Clare Fowler
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Drawing from your amazing work, you did a truly fabulous job in providing a most informative and stimulating session on understanding the complexity of how and why people respond to conflict the way they do! Your presentation helped everyone to better understand the art and science of neuroplasticity. As was evident from all of the feedback we received during and after the session, everyone truly appreciated hearing your thoughts and you gained a huge following of new admirers!” ~ Maria Volpe, Director of NYC listserv, following a discussion of the book on April 6, 2024.
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Rising Above Office Conflict
Rising Above Office Conflict is a guide book for every worker, describing 20 common behaviors that we work with, so that we know how to work together more efficiently.
Listen/view a podcast on the book takeaways here.
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About Dr. Clare Fowler
ADR Practitioner, Teacher, Writer, and Speaker
Dr. Clare Fowler is the Executive Vice-President of Mediate.com. She received her Doctorate on designing dispute resolution systems for small businesses from Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education/Organizational Leadership and her Master’s of Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law.
Watch a sample of Clare’s training and speaking here.
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In her engaging book Rising Above Conflict Clare gifts readers with a practical, interesting, and supportive resource to effectively find our way through workplace conflict. I particularly appreciate the rigour that went into Clare’s research and that it extended well beyond theory by for instance, providing copious real-life examples of common relatable disputes for which she suggests constructive ways to get through them. And it is a fun read that makes the serious palatable. I smiled lots!

Cinnie Noble
Conflict Coach, CEO of CINERGY Coaching
Large conflicts draw the most attention, but it is the ongoing, small conflicts in our day, often in the workplace, that can have the deepest effect on our mental health and well-being. Clare E. Fowler’s new book, Rising Above Office Conflict, is the antidote we all need as she provides simple yet effective insights for managing the conflict in your life. This is the book that will help not only managers, HR professionals, and employees, but truly anyone and everyone to better cope with conflict and to live a happier, healthier life.

Susan Guthrie, esq.
attorney, mediator, speaker, trainer, and host of The Divorce & Beyond podcast
I highly recommend this delightful book, so filled with practical wisdom for anybody who seeks an in-depth understanding of their coworkers’ difficult behaviors, along with effective tools for trying to continue working with them or deciding to move on to a better work environment.

Dr. Don Saposnek
PhD, clinical psychologist, family mediator, author of Mediating Child Custody Disputes, and coauthor of Splitting America
Well researched and thoughtfully structured with ‘sticky’ and repeated thematic tools, this is no fluff piece. It’s versatile, offering depth and breadth—something for everyone, from the novice to the so-called expert. Read to the end; you’ll be rewarded with a yummy bonus!

Lucia Kanter St. Amour, esq.
Attorney, mediator, author, and VP of board, UN Women, San Francisco
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