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Optimizing Mediation: Change Positions – Change Perspectives

Table of Contents Next Change Positions – Change Perspectives Another opportunity that soccer gave me was the ability to literally “change my position” and, as a result, “change my perspective.” I tend to think of playing halfback, in fact center-half, as my “natural position.”  This was my position in high school.  Needless to say, there…

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Jim Melamed

Jim Melamed co-founded Mediate.com in 1996 along with John Helie and served as CEO of Mediate.com through June 2020 (25 years).  Jim is currently General Counsel for Mediate.com and ODR.com. During Jim's 25-year tenure, Mediate.com received the American Bar Association's 2010 Institutional Problem Solver Award.  Before Mediate.com, Jim founded The… MORE

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