RENE-MARC MANGIN

RENÉ-MARC MANGIN is a management and communications consultant and mediator. He specializes in organizational development, nonverbal and cross-cultural communications and environmental conflict. He has been responsible for several successful organizational change initiatives including culture change and organizational restructuring as an executive and as a consultant.

He is a professional mediator and environmental toxicologist with over 20 years of experience mediating a variety of multi-jurisdictional environmental conflicts involving pesticides, hazardous waste, and economic development over the past 23 years. In the late 1980s, he was a senior advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the Superfund negotiations at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Since then, he has mediated many labor negotiations, workplace conflicts, and local government disputes and been the Strategic Organizational Development Consultant for the Bonneville Power Administration. He was the PNW Chapter president of the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution in the late 1990s.

Dr. Mangin has also been a faculty member in public administration at The Evergreen State College and Washington State University, an adjunct professor of management at Marylhurst University, and an instructor in communications the Mediation Clinic of the University of Washington’s Continuing Legal Education program. He is the author of several articles in dispute resolution, a chapter in a book entitled, Public Policy and Conflict Resolution (1990), and a book on nonverbal behavior entitled Minds in Motion (2009). Dr. Mangin is currently working on a new book tentatively titled "Enraged.”

Rene-Marc holds a multi-disciplinary doctorate, a master’s degree in environmental toxicology, and bachelor’s degrees in cell biology and anthropology from Washington State University. He also has an MBA from the University of Oregon and is a former executive in the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Washington State Department of Ecology.

Rene-Marc also does educational consulting specializing in diagnosing learning disabilities and creating remediation plans. He combines knowledge of how the brain works from post-doctoral training in diagnosing disabilities and learning styles with training in advanced teaching methods to provide clients with advice about ways to enhance their learning experiences and utilize their strengths.

He has 10 years of college teaching experience and has five years of post-doctoral training in teaching techniques and classroom management with Michael Grinder, a world renowned education consultant. He also has received advanced training in the clinical assessment and management of differences in learning with Dr. Michael Levine, the founder of All Kinds of Minds. He uses his doctoral level training in neuroscience and speech communication with his own experiences with dyslexia and dyspraxia to help parents, teachers, and professionals.

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Motivational Addresses:

The Human Side of Logistics (US Corps of Engineers, Regional HQ)
H.O.P.E. Matters (Opening Day, North Kitsap School District)
Maintaining Resilience During Change (Annual Northwest Natural Gas Management Retreat)