Advisory Services

Navigating Rule of Law and Conflict Resolution in High-Stakes Environments

Alongside my Maryland legal practice, I take on a selective number of consulting, training, and advisory engagements for institutions, organizations, and leadership teams navigating complex conflicts and high-stakes situations.

These services are non-legal in nature and do not constitute legal representation or create an attorney-client relationship.

Areas of Advisory Work

Rule of Law & Institutional Integrity (Domestic and International)

Advisory support to strengthen lawful, consistent, and effective systems in complex or high-pressure environments. This may include policy alignment, institutional development, implementation strategy, and approaches that support fairness, accountability, and durable trust.

Conflict Resolution & Stakeholder Alignment

Strategic guidance to help individuals and institutions navigate disagreement, reduce escalation, and move toward workable outcomes. Engagements may include negotiation support, process design, facilitation, and long-term conflict resolution planning.

Decision-Making Under Stress

Training and advisory support focused on strengthening clarity and judgment in high-pressure environments, drawing on experience in conflict settings and neuroscience-informed approaches to stress, decision making, and performance under pressure.

Background

My advisory work builds on more than two decades at the intersection of law, conflict resolution, and institutional reform. I have served in legal and senior advisory roles in U.S. justice contexts as well as in conflict-affected and war-affected settings internationally. I also trained in conflict resolution and in the neurobiology of stress and decision-making.

These experiences shaped my understanding of how stress, uncertainty, and institutional strain affect decision-making, relationships, and systems. My advisory approach is practical, grounded, and designed to be usable in real-world conditions.

Engagement Formats

Engagements may include:

  • Short-term or ongoing advisory support

  • Executive briefings and facilitation

  • Workshops and capacity-building sessions

  • One-on-one executive coaching (non-clinical, educational)

    These services are educational and advisory in nature. They do not constitute legal representation or create an attorney-client relationship.

Engagement Examples

Selected engagements have included facilitating workshops on the neurobiology of stress and resilience to enhance decision-making and performance under pressure among personnel operating in conflict-affected and high-pressure environments.

Advisory work has also included supporting stakeholders in implementing peace agreement provisions related to international humanitarian law and international criminal law, including translating legal commitments into operational and institutional practice.