Harold Coleman, Jr., is an award-winning dispute resolution practitioner, educator, and peace-building champion. He is an attorney, arbitrator, mediator, conciliator, facilitator, teacher, trainer, speaker, writer and conflict coach with more than 35 years of multifaceted experience and expertise in the dispute resolution industry.
Harold is principal of Harold Coleman Jr. LTD (2004 to date), a San Diego-based conflict management firm that delivers solution-focused and value-driven professional alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services in the areas of real estate, construction, commercial, consumer, business and employment law, with a practice focus in complex technical disputes and pre-dispute avoidance. As an ADR professional, he previously served as senior executive for mediation and practitioner development at the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-CDR), a global leader in dispute resolution services.
Harold is an ADR panelist with the Superior Court of California’s Civil Mediation Program, the San Diego Association of Realtors’; Real Estate Mediation Center, the San Diego County Bar Association’s attorney/client fee arbitration and mediation committees, and the AAA’s Large & Complex Case (LCC) panel for commercial and construction disputes. He is a licensed attorney, licensed real estate broker, and credentialed mediator, arbitrator, conciliator and educator who since 1987 has served the international business and legal communities in resolving complex litigated and non-litigated disputes through innovative ADR applications of interest-based negotiation, facilitation, mediation, independent fact-finding, early neutral evaluation, and contractual arbitration.