Jim Golden

Jim Golden has served as an elder in his church, founder of the Christian Leadership Project in the U.S. and a founder of the Center for Leadership Development in Kyiv, Ukraine. More recently, he has worked with some of America’s largest companies in negotiating humane win-win resolutions of conflicts. Golden’s work is the subject of a case study taught at Harvard Business School, where he speaks perennially and a Harvard Business Review video. Golden has served as a Visiting Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, a Senior Fellow at the Consensus Building Institute, and a client supervisor in the Harvard Law School Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program. His articles have appeared in academic and professional publications including the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. He has negotiated and consulted with senior staff to the President of the United States and the National Security Council and with officials in China and Ukraine. Jim learned to negotiate as a survival skill because he had four daughters.