Teaching and Training

Leslie Macleod is Adjunct Professor and Co-Director of the Master of Laws Program in Dispute Resolution at Osgoode Professional Development.  She teaches Introduction to Dispute Resolution, The Theory and Practice of Dispute Resolution, and Dispute Analysis and Process Design as well as continuing legal education courses, including the Osgoode Certificate in Negotiation program. 

Leslie spent a decade teaching Dispute Settlement to senior students at Osgoode Hall Law School, and various ADR courses at the University of Toronto’s Continuing Education Program as well as teaching negotiation at the University of Toronto Law School. Leslie also designs and delivers customized conflict resolution training programs tailored to the specific learning goals of the client. Topics include negotiation models and strategies, mediation models and best practices, and adjudicative processes. 

Leslie has worked with clients that are engaged in vastly different areas of endeavour.  Training assignments have included joint training to management and unions on interest-based collective bargaining, coast-to-coast negotiation training workshops for major Canadian insurers, and human rights training to Police Services in Ontario.  Leslie provided extensive mediation training in the Philippines, under the auspices of Canada’s National Justice Institute,

Academic courses and training workshops are designed to enhance the participants' ADR knowledge and skills through various methodologies including presentations, class discussions, case studies, demonstrations, simulations, and videos.  They emphasize there is no one “right way” to address a conflict; rather, highly skilled practitioners have the ability to properly assess a conflict and, by understanding the various ways in which conflict can be most effectively addressed, choose the optimal approach.   

975-A Elgin Street West, 

Suite 420

Cobourg, Ontario K9A 5J3

Tel: 416.489.4332

Fax: 905.342.9092

Email:leslie.h.macleod@gmail.com 

Leslie H. Macleod & Associates

Specialists in Conflict Resolution