Introducing our growing team of business mediators.
We are all committed to helping you resolve your own conflict and reach your own agreements, in the most effective and efficient way.
Our mediators come from a broad range of backgrounds including lawyers, company owners, accountants, IFAs, therapists and coaches.
We are all dedicated to sharing experiences and insights with each other to create the best mediation and coaching service we can offer.
John Hind


Director and Founder – Compass Resolution
Mediator (Family/Workplace), Lawyer, Mediation Practice Consultant, Family Consultant, Group Facilitator, Conflict Management Consultant, Skills trainer.
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Gavin Fennell

Gavin is a Mediator(Family/Civil/Neighbourhood) and a Chartered Accountant. He specialises in high value mediations and is also qualified to meet with children to enable their views to be heard during mediation. Accredited by the Family Mediation Council.
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Frances Place



Skilled in mediating in highly emotional situations.
Able to help foucus parties on reaching constructive, realistic settlements enabling them to put the past dispute behind them in a positive way and if necessary, continue to work together.
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Paul Sandford

Principal Director of ASM, civil/commercial, workplace, employment, family and educational mediator and trainer with a judicial/legal background. He has knowledge and expertise in dispute resolution in a wide range of areas and disciplines and mediates online.
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Ben Beaumont

Civil/commercial mediator, arbitrator, adjudicator, barrister and chartered surveyor with extensive legal and directorial experience. He has wide-ranging international experience and works in a number of different worldwide jurisdictions.
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Joanne Byrne

Educational and civil mediator with very extensive experience of the educational sector including resolving SEN related disputes and the process of Early Dispute Resolution (EDR).
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Dr Russell Foster

Consultant psychiatrist with extensive medicolegal, managerial and judicial expertise.
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David King

Civil mediator and accountant with extensive financial and taxation related experience and expertise.
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David Santiago

UK and Portuguese accredited civil/workplace mediator, coach and trainer, completely bilingual English/Portuguese speaker and accomplished online mediator. David can undertake work in the UK, Portugal and Brazil.
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Russell Shackleton

Specialist in Contractual Evaluation, Financial Specialist, Business Consultant, Auditor, Investigator, Trainer and Coach with experience and expertise in the commercial, charitable and public sectors.
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Anthony Wooding

Civil, commercial and workplace mediator and trainer and managing partner in a long-established firm of solicitors. He has particular knowledge and expertise in resolving all types of civil, property and financial disputes.
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Brendan Schütte

UK and Irish accredited and highly accomplished workplace mediator, investigator, trainer and coach with particular expertise in the field of neutral evaluation. Brendan undertakes work in Ireland and in all parts of the UK including Northern Ireland.
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Jamie Marshall 

Jamie is a family mediator and member of the Family Mediators Association combining many years of legal experience with a facilitative and non-adversarial approach to help families make the best decisions in respect of their children and finances following separation. Jamie is also a civil mediator with particular interest in legal costs and workplace and business disputes.
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Mark Bronzajt

Mark is an Accredited Commercial and Civil Mediator with a legal background and currently a Business and Legal Consultant. Mark is available for mediations across the UK. He has a relaxed yet engaging approach to mediation, and is able to think and question parties in a creative manner. Mark brings over 25 years’ experience of the commercial world with him and this provides both a pragmatic and synergistic approach to the mediation process.
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Jonathan Griffith

Jonathan is a national and international mediator; civil, commercial, employment and workplace certified, with knowledge and/or experience in a number of areas including agribusiness, equestrian, international trade, intellectual property, logistics, linguistics, management and respiratory medicine. Having founded and developed the brands of several international companies and a charity, in twenty-eight countries, Jonathan has a strong entrepreneurial focus. He emphatically believes in mediation, and co-mediation, and that court ought to be avoided except for the few completely polarised disputes.
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