Joe Bubman
Senior Negotiation Trainer | Director of Negotiation Programs
jbubman@mwi.org | 847-712-5454
Bio
Joe Bubman is a senior negotiation and conflict resolution practitioner and the Director of Negotiation Programs at MWI. He has helped leading companies across a range of industries — including pharma, technology, financial services, oil and gas, and entertainment — to strengthen internal negotiation competencies and manage external relationships with partners. Joe has worked globally for clients such as 3M, Boston Scientific, Dell, Deloitte, IBM, MedImmune, Merck, Novartis, Procter & Gamble, Royal Bank of Canada, Shell, Southern California Edison, The Walt Disney Company, and Xerox. Joe has conducted negotiation and collaboration skills workshops for corporate clients in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. Previously, Joe served as Mercy Corps’ Acting Director of the Peace and Conflict team and, prior to that, as a Senior Peacebuilding Advisor, helping develop and implement conflict management programs in Guatemala, Iraq, Mali, Myanmar, South Sudan, and Syria. He led the development of the Negotiating for Humanitarian Access Playbook for the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding communities. He is a co-recipient of the 2020 Melanie Greenberg U.S. Peacebuilding Award of Excellence and was identified by Time Magazine in 2020 as one of “27 People Bridging Divides Across America.”
