Emma Barker

Emma is an AMINZ accredited Resolution Facilitator within the Commercial team, specialising in financial disputes and workplace disputes, especially focusing on workplace Kāpehu coaching, equipping people with practical tools and empowering them to resolve their own disputes. She practices as a facilitator, mediator, and workplace coach, and provides training to organisations in conflict management. Emma is a qualified Emotional Culture Deck practitioner as well as using other tools such as trust cards to assist teams to re-grow trust and build a strong emotional culture.

Emma is also an accredited family mediator. Her passion for assisting families comes from her experience working with young people as Youthline phone counsellor and an Upside youth mentor.  Her empathic and compassionate approach creates a safe process that focuses the parties on creating the best outcomes for the tamariki and rangatahi.

From her rural Waikato beginnings, Emma is now based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Before finding her way into mediation, Emma has worked in a variety of roles at places including IRD, libraries and Auckland District Health Board. When she is not mediating, she likes to stay active and is currently learning kick boxing which keeps her love of all things sweet in check.