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Stevenson Carlebach, MFA

Stevenson Carlebach is an independent trainer and consultant in the fields of communication, negotiation, and dispute resolution. He teaches, designs training programs, and facilitates conversations both in the United States and abroad. Prior to his work in this field, for more than a decade he was an Associate Professor of communication at Connecticut College, where he was Chair of the Theater Department and Director of the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy. He was trained in negotiation at the Harvard Negotiation Project and taught for the Program in Law.

Recently Stevenson was Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught negotiation. He has worked in a number of educational settings to help implement conflict resolution curricula. As director of training for the Program for Young Negotiators, he trained hundreds of educators in both Israel and Argentina to develop conflict resolution in the schools there. He worked with The United States Coast Guard Academy ,training cadets to manage communication challenges more effectively. He also worked with the Academy of Jewish Religion, a seminary for Rabbis and Cantors, to help them learn to have more successful conversations.

Stevenson is a senior consultant with a number of training organizations, including Vantage Partners, Triad Consulting, and Insight Partners. In his consulting work, Stevenson has taught principled negotiation and communication skills to thousands of professionals in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He has a broad range of corporate clients in diverse fields including banking, oil, high-tech, pharmaceutical, and retail. A short list of his corporate clients includes: BP, Bayer, Goldman Sachs, PWC, Genentech, MetLife, Merrill Lynch, IBM, LL Bean, The MathWorks, Merck Pharmaceuticals, The Hartford, Citrix, BP Amoco, and Deloitte & Touche.

In recent years, Stevenson has begun to bring his expertise in negotiation and relationship building to couples therapy. Stevenson and his colleague Jeffrey Kerr created “Love Equity,” a program for helping couples rebuild damaged relationships. They have taught several workshops for therapists in the Boston Area, and are currently working on a podcast and a book.

Stevenson’s work in dispute resolution has grown out of a commitment to collaboration, community building, and diversity. He is one of the founders of ISAAC, a charter public middle school in New London, Connecticut that is focused on the arts and effective communication. ISAAC is now in its ninth year and thriving.