Facilitator / Systems Designer
Nadja’s mediation practice comprises executive, workplace, commercial, intergovernmental, and cross-cultural conflict situations. She is consistently named as a top mediator in the International Who’s Who Legal of Mediation.
Nadja’s mediation approach is tailored to both the disputants and the nature of the dispute. Comfortable with facilitating two-party and multi-party disputes with large numbers of people, she employs a variety of interventions, depending on context. Nadja has mediated disputes in Australia, the Pacific, Asia and Europe.
In addition to mediation, Nadja offers:
- facilitation for large groups,
- conflict management systems design for industry groups and organisations,
- conflict coaching for individuals and teams.
Speaker / Trainer
Nadja is a sought-after keynote speaker for international conferences and events. Catch her in Vienna and in Sydney in 2025.
An award-winning educator, Nadja conducts training across topics including communication, culture, presentations, negotiation, mediation, and leadership.
The Mediation Meta Model, developed by Nadja, forms a cornerstone of her mediation training.
Nadja has designed and conducted approved mediator accreditation training in Australia, the Pacific, Asia and Europe. Her mediation advocacy programs are certified by the International Mediation Institute.
Her courses are offered in face-to-face, online and blended formats.
Dispute Resolution Policy / Law Adviser
Nadja offers dispute resolution policy and law advising for governments, courts, financial authorities, international development organisations, civil society groups and other entities.
Nadja has pioneered a systemised approach to analysing and designing mediation laws and the policies. For designing dispute resolution legal and institutional framework, she created her highly successful eco-system model.
She is regularly engaged in the context of legal and institutional reform, mediator professionalisation initiatives and mediator training and education.
She works as a consultant with the World Bank Group, International Development Organisation, the Asian Development Bank Institute and other entities. Nadja is a a member of the Lead Academic Group for the APEC ODR Collaborative Framework.
Multi-Award Winning Author
Nadja is a multi-award winning writer. She has published 30 books and 200 papers on conflict management topics and her work has been translated into Chinese, Arabic, German, French, Russian and Dutch. Nadja is editor of the international book series, Global Trends in Dispute Resolution and co-editor of the Kluwer Mediation Blog.
Her books include Mediation Skills and Techniques, Negotiation: Strategy Style Skill, and the seminal award-winning work, International and Comparative Mediation .
Resources
Nadja Alexander and Lela Love – Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age
Cooking up a Compromise: A short film about mediation
Nadja Alexander speaks on the Singapore Convention
Nadja Alexander speaks on the Singapore Convention at Pathways to Peace: Evolving Trends in Dispute Resolution , Fifth Triennial Conference of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Caribbean Branch)
Through the Looking Glass: Why the Mediation Ecosystem Matters
Through the Looking Glass: Why the Mediation Ecosystem Matters, presented at the International Scientific Conference, Overcoming the Mediation Paradox: Ideas, Challenges, Good Practice, Vilnius, Lithuania
10 Steps in Mediation
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