Dr. Dan Dana

Dan Dana is the original founder of MTI, and now serves as a senior advisor for MTI. Holding a Ph.D. in psychology, Dan served for several years as a professor of organizational behavior at the University of Hartford (Connecticut) Graduate School of Business and has held faculty appointments at Syracuse University and several other institutions. (A former student once called him “Doctor Conflict,” and the moniker stuck!)

  • Author of Managing Differences: How to Build Better Relationships at Work and Home, published worldwide in six languages
  • Click to view book Author of Conflict Resolution: Mediation Tools for Everyday Worklife, a featured book in the McGraw-Hill Briefcase Books series
  • Invited lecturer, Syracuse University Summer Institute on Conflict Resolution (Maxwell School), 1997-2001.
  • Professor of conflict management and organizational behavior, University of Hartford Graduate School of Business, 1978-1985
  • Adjunct professor of conflict management, Ottawa University Phoenix and Kansas City, 1992-2005
  • Invited speaker at institutions worldwide, including Australia, Latin America, South Africa, Ghana, Japan, Sweden, Holland, and the former Soviet Union.
  • Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998, introducing “the first non-adversarial campaign in the history of American politics”
  • Cruise ship Life Enrichment Lecturer — Celebrity Cruises and other lines