Dr. Beth Fisher-Yoshida
ACADEMIC DIRECTOR, WIN SUMMIT + VICE CHAIR OF THE FACULTY OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES + ACADEMIC DIRECTOR OF THE NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROGRAM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Beth Fisher-Yoshida is the Vice Chair of the Faculty of Professional Studies and the Academic Director of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program. Dr. Fisher-Yoshida teaches classes in negotiation, conflict resolution, and conflict analysis. She is Co-Executive Director of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) and Director of the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) program, both housed in the Earth Institute at Columbia University. In her role at YPS she has been working to develop systemic approaches to building more effective communities through youth leadership in Medellín, Colombia, using a Social Lab approach. Dr. Fisher-Yoshida partners with clients to develop customized interventions aimed at improving organizational performance. She is able to blend the best of both worlds: the knowledge from academia with effective practices to apply successfully to real life situations. Her firm, Fisher Yoshida International, focuses on leading organizations through change by improving communication and creating shared goals and practices to align with the organization’s mission and vision.
She received her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems and M.A. in Organization Development from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. She received her M.A., with honors, from Teachers College, Columbia University. She received both a B.A. and a B.S. from Buffalo State College. Dr. Fisher-Yoshida is also a Certified Clinical Sociologist (CCS).
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