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Transform Your Organisation With a Tailored Conflict Resolution Strategy.
CEDR supports organisations across the full spectrum of conflict and disputes. Whether you are looking to systemically improve how you resolve disputes, prevent more from happening or build and embed conflict resilience to drive performance, wellbeing and innovation, CEDR’s experts are here to help.
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Why Choose CEDR for Bespoke Organisational Support
Off-the-shelf solutions often fall short of addressing complex organisational challenges. At CEDR, our consultancy and strategy support centres on deep organisational diagnostics, conflict-resolution expertise, and programmes led by specialist mediators and practitioners.
Expert-Led Consultancy and Training for Sustainable Change
Whether you're tackling on-going team tensions, culture issues, or procedural inefficiencies, we help you:
- Uncover the underlying causes of conflict or performance gaps
- Design tailored interventions that fit your context
- Build sustainable internal capability over time
- Reduce reliance on formal grievances, investigations or legal processes
- Deliver stronger outcomes for your teams and culture
Our consultants bring both strategic experience and mediation accreditation, ensuring neutral, practical, and effective guidance across your organisation.
Trusted by global brands and industry regulators
Meet the Experts Behind the Strategy
Real-world experience, strategic mindset and human-first delivery. CEDR’s Business Strategy consultants are more than trainers; they’re practicing mediators, trusted advisors and culture changers.
Every member of our team works at the frontline of conflict resolution, combining decades of hands-on experience with backgrounds in law, psychology, negotiation and organisational change. They’ve advised FTSE 100 leaders, helped rebuild failing cultures, and transformed grievance-heavy workplaces into collaborative, high-performing environments.
What sets them apart?
- Practitioner-first: Our consultants don’t just teach strategy, they mediate, coach, and consult every week.
- Cross-disciplinary expertise: Expect the perfect balance of empathy and challenge, drawn from law, HR, psychology and negotiation fields.
- Strategic depth: We go beyond surface-level fixes. Our team helps you build a long-term conflict resolution strategy that supports people, performance and culture.
- Boardroom credibility: Whether guiding HR or working directly with SLTs, we speak the language of change at every level.
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Strategy That Makes a Measurable Impact
CEDR’s strategic support goes beyond advice; it unlocks tangible, long-term change. Below are examples of how we’ve helped clients tackle entrenched issues and embed a culture of resolution.
Sanofi - Reducing Formal HR Cases
Challenge
High volume of formal processes was damaging staff morale and creating legal exposure.
Solution
CEDR provided strategic consultancy and delivered conflict management training to develop internal resolution skills.
Result
62% reduction in formal HR cases, with improved employee engagement and a stronger workplace culture.
Cross-Border Infrastructure Provider - Breaking Organisational Gridlock
Challenge
Senior teams were caught in recurring internal disputes, affecting collaboration and decision-making.
Solution
Bespoke facilitated dialogue and a wider people strategy review, led by consultants with industry and cultural context.
Result
Renewed alignment at the top level and the introduction of new dispute-handling protocols.
Financial Services Client - Restoring Trust Post-Merger
Challenge
A merger led to cultural clashes between leadership teams, with a growing risk of attrition.
Solution
CEDR designed a mediation-informed leadership development programme supported by one-to-one coaching and strategic review.
Result
Conflicts de-escalated, retention improved, and cross-team collaboration was restored.
Training vs Consultancy - What’s the Right Fit for Your Organisation?
Not all conflict challenges require the same solution. At CEDR, we help organisations choose the most effective path, whether that's building internal skills through training or addressing systemic issues through strategic consultancy.
This section outlines how both approaches work and when each is most effective.
Choosing between them doesn’t have to be guesswork. Many of our clients begin with training and progress into consultancy once deeper challenges are surfaced, or vice versa.
Unsure which is right for you?
Use our quick tool to match your goals to the most appropriate solution.
Insights to Help You Handle Conflict Better
Browse practical content written by the specialists behind our services, from how-to guides and compliance tips to deep dives on ADR strategy, culture, and communication.
