Davis’ BiO

Davis completed his first mediation training 30 years ago. Throughout his career, he pursued a strong interest in preventing and resolving conflict. He retired from his primary career in 2008 having worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (26 years) and the Hawaii Environment Health Administration (7 years). He also held positions at all organizational levels including staff, supervisory, mid-level, and senior management. His career in environmental management also allowed him to expand his interests and skills to include: workplace conflict management, community relations, consensus building, meeting facilitation, team development, work group dynamics, and conference hosting.

Over the years, he has planned, facilitated, and mediated a wide variety of conflict private consensus-building sessions. His mediation work has involved a broad range of situations including family issues, divorce settlements, and workplace disputes. For the past eight years, he has been serving as a pre-trial mediator in the Sonoma County Superior Court. His court work involves cases related to: civil harassment, landlord-tenant relations, personal injury, neighbor disputes, and countless more small claims matters. He also mediates cases for the Sonoma County Juvenile Probation Department, which operates a youth-offender diversion program to help young offenders avoid a criminal record. These mediations involve working with the parents and child to develop an eight-week restorative justice plan that the child must complete to avoid a criminal trial.

Davis enjoys helping people navigate, understand, and resolve their disputes to the satisfaction of all parties involved. He believes when we resolve conflict through face-to-face conversation, we help one another get what is most important to us, we help ourselves grow as people, and we help make the world a better place.