Meet the partners of ADR Education, Gordon, Jamie, Sylvie, Andrew and Jessica.
ADR Education is a partnership of five dispute resolution
companies and their principals Gordon
Sloan, Jamie Chicanot, Andrew Fulton, Sylvie
Matteau and Jessica McNamara.
Our firm is closely associated with dispute resolution leaders
from across the country. We work with trainers and mediators
from every corner of the country, from many cultures, and
in both official languages.
As practitioners, we are deeply committed to providing exceptional
service in all dispute resolution activities. We are grounded
in the conviction that parties engaged in conflict can tackle
their differences with the assistance of process tools. They
can create ways to resolve disagreement that keeps the power
of decision-making firmly in their own hands.
As trainers and educators, we are insistent that each of
our "training products" is of extremely high quality
and is rigorously grounded in well-respected adult learning
principles. Our experience is that outstanding training makes
a critical difference to learners and is directly related
to their ability to perform.
By choosing to work with ADR Education, you will partner
with leaders in this field who are:
Highly professional and deeply inspired by what they do
Engaging and extremely experienced
Friendly and accessible
Reliable and thoroughly committed to the clients we assist
Gordon Sloan
Gordon
Sloan is well-known as one of Canada's most experienced dispute
resolution trainers and teachers. He works in every province
and territory delivering tailored programs to a wide array
of audiences. These include training programs and academic
teaching with Federal and Provincial governments, private
sector organizations, courts, professional bodies, non-governmental
organizations, First Nations, universities and ad hoc groups.
He is well known for a varied and busy intervention practice.
He mediates and facilitates cases of all sorts. Many are larger
complex cases. Gordon's interests in dispute resolution are
panoramic, ranging from work with individuals to large social
units and multiple party disputes. He is fascinated by the
role of intense values and group identity in conflict resolution.
He maintains an ongoing and regular teaching role in several
academic programs at the post-graduate level. Professionally,
Gordon is a lawyer with an academic background in Law and
Religious Studies.
Jamie Chicanot
Jamie
Chicanot has a Master's degree in Dispute Resolution and holds
the designation of Chartered Mediator. He is an accomplished
ADR practitioner with ten years of experience. Jamie is one
of Canada’s busiest conflict resolution trainers. He designs
dispute resolution learning modules and delivers training
courses across the country. He specializes in helping organizations,
communities and other social units implement conflict resolution
programs and capacity building initiatives. He provides conflict
analysis and process design services to a variety of clients.
Jamie has a background working with First Nations delivering
training, advising, mediating inter and intra Band conflict,
and facilitating community meetings. Jamie’s mediation and
other intervention work are broad in scope. He has extensive
dispute resolution experience in diverse contexts such as
government, environmental, commercial, municipal affairs,
child protection, organizational and family. His intervention
expertise includes conflict resolution system design, workplace
assessments & group interventions, coaching, facilitation
and mediation.
Andrew Fulton
Andrew
Fulton has had a diverse and productive practice in dispute
resolution since 1994 and is recognized in the field through
the designation of "Chartered Mediator". As an accomplished
instructor and trainer, Andrew has provided services federally,
provincially, municipally and in the private sector that not
only relate to dispute resolution principles, process and
skills but also assist organizations to successfully carry
out the implementation of dispute resolution system design.
Similarly, Andrew has an interest in the design, coordination
and facilitation of consultations and workshops for strategic
planning, collaboration, education and information gathering.
As a mediator, Andrew’s experience is broad involving all
levels of government, health professions, civil disputes,
First Nations, land-use, business and corporations, workplace,
tourism, family and environmental issues. Mr. Fulton is comfortable
working in many settings and situations with particular emphasis
on large bi-lateral and multi-party disputes within and between
municipalities in Alberta and British Columbia. He has a Masters
Degree in Planning from the University of British Columbia
and currently lives in Alberta with his family.
Sylvie Matteau
Sylvie’s
longstanding interest in Alternative Dispute Resolution ignited
with The Institute for International Peace and Security in
1984. Later, she established one of the Canada’s first professional
mediation services. Her highly structured, passionate approach
to ADR has become well known. Workshop participants welcome
her enthusiasm for passing on the skills and attitude of a
respected conflict resolution practitioner, as well as the
technical aspects of the process. Sylvie has been Vice-Chairperson
of the Public Service Labour Relations Board, responsible
for the Board’s mediation and collective bargaining sector.
She is busy internationally particularly in Cambodia and Chile.
Sylvie’s mature & well trained ability to build and enhance
relationships in otherwise difficult situations underpins
her commitment to facilitation and mediation in the workplace.
Versed in coaching & training team leaders and executives,
developing strategy, designing systems, acting in principled
& assisted negotiation, interest-based consultations,
she brings both loyalty and dedication to her field of expertise.
Sylvie is an attorney with a Master of International Law.
Jessica McNamara
Jessica
McNamara has a Master’s degree in Dispute Resolution and is a professional
facilitator, mediator, trainer and coach based in Victoria, British Columbia.
Jessica specializes in facilitating, training and coaching large teams of
multidisciplinary professionals in dispute resolution, conflict analysis,
conflict management and interest based negotiation across the country.
Jessica is able to work closely with key stakeholders, motivating a
team to work collectively to identify their organization’s challenges and
determine effective solutions.
Jessica has worked extensively within the
school system and various community organizations in the areas of coaching,
facilitation, mediation, system & process design, and workplace group
interventions & assessments. Inspired by the capacity people demonstrate
to solve their own problems, Jessica is dedicated to assisting those who are
experiencing conflict. She is deeply committed to the ideal of peace and views
the field of dispute resolution as an opportunity to contribute to that ideal
on both a local and a national level.
Gordon
Sloan is well-known as one of Canada's most experienced dispute
resolution trainers and teachers. He works in every province
and territory delivering tailored programs to a wide array
of audiences. These include training programs and academic
teaching with Federal and Provincial governments, private
sector organizations, courts, professional bodies, non-governmental
organizations, First Nations, universities and ad hoc groups.
Jamie
Chicanot has a Master's degree in Dispute Resolution and holds
the designation of Chartered Mediator. He is an accomplished
ADR practitioner with ten years of experience. Jamie is one
of Canada’s busiest conflict resolution trainers. He designs
dispute resolution learning modules and delivers training
courses across the country. He specializes in helping organizations,
communities and other social units implement conflict resolution
programs and capacity building initiatives. He provides conflict
analysis and process design services to a variety of clients.
Jamie has a background working with First Nations delivering
training, advising, mediating inter and intra Band conflict,
and facilitating community meetings. Jamie’s mediation and
other intervention work are broad in scope. He has extensive
dispute resolution experience in diverse contexts such as
government, environmental, commercial, municipal affairs,
child protection, organizational and family. His intervention
expertise includes conflict resolution system design, workplace
assessments & group interventions, coaching, facilitation
and mediation. 
Andrew
Fulton has had a diverse and productive practice in dispute
resolution since 1994 and is recognized in the field through
the designation of "Chartered Mediator". As an accomplished
instructor and trainer, Andrew has provided services federally,
provincially, municipally and in the private sector that not
only relate to dispute resolution principles, process and
skills but also assist organizations to successfully carry
out the implementation of dispute resolution system design.
Similarly, Andrew has an interest in the design, coordination
and facilitation of consultations and workshops for strategic
planning, collaboration, education and information gathering.
As a mediator, Andrew’s experience is broad involving all
levels of government, health professions, civil disputes,
First Nations, land-use, business and corporations, workplace,
tourism, family and environmental issues. Mr. Fulton is comfortable
working in many settings and situations with particular emphasis
on large bi-lateral and multi-party disputes within and between
municipalities in Alberta and British Columbia. He has a Masters
Degree in Planning from the University of British Columbia
and currently lives in Alberta with his family.
Sylvie’s
longstanding interest in Alternative Dispute Resolution ignited
with The Institute for International Peace and Security in
1984. Later, she established one of the Canada’s first professional
mediation services. Her highly structured, passionate approach
to ADR has become well known. Workshop participants welcome
her enthusiasm for passing on the skills and attitude of a
respected conflict resolution practitioner, as well as the
technical aspects of the process. Sylvie has been Vice-Chairperson
of the Public Service Labour Relations Board, responsible
for the Board’s mediation and collective bargaining sector.
She is busy internationally particularly in Cambodia and Chile.
Jessica
McNamara has a Master’s degree in Dispute Resolution and is a professional
facilitator, mediator, trainer and coach based in Victoria, British Columbia.
Jessica specializes in facilitating, training and coaching large teams of
multidisciplinary professionals in dispute resolution, conflict analysis,
conflict management and interest based negotiation across the country.
Jessica is able to work closely with key stakeholders, motivating a
team to work collectively to identify their organization’s challenges and
determine effective solutions.