Owner of Mediation Training & Consultation Institute
Owner of Zena Zumeta Mediation Services
President of The Collaborative Workplace
Past
Providing mediation services since 1981
Education
JD from University of Michigan
About Mediation Training & Consultation Institute
Mediation Training and Consultation Institute offers a range of mediation training opportunities to suit your needs and help you fulfill state requirements in multiple states. Basic and advanced programs are given onsite throughout the country for sponsoring groups and organizations.
In addition, we offer regular 40-hour public trainings in divorce and custody mediation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois. This basic training has been approved in a number of states.
Internationally known as both a mediator and trainer of mediators, Zena D. Zumeta is president of the Mediation Training & Consultation Institute, Zena Zumeta Mediation Services, and The Collaborative Workplace in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. Ms. Zumeta is a former board member and president of the Academy of Family Mediators (now merged into the Association for Conflict Resolution), past president of the Michigan Council for Family and Divorce Mediation, and past Regional Vice President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. She is also a former member of the Advisory Council for the Family Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and ACR′s Membership and Governance Committees.
Ms. Zumeta has extensive experience as a trainer, mediator, facilitator and consultant. She has been providing mediation services since 1981.
She is an approved civil and family mediator in Michigan, and an approved mediation trainer for Michigan and many other states.
Ms. Zumeta is the recipient of the the Family Mediation Council-Michigan Liftetime Achievement in Mediation Award; the National Education Association/Saturn Corporation Award for Union-Management Collaboration; the John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award from ACR; and the Kumba Award from the National Conference on Minorities in ADR.
Experience
Zena Zumeta Mediation Services
Owner
Zena offers a range of mediation services for families, businesses and others, including divorce and custody, post divorce adjustments, contracts, business dissolution and creation, civil and employment mediation.
The Collaborative Workplace
President
The Collaborative Workplace helps individuals, teams, departments and organizations work together effectively by providing tools, training, facilitation and support for effective dispute resolution and collaborative decision-making. We provide the following services to our clients: