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Helping You Manage Conflict
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Our Team Combining Experienced Natural Resource and Dispute Resolution Professionals to Meet Your Specific Needs
The Cooperation Company is a team of
highly experienced professionals who bring two vital skills to your issue. We are natural resource executives
with wide experience doing the kind of work you do and we are mediators with wide experience doing dispute
resolution work. From this pool of professionals we staff your job with the experience needed to create
a practical, down to earth approach that responds to the realities in your specific work environment. In
short, we know your line of work and we know how to get people to work together.
Owner of The Cooperation Company Michael Fraidenburg is a seasoned natural resource manager who worked for 30 years with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife as a scientific expert, agency executive, and the Executive for the Fish and Wildlife Commission. Fraidenburg is widely experienced in conflict resolution, facilitation, agency governance, teaching, policy making, international negotiations, planning, research, and program administration. He has a successful tack record in controversial, international and interstate work environments and has received state and national recognition for his work in international disputes over salmon. He has extensive experience facilitating science-intensive disagreements and, as a certified mediator, using interest-based bargaining techniques to resolve disputes over natural resources. He is able to motivate and work effectively with people in supervisory, team, and peer relationships and is expert at helping organizations and stakeholders work together. Michael helps groups get past disagreement and impasse and, in so doing, helps organizations save time, save money, and improve their reputations. As the owner of The Cooperation Company Mike is committed to having our organization help you manage conflict so it does not manage you.
Senior Mediator Joel Greene is a broadly experienced mediator, adjudicator, and dispute resolution professional who studied at the Harvard Project on Negotiation. Joel attended the University of Puget Sound School of Law, where he graduated at the top of his class and served two years on the law review. Joel went on to receive a Master in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. During his career in Washington State Government, Joel has been an executive in the Department of Natural Resources (managing forest protection issues and state-owned aquatic lands), Deputy Director in the Office of Marine Safety (creating a new state agency and developing policy for the prevention of oil spills from large vessels in Puget Sound); serving as legal counsel for the Department of Revenue (as lead attorney on multimillion dollar tax lawsuits brought by Washington’s largest corporations), as a Labor Relations Mediator/Adjudicator (handling cases that set legal precedent and attract media interest), and he has been President of the Board of Directors for the Dispute Resolution Center of Thurston County, WA. As a mediator, he is known for his patience, communication skills, and ability to work with parties who have reached seemingly intractable impasses. As an adjudicator, he has conducted numerous hearings and written decisions about unfair labor practices, religious non-association, and representation in union bargaining units. Joel has the skills to effectively work with people in conflict because, as one client put it, “Joel kept us all on track and was extremely easy to work with. He was creative, non-judgmental, and patient.” Joel uses these skills to help organizations save time, money, and their reputations while they co-create a shared future.
Senior Resource Manager Judy Stokes Weber is an experienced agency executive specializing in communications. She worked for 10 years with the New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation and 20 years with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department as a public involvement expert and agency spokesperson and the public affairs administrator. Stokes is widely experienced managing crisis communications, agency communication and education programming, teaching leadership, public involvement for policy making, change management, strategic planning, relationship building through communication, and research. Judy has earned accreditation from the Public Relations Society of America—a mark of distinction for public relations professionals who are selected based on their broad knowledge, strategic perspective, and sound professional judgment and for demonstrating commitment to the Society’s ideals of professionalism and ethical practice. She has a successful track record in controversial local and national issues laying the communications groundwork for successful conservation programs. Her skill has been recognized regionally when she received the New England Conservation Information and Education Association Communicator of the Year designation and the Russell B. Tobey Career Service Award, among others. She has received regional and national recognition for her work in building outreach and education programs for controversial furbearer management, federal aid outreach, and conservation education. She has experience as a consultant to conservation-related organizations and teaches in a national leadership program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Judy’s approach to resource management involves a focus on building and maintaining relationships through communication and meeting management to prevent conflict and when necessary resolve conflicts among user groups and between agency and stakeholders. She has practical experience designing public involvement efforts and facilitating stakeholder-government communication. She inspires and leads people in supervisory, team, and collegial relationships and is expert at helping organizations and stakeholders work together. Partnering with non-profits, other agencies, and corporations marks her work practice where Judy acts as a knowledgeable but neutral party who provides the environment where agencies and stakeholders can build mutual understanding and agreement about management targets and policy, build trust, and build the credibility of agency employees and programs.
Senior Mediator
Marijke van Roojen has dedicated her professional life to two broad disciplines:
community-based mediation, restorative justice and the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution, and perinatal
health care, health access advocacy and midwifery education, world-wide.
Senior Resource Manager Dr. Mamie Parker is the President of MA Parker and Associates, a management consulting and public speaking business. An outstanding motivational speaker and renowned environmentalist, she recently retired after a very successful career at the U. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service). She is the first African American to serve as a Service’s Regional Director and the head of the nation’s fisheries program. Armed with a B. S. , M. S. and PhD degrees, Dr. Parker has extensive amount of experience as a fish and wildlife biologist in Genoa ; La Crosse; Madison, and Lake Mills, Wisconsin; Columbia, Missouri; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Atlanta, Georgia; Hadley, MA; and Washington, D.C. She was featured on the Steve Harvey Morning Radio Show and in Dudley Edmundson’s book, Black and Brown Faces in America’s Wild Places. Former Governor Mike Huckabee inducted her into the Arkansas Hall of Fame for her accomplishment as the first Arkansas native to rise to the position of Assistant Director of the Service with a budget of over $250 million and 2400 employees throughout the nation. She has worked and supervised programs such as the national fish hatcheries, national wetlands and coastal mapping, contaminants, invasive species, national wildlife refuges, marine mammals, land acquisition, law enforcement, wetland restoration and protection among others.
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