Founder

Andre Bisasor is a Harvard-trained negotiation specialist who serves as a negotiation and conflict resolution trainer and consultant with advanced dispute resolution skills. Born and raised in Jamaica, and educated in the US, Andre brings an international and diverse richness to his work.

Andre is the founder of the Negotiation & Leadership Conference at Harvard University, broadly recognized as one of the largest and most influential gatherings of thought leaders on negotiation in the world. Through working with top scholars at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (such as Thomas Schelling, Howard Raiffa, William Ury, Larry Susskind, Jeswald Salacuse, Dan Shapiro, Michael Wheeler, Robert Cialdini, Eric Green, John Richardson & Sheila Heen, Ben Heineman, Preston Williams and Chris Voss, etc), Andre developed several ground-breaking programs at Harvard University that explored the impact of race, religion, culture and youth on conflict and negotiation outcomes. These programs also pioneered the examination of the development of interpersonal negotiation skills among minorities. His work has also focused on other cutting-edge areas in the field such as strategy and ethics in negotiations, high-stakes and difficult negotiations, and social, emotional & spiritual intelligence in negotiations. These programs have equipped thousands of participants both in the US as well as internationally including Poland, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, Canada, China, Jamaica, and many other countries. Andre’s work has been featured several times on NBC/WHDH as well as in the Harvard Gazette and the Harvard Crimson newspapers.

Andre is also the President of the Harvard Negotiation Alumni Society, a Harvard-wide organization whose mission is to pull together on a world-wide basis all Harvard alumni involved in the field of negotiation.

Andre’s professional experience also includes work in the venture capital field where he negotiated/structured “seed-stage” capital for multi-million dollar projects. With experience in strategy and business consulting, he has served as board director, developed business plans for clients, engaged in deal transaction negotiations and delivered on marketing strategy development. His experience includes work for Andersen Consulting, Terrafly (a joint venture between NASA and The National Science Foundation), Dell, Cingular and AT&T Wireless. Andre also has hands-on public service experience as a teacher/tutor to disadvantaged, inner-city, high-school students in the Miami-Dade public school system via the federally-funded GEAR-UP initiative (a program similar to Teach For America). In addition, Andre has consulted at the board level with social enterprise/non-profit organizations in Jamaica dedicated to transforming the impoverished communities of Kingston.

Andre is also the founder of the Institute For Negotiation Leadership & Diplomacy, a non-profit dedicated to teaching negotiation skills to under-resourced youth and to minority communities as an economic empowerment tool.

Throughout his career, Andre has worked with several celebrities, and newsmakers including Tony Robbins, Stephen M.R. Covey, Mitch Kapor, Steve Stoute, Randall Pinkett, Divya Narendra and Myles Munroe. He has also worked with several high-level government officials including from the Obama administration, the government of South Africa and the government of Jamaica. Andre has also been involved in numerous high-level negotiations with a variety of organizations ranging from fortune 500 companies and national governments to academic institutions and non-profit organizations. Dynamic and captivating, Andre also is a featured speaker at a number of conferences and events around the country.

Andre has a BA in Theology from ORU with expertise in Hermeneutics. He also holds an MBA in Marketing and MSc in Finance from Florida International University. A graduate of the Harvard CM Program, he is currently conducting further post-graduate research at Harvard University.