Managing Director

Max is the Founder and Managing Director of Mindful Negotiating, an expanding group of next-generation scholar-practitioners who partner with industry leaders to channel conflict into organizational growth.

Prior to founding Mindful Negotiating, Max advised and trained Fortune 100 Executives, Business Development Teams, and US Special Forces as a Senior Trainer at Vantage Partners. Max has been on the teaching team of Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Winter Negotiation Workshop, the Program on Negotiation’s (PON) Spring Mediation and Conflict Resolution Seminar, Harvard Negotiation Institute’s (HNI) Summer Workshop, and PON’s Executive Education Masterclass. Max has taught Negotiations in the Department of Management and Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, Negotiating Leadership at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Negotiation and Conflict Response in a medium-security prison through Tufts University’s Prison Initiative at Tisch College and

Max served as the Executive Director of In Good Faith, an INGO which translated Elie Wiesel’s Night into Bahasa Indonesia and led interfaith programming amongst universities in the U.S. and Indonesia. Max received a Fulbright Scholarship (‘13) to Central Java and sits on the board of the community-led environmental conservation non-profit, Planet Indonesia.

Max holds a Master’s Degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he studied International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (MALD ‘18). He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in Religious Studies (‘12).