INSTRUCTOR: 

Carol L. Brooks, SR/WA is owner of Cornerstone Management Skills. She is an internationally recognized author and lecturer on conflict management, interpersonally skills and success strategies. She entered the right-of-way profession in 1989.  Her expertise includes easement and land acquisition, negotiations, easement valuation, permitting, easement law, project management, and eminent domain support. Brooks authored four articles on “The Art of Successful Negotiations” for which she was awarded the International Right of Way Association's Mark A. Green Award, 2000. She is a Master Facilitator for the IRWA and has served in leadership for international, regional and local levels of the association. Brooks has received the 1999/2004 Professional of Year, Chapter 11 and 1999 Frank C. Balfour Professional of the Year Finalist. Since 2010, she has authored a column in ROW entitled, “Back to Basics.” And since 2004, a member of the ROW Editorial Board. She graduated from the University of Redlands, receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management with Distinction and a Fellow of the Leadership Society of Alfred North Whitehead Center for Lifelong Learning.

COURSE COORDINATOR:

Danelle MacEwen

City of Olympia Public Works

601 Fourth Avenue East

Olympia, WA 98507-1967

Phone: (360) 753-8211

Fax: (360) 709-2797

Email: dmacewen@ci.olympia.wa.us

CLASS LOCATION:

City of Olympia Public Works

601 Fourth Avenue East

P.O. Box 1967

Olympia, WA 98507-1967

Phone: (360) 753-8211

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Participants are responsible for securing their own hotel accommodations for this class.