Certificate in Conflict and Dispute Management for Project Managers

Certificate of Participation provided by Conrad Grebel University College and the University of Waterloo

Instructor Profiles

Primary Trainer: Prof. Sami M. Fereig

Certificate Program Manager: Sue Baker

 

Sami M. Fereig, B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D., P.Eng., PMP, F.ASCE
Prof. Fereig has nearly fifty years of experience in civil engineering, over thirty of which have been spent in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level.  He received his advanced degrees from the University of Waterloo.  He is founder and president of Fercan Corporation, started in 1989, that provides training, dispute resolution and project management for the construction industry.  Sami has practised in both North America and the Middle East and is actively involved in construction contract administration and project management with a number of organizations which include public and private companies in both engineering and construction.  He has developed and delivered educational programs and training for many public-sector and private-sector clients and universities, and has also served as an arbitrator, expert witness, technical advisor and peer reviewer on a wide range of international projects.  Sami is also a mediator and negotiator, and recently authored a five-volume series of textbooks dealing with 'Contract Management in Engineering and Construction Projects' which were published in 2007. He was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers in November 2009 in recognition of his significant accomplishments, professional distinction in the industry, and the impact he has made on the field of civil engineering.

 

Keith Regehr, B.A., J.D., M.T.S.
Keith Regehr has extensive experience in family law, divorce mediation, mental health law, welfare law and employment litigation. While not currently practising law, he has served as Staff Lawyer, Complaints, Law Society of Upper Canada involving investigations of complaints and allegations of serious professional misconduct. Keith has had several secondments with Mennonite Central Committee in Lesotho, South Africa, with the Lancaster Mediation Center in Pennsylvania, and as part of an anti-racism project.  He is an experienced conflict resolution/conflict management/conflict transformation professional and his focus is workplace conflict (both business and not-for-profit organizations) and conflict in churches/congregations. He is interested in exploring the ways that conflict is shaped by the structures of an organization and its relational systems, and using shifts in the structures and relational systems to assist in long-term changes in how conflict occurs and is dealt with by the organization. He has recently become a consultant with Core4 Management Systems, a company that works with businesses and other organizations to install a participative management system.  His specialties include workplace conflict, church conflict, conflict resolution training, dialogue-based adult education, and participative management systems.

 

Richard Beifuss,  B.A.Sc. (Hon. E.E.),  P.Eng.,  C.Arb.,  Ph.D. 
Dr. Beifuss combines engineering training with more than thirty-five years experience within Canadian industry as an engineering consultant, employee and owner, and in the government’s civil service as a manager of technical resources (electrical), project manager, technical expert, program manager and Director. He has extensive expertise in alternate (appropriate) dispute resolution (ADR) in diverse claims (marine, transportation, buildings and real property management). He is also a speaker and lecturer to groups (national and international) on ADR and Contract Claims Management and Avoidance.  He is the designer and lecturer of an arbitration course for Carleton University in Ottawa, and for University of Waterloo (Conrad Grebel University College), and is accredited by Canadian Construction Association’s Gold Seal Program. Dr. Beifuss is the Chair of the education committee of the ADR Institute of Ontario, ADRIO. He is also Secretary of the Dispute Resolution Panel of IESO (Independent Electricity System Operators) for the Province of Ontario, and is currently President of the Rotary Club of Fort Erie.

 

Warren D. Griffin,  B.Sc. (Hons), LL.B.
Warren Griffin, a lawyer and partner in the firm of Giesbrecht, Griffin, Funk and Irvine in Kitchener, Ontario, practises primarily in the areas of corporate, commercial, taxation, real estate, wills and estates. He has taught business courses at Wilfred Laurier University's School of Business and Economics and business law courses at the University of Waterloo's School of Accountancy. He is also a part of a teaching team assembled for the Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada to provide continuing education as part of a certification program administered through the University of Waterloo. For that program he provides instruction on legal issues such as contracts, construction liens, construction contracts and related topics.