Jim Reiman has spent more than three decades operating at the intersection of business, law, and dispute resolution, a combination that makes him singularly qualified to write about negotiation.

He began his career as a commercial litigator in Chicago, practicing for nineteen years before transitioning to business leadership. As CEO and Chairman, he took a failing chain of 30 cell phone stores in Shanghai, grew it to over 300 locations, and led it through an IPO on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market. By 2012, revenue had climbed from $2.25 million to more than $250 million.

Today, Reiman serves as an arbitrator and mediator of complex domestic and international commercial disputes. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association’s invitation-only Master Mediation Panel, comprising the top mediators as rated by counsel, and serves on panels for the ICDR, CPR, SIAC, and CIArb.

He teaches negotiation to senior executives, government officials, and professionals through the Oxford Programme on Negotiation at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. He also trains and qualifies senior attorneys in international arbitration for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Beyond his professional work, Reiman holds 19 domestic and international patents as co-inventor, evidence that his approach to problem-solving is practical, not theoretical.

Negotiation Simplified is the codification of everything he has learned across three decades and four continents.