Solving Problems Together

Ben Schoeman is a highly qualified full time process facilitator with more than two decades’ experience, specialising in mediation, arbitration, training, change management, development facilitation, organisational transformation, community conflict management, environmental facilitation and labour relations or workplace services.

Nationally Accredited Mediator

Ben Schoeman started mediating between employers and employees in agriculture in South Africa in the late 1980s, when legal avenues were limited and relationships fraught. He has been a full time mediator ever since, while also providing a wide range of facilitation, investigation, adjudication and arbitration services.

Ben Schoeman is a Nationally Accredited Mediator (NMAS), and registered with the Resolution Institute and Australian Mediation Association and often provides services through Converge International.

Get in touch to set up a consultation, or use the contact form at the bottom of this page to enquire whether his services are right for you.

Why Hiring Ben Schoeman is Always a Winning Move

Range of Services & Experience

We have built up deep expertise and extensive experience in a very wide range of fields and problem solving processes. In addition we remain flexible, and will apply our knowledge to design a custom process to fit your needs.

Settlement Rate

Mediation and facilitated problem-solving has a proven track record of leading to mutually agreed and implementable outcomes in a very high number of cases. Through hard work and Ben Schoeman’s commitment, work ethic and diligence you can rely on successful results.

Timely Work

Where a case litigated through the courts could take months or years to resolve, mediation can be completed in a matter of days or weeks, depending on the availability of the parties and the complexity of the matter.

Affordable and Cost Effective

Mediation and facilitated problem solving is always cost effective when measured against the cost of a failure to deal with or resolve a dispute or against litigation. We will also keep his fees and costs affordable and negotiable.

What we do

Mediation

Mediation is a process where an impartial third party helps all sides to come to an agreement. A mediator is a skilled, independent professional who uses various techniques to find and build understanding and agreement between parties.

Adjudication

Adjudication is a formal range of techniques and processes for the resolution of disputes outside the courts. It can take the form of an arbitration, hearing, investigation, or a combination of processes.

Facilitation

Facilitation is any process where a third party chairs a conversation. The facilitator supports and manages constructive dialogue between groups with diverse and often diametrically opposite views or positions.

Training

Our courses are:

  • Aligned and designed to client needs
  • Structured with a methodology that is experiential, participative and that allows for the effective transfer of learning to the workplace
  • Skills-based, fun and informative

Coaching

In workplaces, Conflict Management Coaching helps to reduce the high cost of conflict. Through a one-on-one process, we can help you develop a set of skills and strategies to support your ability to engage in, manage, or productively resolve conflict.

Systems Design

By working closely with you, and developing an understanding of your unique requirements, we can help you design approaches, procedures and systems for addressing and resolving conflicts.

Let’s Chat

Contact us regarding your enquiry. Please be as detailed as possible. Include your industry along with any specific requests. To help us best service your enquiry, we recommend that you first describe the issue you’re having before telling us what you want to achieve and how you think we may help. You can also email or call us to make an appointment.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- Edmund Burke

Some of our best work …

During 2013 and 2014, Ben Schoeman was the lead mediator in a complex multi-party mediation between a private commercial enterprise and an affected community in Uganda, conducted on behalf of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank Group.

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