“The Negotiation Lab courses offer an ideal blend of academic material and practical opportunities to try out negotiating techniques in a safe environment. Samuel Passow uses his considerable experience to great effect in guiding the course attendees through increasingly complex negotiating scenarios so that they learn quickly how the different elements of negotiating theory fit together in real-life situations. The techniques that Samuel Passow teaches at the Negotiation Lab are wide-ranging and applicable to a broad range of personal, political, and business situations. However, I would specifically recommend these courses to anyone planning to negotiate in a commercial environment.”

Greg Jones - Operations Manager: Europe & Africa, Baker Hughes, Madrid

“Samuel Passow organized a truly outstanding tailor-made negotiation & mediation course. It built on my own experience of international mediation and negotiations in the Armed Forces and enabled me to understand how the art of negotiation can be applied to the corporate environment. In so doing, he helped me to make the transition from government service to the commercial world. Mr. Passow brings the theory and practice of negotiation alive through anecdotes, examples and role-play exercises. The Corporate Diplomacy course is a convincing, insightful, valuable and hugely enjoyable experience. I strongly recommend it.”

“I have attended and participated in a lot of Negotiating skills programs before. The one run by Prof. Passow is a gem of a program. This is a program that has revamped and rekindled my negotiating lifestyle. I will forever cherish more developmental programs of such quality. Ok Zimbabwe has benefited immensely from this program”.

“I attended the Negotiation Lab courses as we are about to launch into a process of negotiation and mediation work between the black and white farming communities in Zimbabwe. The tensions are likely to be high in an environment where feelings of injustice on both sides are very strong.

I cannot recommend the work of Samuel Passow and the Negotiation Lab highly enough. A gifted teacher, he not only has the ability to communicate the process so well, it is greatly enhanced by his own real experience as a world class negotiator. The role playing exercises were excellent, throwing us into many and varying scenarios, which fully tested our skills and capabilities. There was never a dull moment in the course”

James Maberly - Chairman of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Welfare Trust

"This is a fantastic simulation run by Samuel Passow and you will enjoy the day"

“Mr. Passow is a well-regarded academic with great experience in conflict management.”

Dr. Klaus Schwab - Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

“Samuel Passow was my student at Harvard. He is highly expert and knowledgeable in the field of conflict management and dispute resolution and has worked with a wide range of countries and private companies facing difficulties or sometimes dangerous situations.”

Baroness Shirley Williams - Member of the House of Lords, former Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party in the Upper House of Parliament, Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

“Mr. Passow has a very deep understanding of the emerging issues facing managers operating in a global context. He is capable of taking very complex topics and distilling them down to the essential elements required for informed decision making.” 

Dr. Michael D. Watkins - Founder and Chairman of Genesis Advisers, Former Professor at Harvard Business School & the Harvard Kennedy School of Government