Carol Barkes

Fox TV has called Carol Barkes “one of the TOP Neuroscience and Conflict Resolution experts in the country.” She is a neuroscience-based conflict resolution professional, mediator, peak performance specialist, and best-selling author with a wide variety of experience. She has served as the Mediation Director for Idaho’s Fourth District Court, is an ADR Advisor to the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA, an Adjunct Professor for Boise State University and College of Southern Idaho, and is a sought-after keynote speaker with a thriving private practice through which she provides training, consultation, facilitation, coaching, and mediation for some of the world’s most notable organizations. In careers gone by, she has been a professional firefighter in the San Francisco Bay Area, and owned a wine bistro.