Ann L. Begler is the founder and principal of the Begler Group, a Pittsburgh firm providing services in mediation, advanced facilitation, conflict coaching and organizational development. Her work has supported major and lasting shifts within intimate systems such as closely-held businesses and professional practices; healthcare institutions dealing with adverse events and staff conflicts; non-profit board-staff relationships; internal business units; family relationships and a range of municipal entities.
Ms. Begler has dedicated her lengthy career to helping people and organizations strengthen relationships and navigate conflicts. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971 and her law degree from Duquesne University School of Law in 1975. She spent a substantial part of her career as a litigation attorney and managing partner of her law firm. Ms. Begler took her initial training in mediation in 1982 and in the years that followed, she completed numerous trainings in advanced mediation and conflict resolution, completed four years of basic and advanced training in gestalt therapy, and completed internationally recognized certificate programs in both organizational and systems development and group process facilitation and intervention. Her training includes obtaining certification to use the Conflict Dynamics Profile assessment tool, advanced conflict training in the Kilmann Conflict Styles and special training in conflict coaching and elder mediation. Eleven years ago she terminated her work in the traditional practice of law to focus her practice solely on mediation, organizational consulting and conflict coaching.
Ms. Begler an active mediator for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) mediation program, has been a mediator for the US Postal Service’s REDRESS Program and is a mediator for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC’s) Intermediation Program. Ms. Begler is a qualified mediator for the Federal District Court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program in the Western District. She also serves as a mediator for the conflict management program sponsored by the Local Government Academy with a focus on helping municipalities formulate and constructively implement municipal joint planning agreements. Ms. Begler is the the Pennsylvania Superior Court’s Western District mediator and mediates court appeals arising within the civil, family and estate areas of the courts.
