Dottie Willis earned her doctorate in
Education from the University of Louisville, where she currently teaches
prospective English teachers. After three decades of teaching, Dottie
retired as the Jefferson County Public Schools Writing Specialist in
May, 2007. Dottie and her husband Wayne are parents of three adult
sons--Damon, Justin, and Carden--and proud grandparents of Jackson
Willis.
Kristin Stuedle
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in
public practice with the firm of
Stuedle Spears & Francke PSC.
Kristin is a born and raised Louisvillian and is proud of it! She is a certified public accountant (CPA) in public practice with the firm of Stuedle Spears & Francke PSC. She enjoys traveling, swimming and is an avid horseracing fan. Volunteering for various non-profit organizations is another past time Kristin enjoys.
"Being a part of SPAVA has been very rewarding. I hope you will become involved as well, together we can make a difference in our school systems and eventually in the lives of so many. Whatever you can offer, whether it is your time or money, it is no small thing in the eyes of the child who benefits from SPAVA."
Sharon Van Horn
Sharon Van Horn is a Consultant, Mediator, and
Life Coach and resides in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the President of
CDM Resources, a small consulting business she started in 1997 and works
with numerous individuals, couples, families and groups in addition to
businesses in the United States and Europe.
She is also President of Life Connections International, a non-profit
organization helping people to discover their unique design and
encouraging them to have life-giving relationships with others through
modeling, community building, mentoring, teaching, ministry trips, and
retreats.
She is actively involved in Alternative Dispute Resolution in
Louisville, Kentucky as a Mediator through the Kentucky State Court
System and has a private practice which helps individuals, couples,
families and groups understand themselves and each other in order to
build healthy and lasting relationships and resolve conflicts. Helping
people learn to communicate better, resolve issues, and build
relationships that previously appeared deadlocked is her passion and
brings her a great deal of satisfaction.
Tony
Belak
Tony Belak is the Ombuds at the University of Louisville, Associate
Director of the Center for Conflict Resolution at La Sierra University,
Riverside, California, founder of The Institute for Workplace
Transition, and the former Executive Director of the International
Center for Collaborative Solutions at Sullivan University, Louisville,
Kentucky, where he was also on the faculty of the Master of Science in
Conflict Management program. He was the Senior Dispute Resolution
Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs and is not only a
mediator and arbitrator but also a teacher in basic, advanced, and
specialized conflict resolution. He is recognized for his innovation in
designing conflict resolution programs within the workplace.
He has taught conflict resolution at the University of Louisville Louis
D. Brandeis School of Law, Indiana University Southeast College of
Business, and MBA courses and seminars at the Vienna campus of Webster
University and Bratislava, Slovakia. He is the first attorney graduate
of the George Washington University Interagency Institute for Federal
Health Care Executives (1992). He was an original founder of the
Louisville Bar Association ADR Committee and served for eight years on
the Kentucky Bar Association ADR Committee and as its chair for two
years. He is the former Regional Counsel for the Department of Veterans
Affairs and was an initial member of the Civil Justice Reform Act
Committee for the Western District of Kentucky, former assistant
Commonwealth Attorney, special assistant U.S. Attorney, and President of
the Federal Bar Association, Kentucky Chapter. He is a certified
mediator and arbitrator with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
(FINRA), the Kentucky Collaborative Family Network, the U.S. Postal
Service REDRESS Program, trained as an arbitrator by the American
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), a mediator/arbitrator with the
Southern Indiana Realtors Association, Inc., and a member of the
Louisville Labor-Management Committee. He also is past two term chair of
the Louisville Bar Association ADR/Mediation Section and past President
of the Mediation Association of Kentucky, and President of the Kentucky
Chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association.
Mr. Belak has traveled throughout the United States and Europe lecturing
and training in mediation and dispute resolution. He has taught
mediation skills to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
internal mediators and conflict resolution training to United Nations
and Austria Kontrollbank managers and supervisors in Vienna and Irish
Department of Defense mediators in Dublin. He is the founder and past
president of the Federal ADR Council, Inc., a non-profit shared neutral
mediation project for federal agencies in Kentucky and Indiana, the
oldest in the nation. He was instrumental in establishing the Mediation
Association of Kentucky, the Jefferson County Court Annexed Mediation
Rule, the Federal Court prisoner petition mediation project, and one of
the earliest peer and truancy mediation programs in Jefferson County,
Kentucky. He served on the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
focus group to establish core competencies for their internal roster of
neutrals, the Administrative Office of the Courts Mediator Guidelines
Committee, and has published articles in national magazines and local
newspapers regarding conflict resolution. He began his interest in ADR
as an ombudsman in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in
1973. He teaches a certified web assisted mediator skills and
collaborative practices training program and consults and trains for
business and industry worldwide.
Tony
Belak