About Zena Zumeta

Internationally known as both a mediator and trainer of mediators, Zena D. Zumeta is president of the Mediation Training & Consultation Institute and The Collaborative Workplace in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. Ms. Zumeta is a former board member and president of the Academy of Family Mediators (now merged into the Association for Conflict Resolution), past president of the Michigan Council for Family and Divorce Mediation, past Regional Vice President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution and former member of the Editorial Board of the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Magazine.  Ms. Zumeta has extensive experience as a trainer, mediator, facilitator and consultant. She has been providing mediation services since 1981.

She is an approved civil and family mediator in Michigan, and an approved mediation trainer for Michigan and many other states. She has taught at Hamline University School of Law and is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, University of Detroit Mercy Law School, and Cooley Law School.
 

Ms. Zumeta is the recipient of the Family Mediation Council-Michigan Lifetime Achievement in Mediation Award; the National Education Association/Saturn Corporation Award for Union-Management Collaboration; the John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution; the Distinguished Mediator and George N. Bashara Jr. Awards from the ADR Section of the State Bar of Michigan; and the Kumba Award from the National Conference on Minorities in ADR.