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 and 2026 as one of the Top 30 Negotiation Professionals in the world by Global Gurus.
Bob has been teaching in various capacities at Harvard University for thirty years. He served as the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School for more than two decades and was the Director and Founder of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program and served as a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School.
In 2019, Bob founded the Cambridge Negotiation Institute, a full-time consulting, advisory, speaking, and training practice. In addition, he currently serves as the Director of the Consensus Building Institute Professional Development Academy and as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Bob has also been a Visiting Clinical Professor of Conflict Transformation at Boston University’s School of Theology.
Most recently, Bob was selected to be a Fellow at Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life for the 2026-27 academic year.
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 co-author of the USA Today Bestseller Conflict Resilience: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or Giving In (HarperCollins, 2025) with Joel Salinas, MD, and is the co-author of two additional books: 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 Harvard Negotiation Law Review, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, the Journal of Dispute Resolution, Negotiation Briefings, Dispute Resolution Magazine, and Negotiation Journal. Bob’s writing and commentary have appeared in various print and broadcast media outlets, including ABC News, NBC News, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, America, The Chicago Tribune, CNN’s Situation Room, and BBC Radio.
Bob currently serves on a variety of Advisory Boards. Currently, he is on the Board of Directors for Seeds of Peace, the Board of Directors for Communities for Restorative Justice (C4RJ), on the Board of Advisors for the William Jewett Tucker Center at Dartmouth College, on the Advisory Board for The Communion Project of the Paulist Fathers, the Advisory Board of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, and on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Empathy in International Affairs. He is also an appointed member of Cambridge, Massachusetts LGBTQ+ Commission.
His previous board work includes service on the Board of the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School, the Dartmouth College Center for Social Impact, and the Harvard Law School Mediation Program.
Bob earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and his A.B., summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College where he majored in Government. You can follow him on X with the handle @bobbordone, on his website at www.bobbordone.com, or by subscribing to his YouTube channel.
