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Shane Dempsey

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Certified Mediator
First name
Shane
Last name
Dempsey
Phone
051 348336
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Address: Country
Ireland
Address: County of residence/business
Waterford
Address: Street/Townland
Dunmore Road
Practice Areas
  • Family Mediation
  • Workplace Mediation
  • Civil & Commercial Mediation
  • Community Mediation
Mediation Styles
  • Facilitative
  • Transformative
  • Evaluative
Bio
My background is as a Telecoms Research Engineer, where I worked as a technical lead on various EU IST programme-funded and nationally-funded research projects involving academic and industrial partners from throughout the EU. In 2008 I decided to train as a mediator, to add what are often considered "soft skills" to my technical knowledge. In mediation I discovered a new passion and a new career.

In 2010 I founded ARC Mediation with Dr Roisin O'Shea, an Irish mediator and legal academic. Our goal in founding ARC was to create a multidisciplinary mediation practice with mediators who had additional expertise in law, psychology, accountancy, business administration, project management etc.

The purpose of this expertise is not to advise clients, as that is not a mediator's role. It is to adeptly understand the dispute and our clients' interests better to increase the effectiveness of our mediations and improve the likelihood of success. Since 2010, we have grown in numbers, experience and developed a track record of bringing complex disputes to resolution.
In 2021, I was part of the group that set up the Irish Professional Mediators' Organisation
Experience
In the last decade I have completed over 400 different mediations including

Family mediation (separation/ divorce);
Commercial mediations including breach of contract, business stakeholder & settlement of tort actions;
Workplace mediations for a diverse range of businesses including governmental, SMEs and MNCs.
Probate mediations including disputed wills & proprietary estoppel
Business succession disputes
Practice Area Specific Training?
  • Family (32hr/40hr CPD course)
  • Civil & Commercial
International Mediation Institute (IMI) Member?
Yes
Online mediation offered?
  • Yes

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