Bryant Galindo

Associate consultant

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Overview

Bryant Galindo is a certified mediator, executive coach, and consultant with 10+ years of experience facilitating conflict resolution across diverse settings, including housing, workplace, and business disputes. A bilingual Spanish/English speaker, Bryant has worked with the United Nations, venture-backed startups, and nonprofits, and is passionate about fostering equitable dialogue. He combines emotional intelligence with structured problem-solving to create agreements that are both durable and human-centered. He is also the author of The New Middle: Connecting Heart and Mind to Collaboratively Disagree.

Professional Experience

Bryant Galindo has spent the last decade at the intersection of mediation, executive coaching, and leadership development. He is the founder of CollabsHQ, where he helps startups, nonprofits, and global institutions resolve high-stakes disputes, strengthen communication, and foster healthier organizational cultures. His facilitation style blends emotional intelligence, trauma-informed practice, and practical problem-solving to guide clients from breakdown to breakthrough.

Bryant’s housing mediation experience includes his work with The Mediation Center of the Pacific, where he has mediated over 100 landlord-tenant disputes in a rapid-response format, often with cases scheduled 24 hours to two weeks in advance. These matters have involved rent repayment, lease violations, communication breakdowns, and negotiated move-outs. Across all cases, he brings structure, empathy, and cross-cultural fluency to guide parties toward resolution.

Beyond housing, Bryant serves as a contract mediator with the United Nations Development Programme, facilitating workplace disputes across international teams as part of its Global Mediation Panel. His broader conflict resolution work also includes employment and partnership disputes, organizational dysfunction, and major co-founder breakdowns.

He has led leadership development programs for USAID-funded initiatives in El Salvador, helped launch enterprise-wide learning systems at MUFG/Union Bank, and coached startup founders and executives navigating interpersonal and strategic business challenges. His engagements often blend individual and team coaching, mediation, and skills-based training to build alignment and resilience across teams.
Bryant is bilingual in English and Spanish and holds a Master’s degree in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University. He also holds certifications as an Executive Coach and Career Coach through the Center for Executive Coaching (ICF-accredited), and a Basic Mediation Certificate from Columbia Law School. He is the author of The New Middle: Connecting Heart and Mind to Collaboratively Disagree, a guide for transforming conflict into dialogue – a philosophy that underpins all his work across settings.

Focuses & Specializations

Landlord-Tenant Mediation

Spanish-English Bilingual Mediation

Workplace & Organizational Conflict

Business & Partnership Disputes

Trauma-Informed Facilitation

Rapid-Response & Court-Connected Mediation

Cross-Cultural Communication

Executive Coaching

Leadership Development

Conflict Resolution Training

Credentials

Basic Mediation Certification, Columbia Law School

Certified Executive Coach, Center for Executive Coaching (ICF-Acccredited) 

Certified Career Coach, Center for Executive Coaching (ICF-Acccredited)

M.S., Negotiation & Conflict Resolution, Columbia University

B.A., Political Science & International Studies, Pepperdine University

Author, The New Middle: Connecting Heart and Mind to Collaboratively Disagree

Affiliations

Mediator

United Nations Development Programme – Global Mediation Panel

Mediator

The Mediation Center of the Pacific, Inc.

Founder

CollabsHQ

Former Consultant

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

Former Pro Bono Mediator

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)