Mary Lou O’Kennedy is a founding director of OAK Conflict Dynamics which is the leading Irish provider of mediation, conflict management training and consultancy in workplace dynamics. She has extensive experience over the past fourteen years in working with senior management in multinational companies, public and private hospitals, small and medium sized enterprises and public organizations in Ireland and Europe.

Mary Lou works in partnership with the Mediation Training Institute, Working with Resilience in Australia, and the CINERGY Group in Toronto. She is a principal trainer with the Mediation Training Institute and with the CINERGY Group in Conflict Management Coaching. She is also a professional mediator and lectures in Mediation with the Department of Law in Griffith College, Dublin.