Ann W. Martin

Ann Martin has been associated with Cornell’s Programs for Employment and Workplace Systems (PEWS) since 1986. She has performed organizational needs assessments and consulted on collaborative change, including joint labor-management work in industry, the public schools, and higher education. From January 2000 to January 2003, she held the role of Associate Dean and Director of Extension for Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, during which she worked actively to position the division for major change.

Ann conducts workshops and provides technical assistance on joint decision making, strategic planning, team processes, resistance to change, and conflict management. She has managed large search conferences in which diverse stakeholders work out collaborative plans for the future and co-directed a labor-management initiative to design an internal mediation process for the 15,000 employees of the Unified Court System of New York State. A former teacher and board of education member, Ann’s recent work has taken her back into the schools where she works with staffs, teachers, administrators, and parents on decision making and planning to meet the challenge posed by the standards movement. In addition, she teaches and facilitates the use of interest-based bargaining in industry and in school districts, always working with union and management together.

Ann is a community mediator and trainer with the Community Dispute Resolution Center in Ithaca and an Associate with the School of Industrial and Labor Relations Institute on Conflict Resolution. Throughout her career with Cornell, she has been called on for dispute resolution in client organizations as well as in the community. She is an experienced facilitator in multi-party as well as individual negotiations.

Ann holds degrees from Middlebury College, the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and Teachers College, Columbia University.