Beata C. Lewis, J.D., provides leadership coaching and collaboration consulting services to a diverse range of high-performing business clients. Working with individuals and groups, she offers particular expertise in regenerating collaboration where it breaks down due to lapses in communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, collaborative process, and agreement structuring. Beata's expertise is distinguished by multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural experience, including that as a professional mediator (also experience with online mediation), facilitator, and former lawyer specializing in international business transactions. Clients have ranged from high tech organizations, professional associations, municipalities, federal and state agencies. Beata also offers skills training to support collaboration for business professionals, tailored to suit individual and organizational needs. She is one of a select group of coaches and consultants certified to work with the Reina Trust and Betrayal Model™ and to administer its instruments to benchmark and cultivate greater levels of trust within organizational systems.
Beyond her academic education, has studied with leaders in the fields of communication, conflict resolution, leadership, group process and strategic alliance structuring, including Angeles Arrien, Marshall Rosenberg, Kenneth Cloke, William Lincoln, and Robert Lynch. She is also a student of The Human Element™ as developed by Will Schutz and is qualified to administer FIRO-Element B.
Beata integrates embodied learning practices in all her work. This is informed by experience with various types of body awareness, movement, music performance, and healing practices, including dance, skiing (former Alpine skiing instructor), Reiki and yoga (former instructor of Iyengar-style hatha yoga).
Beata has lived and worked in several countries and is bi-lingual in English and German. She graduated from Pomona College with a B.A., cum laude, in International Relations. Her program included overseas study at the Institute for Graduate Studies in International Relations in Geneva, Switzerland, and research at the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development. She earned her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the State Bar of Texas. She also studied European Union trade law, international environmental law and international organizations policy-making at Queen Mary College (University of London).
