In this episode Colin speaks with Jurie Groenewald, a South African commercial attorney and mediator with 25+ years experience, about his new RAMUS tool for pre-mediation case assessment.

RAMUS is a self-service engine that takes your mediation brief and delivers a complete 9-section Assessment Pack in minutes — Readiness Score, ZOPA mapping, Creative Pivot™ strategy, caucus plans, prepared questions, and compliant legal templates. 40–60 pages of structured preparation. The mediator walks in knowing the settlement landscape before anyone sits down. You can learn more about the tool and run it yourself at mediate.ramus.co.za.

In this episode Colin interviews Brad Porteus, founder of BridgeGrades.org, a report card for Congress that grades politicians on how collaboratively or divisively they govern by compiling objective 3rd-party data. Bridge Grades offers citizen voters an alternative lens to evaluate and assess the performance of our United States legislators beyond ideology or party affiliation. Brad was motivated to create BridgeGrades.org because he believes toxic polarization and hyper-partisanship is holding us back. His multi-year quest is to build Bridge Grades into a transparent, open source, crowdsourced, and independently governed system protected from special interests. Durable and self-sustaining, Bridge Grades aspires to be a public utility that offers citizen voters an easy way to sort Congressional bridgers from dividers, creating incentives that can lead toward more collaborative governance for our common interests.

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In this episode we speak with Julie M. Walker, an experienced arbitrator and mediator from Denver, Colorado, about a recent scam attempt she experienced and thwarted. We discuss how to recognize such scams, the best steps to take in response, and the growing prevalence of such schemes.

Learn more about Julie here: https://irelandstapleton.com/people/julie-m-walker/