PATHWAYS

MEET OUR TEAM

MISSION & VIsion

Put simply, “negotiation” is communicating with other people to try to reach agreements about things that we – and they – want and care about. In this sense, we all negotiate every day with the people around us. Whether with friends, neighbors, teachers, family, bosses or colleagues, the way in which we negotiate deeply affects how we relate to others and what we can accomplish.

Given its central role in our lives, problem-solving negotiation is a key skill that is an essential part of a well-rounded education. To this end, at PATHWAYS we work with students, educators and organizations to explore and apply proven, constructive approaches to problem-solving negotiation based on the “interest-based” methodology developed by the Harvard Negotiation Project.

Through experiential, co-curricular workshops and programs, we aim to empower participants to creatively negotiate their daily issues, resolve conflicts, and become positive role models in their schools, organizations and communities – and their academic, professional and personal lives.

We imagine a day when every student, educator and community leader will be equipped to negotiate creatively, constructively and fairly.

History

In 2011, an innovative proposition was articulated: could high school students be brought together from across diverse communities, through the common ground of English Language classrooms, in order to discover and learn “the Harvard method” for problem-solving negotiation – a technique taught at leading law schools and business schools around the world?

Together, educational leader Dr. Rachel Tal (Amal Group) and negotiation expert Dr. Shula Gilad (PON, Harvard) worked with Risa Levy of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to develop and run an experiential English-language negotiation skills program for high school students in Israel in cooperation with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and consulting firms Vantage Partners and Triad Consulting Group.

After years of experience and refinement by the founding team, and in response to demand from the educational community, PATHWAYS was launched in 2015 by long-time lead facilitator & consultant Avi Goldstein with social entrepreneur Daniel Nissimyan as an independent non-profit organization to carry forward and further develop the pioneering concept and vision.

TEAM

Avi Goldstein

Executive Director & Faclitator

Michael Schnall

Co-Director & Facilitator

Rachel Winner

Program Manager & Facilitator

Jessica Menasce

Program Manager & Facilitator

Michael Korman

Facilitator

Ido Oren

External Evaluator

Dr. Rana Abbas

External Evaluator

Susan Maishlish

Volunteer

Lauren Krouskoff

Volunteer

Shula Gilad

Consultant

ADVISORS

Bruce Patton

Getting to Yes

Co-author of the best-selling Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In and Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. Co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Vantage Partners, and Conflict Management Group (CMG).

Sheila Heen

Triad Consulting Group

Co-author of the New York Times Business Bestsellers Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, and Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well. Founder of Triad Consulting Group and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Shula Gilad

Harvard University

Senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and a consultant to various Middle East programs and organizations. Previously, Director of Policy Research at Kennedy School of Government’s Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East.

Donna Hicks

Dignity

Author of the book "Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict." Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Former Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

Mark Gordon

Vantage Partners

Founding partner of Vantage Partners, a global consulting firm spun out of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Co-founder and former Chairman of Conflict Management Group, a non-profit organization focused on disputes of international public concern (now merged into Mercy Corps).

Rachel Viscomi

Harvard Law School

Director of Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School. Works to train law students to become problem-solving lawyers, as they learn to support clients in rethinking the way they manage conflict in organizations.

Rachel Tal

Amal Group

Head of English Studies for the Amal network of colleges and comprehensive high schools in Israel for over 30 years. Since her Humphrey fellowship at Boston University in 2006-2007, she has continued to focus on programs for promoting tolerance, peace education, and social cohesion.

Hussein Tarabeih

TAEQ

Founder and Executive Director of the Towns Association for Environmental Quality (TAEQ), the first Unit for Environmental Quality in the Arab Sector of Israel. Published expert and lecturer on environmental issues, co-existence, environmental conflicts, and urbanization.

Elad Oreg

Ono Academic College

Law Faculty member and lecturer at the Ono Academic College in Israel, where he has created a hybrid e-learning Mediation course being taught in all faculties. Facilitates an annual program to promote dialogue between students from different sectors of Israeli society.