About Zena Zumeta
Internationally known as both a mediator and trainer of mediators, Zena D. Zumeta is president of the The Collaborative Workplace, Mediation Training & Consultation Institute and Zena Zumeta Mediation in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. Ms. Zumeta is a former board member and president of the Academy of Family Mediators (now merged into the Association for Conflict Resolution), past president of the Michigan Council for Family and Divorce Mediation, and past Regional Vice President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. She is also a former member of the Advisory Council for the Family Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and ACR's Membership and Governance Committees.
Ms. Zumeta has extensive experience as a trainer, mediator, facilitator and consultant. She has worked with organizations since 1971, and has been an attorney, trainer and labor negotiator since 1975 and a mediator since 1981.
She is an approved civil and family mediator in Michigan, and an approved mediation trainer for Michigan and many other states.
Ms. Zumeta is the recipient of the the Family Mediation Council-Michigan Liftetime Achievement in Mediation Award; the National Education Association/Saturn Corporation Award for Union-Management Collaboration; the John Haynes Distinquished Mediator Award from ACR; and the Kumba Award from the National Conference on Minorities in ADR.