About Loretta Kuliawat

 

Conducting Conflict Constructively

1^st Resort Mediation

ABOUT Loretta Kuliawat, phD

Dr. Kuliawat has been feeding her passion for conflict resolution since 1993. 

 

Her credentials include experience with business, the government, and non-profit sectors, enhanced by academic training.  She is adept at collaborating with all levels of staff and management and has experience with projects involving multiple stakeholders and interdisciplinary or cross-functional teams with a particular expertise in diversity issues.

 

In her business life, she has worked in the heavy and highway construction industry, for military contractors, an economic development association, and a safety consulting company serving major industries such as oil and gas.  As a manager, Dr. Kuliawat has had direct responsibility for employee development and evaluation, strategic planning, managing changes in workforce culture and workflow as company size doubled, project management, and interfacing with clients and vendors. 

 

As a consultant, she has facilitated business plan development for a successful, start-up, software systems design company, strategic planning meetings for professional associations, and advised steering committee members of a southern California economic development association on strategies to open pathways of communication and foster relationship building to coordinate resources and boost a flagging local economy.

 

She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Social Science from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.  Her graduate study in sociology, social psychology, political science, and anthropology is indicative of her ability to successfully cross boundaries and integrate diverse perspectives around a common issue.

 

Dr. Kuliawat has completed mediation and negotiation training with the Ventura Center for Dispute Resolution and Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and Interface Children Family Services.  While pursuing her degree at Syracuse University, she also earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Conflict Resolution from the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC).

 

Dr. Kuliawat has mediated court referred cases between businesses, landlord-tenant and interpersonal disputes, Victim/Offender Reconciliation (VORP) cases and parent/teen conflicts.  In 1995, she served as a facilitator for the Day of Dialogue on Race Relations sponsored by City of Los Angeles in conjunction with Study Circles Resource Center. 

 

She has trained and mentored other mediators and has also shared her skills and experience by presenting to peers at the Southern California Mediation Association conference, to graduate students studying conflicts generated by environmental issues, and as an instructor for Topics in Conflict, a graduate course requirement for students pursuing the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Conflict Resolution Program.  In addition, Dr. Kuliawat was invited by the Syracuse  University Community Mediation Center to develop and deliver a mediation skills training for administrators and students.