Michael Payne

Current

• Owner/ Consultant at OurWayHome.net

Past

• Mediator at Los Angeles County Superior Court
• Corporate Paralegal at Mendes & Mount

Education

• Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
• University of San Francisco
• Santa Clara University School of Law

• New College of California
• Mosten Mediation Training
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Berkeley
• Golden Gate University
• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Company

Michael Payne’s Summary

In the beginning: BA Communication & Fine Arts (Sculptor), worked in the field of designing, fabricating, and installing custom architectural detail for Victorian restoration, Hotel lobbies, Hardscape landscape construction. Also worked on all phases of construction for 15 years as a business owner.

Construction lead me into the legal field where I received a Corporate Paralegal certificate (Attorney Assistant Training Program, AATP) from UCLA in Corporate Law. Over the course of eight years I began taking workshops on conflict resolution and mediation. I became a mediator sitting on the Los Angeles County Superior Court panel of mediators.

Subsequently I received a Masters degree in Nonprofit Administration (MNA) from USF with an emphasis in Organizational Development. I worked on small business and nonprofit change initiatives as a consultant.

I am currently working on a PhD at Saybrook in Psychology and Organizational Systems. In the short-term, I am working with individuals in the "Life/ Personal/ Executive Coach" field assisting with personal and individual growth or change.

In the longer term (+5 years), I plan on writing a book on Personal Change within 3 years then traveling on book tour and giving workshops around the country.

In the far future I would like to become a mediator of international business and social disputes on the American Arbitration Association sub-panel International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR).

I currently have a three-month Life/ Executive Coach program that I give which includes 3 face-to-face sessions (8 hours in the beginning, 4 in the middle, then 2 at the end), plus 10 hours of phone and/or project time, and three 3-hour workshop/ seminars. The middle session can be used to facilitate a meeting, to work out a problem with another, or to mediate an issue. See my website for details:
www.OurWayHome.net

Motto: Stop the bleeding, Clean up the clutter, Learn a few new tricks, and Make a new plan.

Michael Payne’s Specialties:

Personal and small business crisis management necessitating dramatic change. Values and cultural issues. Strategic Planning. Mediation. Facilitation. Training, Workshops, Seminars.

Michael Payne’s Experience

• Owner/ Consultant

  OurWayHome.net

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  February 2004 — Present (5 years 10 months)

  I do Life/ Personal/ Executive Coaching, helping change the world one person at a time.
  
  Motto: Stop the bleeding, Clean up the clutter, Learn a few new tricks, and Make a new plan.
  
  See my website for details of my 3-month program.

• Mediator

  Los Angeles County Superior Court

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Judiciary industry)

  January 1997 — October 1999 (2 years 10 months)

  I mediated cases ranging from $25,000 to $500,000 primarily having to do with business disputes, but also racial discrimination, construction defect, fraud, compliance, and software patent issues. It is my experience that in 90% of the cases I heard, the initial problem (stated in the Complaint) was based on high emotion, and was mis-categorized. During the proceedings the true underlying issue emerged thereby rendering a solution much easier. This was my specialization.

• Corporate Paralegal

  Mendes & Mount

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)

  January 1997 — December 1997 (1 year )

  I worked in the Los Angeles office supporting eight attorneys but primarily assigned to five large cases. My primary case was in the CIRCLA superfund environmental insurance subrogation SUN/Jalisco case with Lloyd's of London as our client, but also running the 20 firm defense team. I also worked on other environmental cases, and prior to working at Mendes & Mount I worked as a temp in some of the largest law firms in Los Angeles, including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and O'Melveny & Myers. I worked on Mergers & Acquisitions and California Environmental/ Energy issues.

Michael Payne’s Education

• Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center

  PhD , Organizational Systems/ Psychology , 2008 — 2012 (expected)

  Current student at this distance-learning PhD program.

• University of San Francisco

  MNA , Nonprofit Administration/ Organizational Development , 2002 — 2004

• Santa Clara University School of Law

  Certificate , International Environmental & Human Rights Law , 2002 — 2002

  This was given as a Summer Abroad 2002 program in Geneva, Switzerland and Strasbourg, France.

• New College of California

  JD , Law , 2001 — 2002

  I completed the first-year law courses at New College School of Law: Torts, Contracts, Criminal law, and Legal research & writing.

• Mosten Mediation Training

  Certificate , Mediation , 1997 — 1999

  This was the primary professional mediation training program that I completed, including Basic and Intermediate Divorce mediation, plus Advanced business mediation. In addition to this program, I also completed my 30-hour basic mediation training through the Los Angeles Superior Court, Workplace and Racial issue training through the Los Angeles City Attorney's office given by the Federal Conciliation Service, and numerous other conflict resolution training programs such as the Alternatives to Violence Project, basic, intermediate, advance, training for trainers. See my resume on my website for a full list of trainings.
  
  This is the website for Mosten Mediation Training:
  http://www.mostenmediation.com/training/index.html

• University of California, Los Angeles

  AATP , Corporate Paralegal , 1996 — 1996

  This Attorney Assistant Training Program (AATP) is essentially a paralegal certificate given in cooperation with the University of California School of Law, and is an approved program by the American Bar Association.

• University of California, Berkeley

  Course work , Landscape Architecture/ Drafting , 1989 — 1989

  I took three classes in Landscape Architecture in the UC, Berkeley Extension program, primarily for drafting and design of architectural detail and to create working drawings for construction.

• Golden Gate University

  MS , Real Estate/ Business , 1986 — 1986

  Completed the foundational classes: Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Finance, Economics, & Computer technology for business.

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  BA , Communication & Fine Arts , 1975 — 1979

  I have a double specialization in Drawing & Sculpture (bronze casting). I had originally planned on going on into Architecture with this degree as the foundation. My plan was to design and build architectural environments, which I did without the architecture degree.

Additional Information

Michael Payne’s Websites:

• My Company

Michael Payne’s Groups:

International Coach Federation (ICF) SF Chapter,
American Psychology Association (APA),
Society of Human Resource Professionals (SHRM),
Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMCUSA.org),
Psychologists for Social Responsibility,
SF Coaches,
NorthBayCoaches.org,
South Bay Organizational Development Network (SBODN),
Academy of Family Mediators (AFM),
Grace Cathedral Episcopal Church,
Religious Society of Friends San Francisco (Quaker),
ITEX Barter Group,
Meetup.com,
Lightworkers.org,
Care2.org

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