Bob Bordone
Robert C. Bordone (Bob) is an internationally recognized expert, bestselling author, speaker, and teacher in negotiation, conflict resolution, mediation, and facilitation, selected in 2025 as one of the Top 30 Negotiation Professionals in the world by Global Gurus. Currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School and the Founder and Principal of The Cambridge Negotiation Institute, he served on the full-time faculty at Harvard Law School for more than twenty years as the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law, Director, and Founder of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program before launching his consulting practice. He teaches as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and he has been a Visiting Professor of Clinical Practice at the Boston University School of Theology.
As a professional facilitator and conflict resolution consultant, Bob works with individual, non-profit, governmental, and corporate clients across many sectors. He specializes in assisting individuals and groups seeking to manage conflicts in highly sensitive, emotional, or difficult situations. He has also trained professionals from virtually every governmental, corporate, educational, and non-profit sector in skills of negotiation, conflict resolution, and handling challenging conversations.
His clients include major law firms such as Clifford Chance, LLP, Shearman & Sterling, LLP, & Weil, Gotshal LLP; corporations such as Microsoft, Delta Airlines, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Heineken, Google, The Gap, Shell Oil, Fidelity Investments, YouTube, Exelon, Edwards Lifesciences, Novo Nordisk, and Eisai; governmental bodies such as the U.S. Department of Justice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Swiss Foreign Ministry, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and the International Criminal Court; and non-profits such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Massachusetts General Brigham (MGB), the United Way, Everytown for Gun Safety, the American Friends Service Committee, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Beth-Israel Lahey Health.
Bob is the co-author of three books: the USA Today Bestseller Conflict Resilience: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or Giving In (HarperCollins, 2025), Designing Systems and Processes for Managing Disputes, 2d. Edition (Wolters-Kluwer, 2019), and The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005). He has also published articles in leading business and dispute resolution journals, including the Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Journal of Dispute Resolution, Dispute Resolution Magazine, and Negotiation Journal. Bob’s writing and commentary have appeared in various print and broadcast media outlets, including NBC News, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times.
Bob currently serves on the Board of Directors for Seeds of Peace, on the Advisory Board for the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, on the Pastoral Council of The Paulist Center in Boston, on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Empathy in International Affairs, as Senior Advisor to the National Institute for Civil Discourse, and on the LGBTQ+ Commission for the City of Cambridge, MA.
You can follow him on X with the handle @bobbordone, on his YouTube channel, or on his website: BobBordone.com.
