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Outsourced Organizational Ombuds Services

MWI’s Outsourced Organizational Ombuds provide a confidential, off-the-record space where visitors share concerns, explore possible next steps toward resolution, and become better equipped to move forward productively. MWI Ombuds help visitors talk through ways to raise an issue informally or formally, coach visitors on how to have difficult conversations, mediate between two or more people, work with groups in conflict, and more. Additionally, ombuds provide anonymized, aggregated data to help illuminate areas of concern and systemic trends often unavailable to leadership.

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Outsourced Ombuds Overview

MWI’s Outsourced Organizational Ombuds provides companies, institutions, and non-profits with an independent, informal, impartial, and confidential resource that helps visitors (employees, faculty, staff, and students) raise and resolve issues within their organization. An ombuds:

  • Is available to all visitors to surface, address, and resolve various problems and issues.
  • Connects visitors to resources to resolve issues and better understand policies, guidelines, and organizational structure.
  • Acts as a confidential and informal contact to resolve concerns
  • Maintains strict confidentiality (except where there is an imminent threat of harm).
  • Does not keep records on individuals and provides anonymized feedback to leadership.

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For more information about MWI’s outsourced organizational ombuds services for your company or academic institution, please contact Chuck Doran, Ombuds and Executive Director, at cdoran@mwi.org or book a time to talk at https://www.calendly.com/chuckdoran/30min.

Ombuds Team Members

Dina Eisenberg

Outsourced Ombuds
dina-ombuds@mwi.org


Dina Lynch Eisenberg, JD, MBA is an outsourced ombuds with MWI and is on a mission to introduce the benefits of Ombuds work to more tech companies. Former lawyer, she served as an Organizational Ombuds in a variety of settings, including tech companies, manufacturing, banking as well as colleges and universities. Dina most recently was the Global Head of Ombuds Services for Twitter, designed their program and served as inaugural Organizational Ombuds. With almost a quarter century of experience, Dina founded Ombudsology.com, an Ombuds Advisory firm that offers outsourced ombuds services to mid-sized companies and ombuds career counseling to aspiring ombuds. Her upcoming book, Fixable Culture, is an action guide to transform companies from toxic to trusting through Ombuds programs. Dina is a sought-after speaker and podcast guest. Her ombuds work appears in Entrepreneur and Inc magazines.

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Keiko Suzuki

Outsourced Ombuds
keiko-ombuds@mwi.org


Keiko Suzuki is an Outsourced Organizational Ombuds with MWI. She has extensive experience in human resource management, executive coaching, mediation, training, and consulting throughout her twenty-year career with JPMorgan, General Electric, and Estee Lauder Group of Companies in Tokyo and New York City. As a consultant, Keiko has experience with a broad spectrum of clients including major Japanese and foreign finance, consumer goods, telecommunication, recruiting, and pharmaceutical companies. Keiko specializes in a range of organizational and management development solutions including assessment, change strategy formation, leadership development, offsite meeting facilitation, performance management, and career development. Keiko works directly with senior managers in a coaching capacity, as well as engages in other training and development methods for improving communication, coaching skills, feedback, change management, and diversity & inclusion. Keiko completed the Ombuds Foundations Course with the International Ombuds Association in 2016. Since 2015, she has taught mediation at Kumamoto University and conflict coaching at the Hitotsubashi University Business School (ICS). Keiko is a trained and certified coach (ICF, GTCI Team Coach, NLP & Processwork), EAP counselor, and mediator. She is a practitioner of psychometric assessment instruments including Situational Leadership, Team Management Profile, Strength Development Inventory, Lumina Spark, and Personnel Decisions International Assessment.

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Charmhee Kim

Outsourced Ombuds
charmhee-ombuds@mwi.org


Charmhee Kim is an experienced ombuds and cross-cultural trainer with MWI. She was an ombuds for 15 years at McKinsey & Company, a global management consultancy, addressing workplace conflicts, career development concerns and other challenges. She has been an active member of the International Ombuds Association (IOA) since 2007 and was trained in its Foundations of Organizational Ombudsman Practice Course which she later taught as faculty. Charmhee served on the IOA Board of Directors and co-chaired its Global Marketing Task Force. Prior to entering the ombuds profession, Charmhee worked as a management consultant, investment banker and public affairs specialist with the United Nations. She holds an MBA from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an MA from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Charmhee is trilingual in English, Korean and Mandarin Chinese.

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Jai Calloway

Outsourced Ombuds
jai-ombuds@mwi.org


Jai Calloway is an experienced, people‐focused ombudsperson with a mission to redefine the way people understand and work together by harnessing the power of difference. Jai has spent over ten years working and studying conflict resolution methodology and its intersection with diversity and inclusion within organizational settings. Jai previously served as Corporate Ombuds for Halliburton Oil Services and serves as an external organizational ombuds for small businesses cross‐industry. She is an alumnus of the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law – Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution. Jai was Vice‐Chair of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section and was Chair of the International Ombuds Association Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Task Force. In addition to her work as an ombuds, Jai works as an organizational development consultant where her focuses are conflict resolution, employee engagement and diversity & inclusion.

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Larry Hunt

Outsourced Ombuds


Larry Hunt is an ombuds with MWI and has worked as the Ombuds for Amherst College since 2019, following a career as HR Director for Smith College, Tufts University, and the J. Paul Getty Museum and Foundation. He has taught as an adjunct faculty member of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Management School. He regularly works with staff, faculty and administrators in conflict coaching, facilitating conversations, mediating disputes, giving referrals and providing upward feedback to effect positive organizational change. Larry has spent his career helping people navigate their way through conflict situations. He brings extensive experience and a strong theoretical background in analyzing and mediating disputes at the interpersonal and organizational level. Larry completed the graduate certificate program in Conflict and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and interned as a mediator in the court system. He was trained by the International Ombuds Association (IOA) in their Foundations of Organizational Ombuds Practice Course. He is an experienced executive and management coach and has consulted in this capacity and as a mediation and employee relations consultant for a wide variety of health care, education, and municipal organizations.

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Allison Monyei Whaley

Outsourced Ombuds
allison-ombuds@mwi.org


Allison Monyei Whaley is a skilled ombuds, mediator, and dispute resolution trainer. She earned her Juris Doctorate from Mercer University School of Law. Allison is a member of the International Ombudsman Association (IOA) and completed IOA’s Foundations of Organizational Ombudsman Practice Course. She is also a Certified Organizational Ombudsman Practitioner (CO-OP) and serves on IOA’s CO-OP Board of Directors. Allison has served as an Organizational Ombuds at Clemson University and at Montgomery College, where she provides services to all employees, including faculty, staff and administrators. Prior to ombudsing in higher education, Allison was an external-facing ombuds for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where she provided confidential ombuds services to businesses and corporations that were collaborating with the government as regulated entities. Before entering the ombuds profession, she worked as a nonprofit attorney, advocating on behalf of our nation’s veterans and their families. Several times in her career, Allison has been recognized as a leader having been selected for the President’s Leadership Institute at Clemson University, the FDA’s Leading for Results Leadership Development Program, and the FDA’s Leading at All Levels Aspiring Leaders Program. She is co-chair of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section Ombuds Committee and a member of and the administrator for the Black Ombuds Network.

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