Elizabeth Jardine

Education

Elizabeth Jardine, native of Australia, has advanced degrees in law from Harvard University and the University of Sydney.

Experience

Currently Ms. Jardine resides in Sydney where she works as an independent consultant. Prior to 2004, Ms. Jardine worked for Inter Cultural Management Associates (ICM), an international management consulting firm that helps executive boards, managers and teams bridge cultures and successfully manage change across cultural boundaries. While there, she consulted on projects for clients including Airbus, INSEAD, France Telecom, Dimension Data, EADS Telecom, Electricité de France, and ExxonMobil. She helped clients work more efficiently and effectively across cultures in mergers and acquisitions, remote teams, and international projects. She was the Project Manager for ICM's book on bridging cultures in the corporate environment, published in May 2002.

Before her work at ICM, Ms. Jardine worked full-time at ThoughtBridge, a consulting and training firm. At Thoughtbridge, she helped clients resolve disputes and manage change. Ms. Jardine also trained hundreds of people in negotiation and conflict resolution skills. Her clients included Fortune 500 companies, governmental institutions, and educational bodies.

Ms. Jardine has worked as a corporate lawyer in Sydney. She specialized in a degree on conflict resolution and negotiation at Harvard University. Upon the invitation of faculty, she stayed as a Visiting Scholar to teach, research, and train mediators. She has also served as a mediator in the Boston courts.

Ms. Jardine has been published in a number of academic journals. She has also lectured at Harvard University, H.E.C., the University of Louvain, and the University of Sydney. She regularly makes presentations at corporate conferences. She has lived in Australia, Japan, the United States, England, and France. Ms. Jardine is fluent in French.