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Jennifer Beer


Principal, JB Intercultural Consulting

Jennifer Beer is an anthropologist and facilitator who guides organizations and communities in negotiating conflicts and cross-cultural issues. Her consulting practice offers:

  1. Negotiation and mediation training and advising.


  2. Cross-cultural communication training and consultation (with a focus on Japan and on working with multiple cultures).


  3. Meeting facilitation and mediation services.

Courses and workshops
  Dr. Beer has taught courses in Negotiation for the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, the ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens,and the University of Sciences in Philadelphia, and is the lead professor for the post-Masters Conflict Resolution Certificate at Bryn Mawr School of Social Work. She offers training sessions on Japan and on cross-cultural issues for corporate and non-profit clients, and has taught several college courses on cross-cultural communication.

Facilitation & Mediation:
  Jenny Beer has been a professional mediator and facilitator for 24 years, Recent facilitations include public input meetings for a Delaware state agency, community-industry meetings for a large urban chemical plant, staff and staff/student dispute mediation for two colleges, a suburban police department undergoing reorganization, and strategic planning sessions for non-profit organizations. She also mediates community disputes for the Center for Resolutions and authored The Mediator's Handbook (winner of Amazon.com's "Best-seller in Mediation, Arbitration, and Negotiation Category" award for two years in a row).

Projects:
  In 2004-5 she worked on an Public Radio documentary about nuclear war and Japan's atom bomb experience. In 2005 she travelled to Kabul where she taught negotiation and strategic planning for government and NGO staff setting up new women's resource centers in Afghanistan.

Background:
  Jenny Beer's Anthropology Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley) was completed in 1993. Her thesis researched Japan's international tourism industry in Asia. She also earned a Masters in International Administration in 1982 from the School for International Training in Vermont. She has lived in Germany and in Japan, and speaks Japanese, basic German and French.

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