John Good

John Good has worked as a neutral in the area of labor-management relations for more than 25 years and has pioneered the application of “Interest-Based Negotiating" techniques to US labor-management relations. He has worked with a wide variety of large organizations, public and private, on managing and promoting positive working relationships and implementing innovative cooperative efforts.
 
Prior to joining RAI, Mr. Good served as Associate Director of the Philadelphia Area Labor-Management Committee and worked for the AFL-CIO Work in America Institute in Washington, D.C.   He formerly served on the Labor Panel of the American Arbitration Association, and remains Arbitrator, Mediator and Fact Finder for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Mediation.  With a grant from the German Marshal Fund to study labor relations in Europe, Mr. Good conducted research on innovative practices, cooperative efforts and labor management works councils.
 
As a Principal Consultant and Senior Associate for Search for Common Ground, a global non-profit organization, Mr. Good consulted with and trained diplomats, government officials, and mediators in Russia, Ukraine, Morocco and the U.S. From 2001 to 2006, he facilitated a successful multi-lateral process of regional cooperation between Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian government officials on chemical and biological threats. In June and December, 2005, he facilitated the process by which the parties agreed to monitor avian and pandemic influenza and establish the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance, a multi-lateral governmental effort to limit disease outbreaks. In Morocco, Mr. Good trained and consulted with mediators, leaders of business, labor and government, judges and law professors. He has also facilitated dialogues over ethnic disputes in Crimea and for three years trained diplomats in conflict resolution at the Ukrainian Diplomatic Academy in Kiev. With Search for Common Ground, Mr. Good facilitated “The Working Group on Ex-Offender Re-Entry,” a successful effort to gain a broad-based consensus on how to address the problem of people leaving jail or prison and returning to communities across America.  
 
Mr. Good received a B.A. in history from the University of Maryland and pursued graduate studies in Political Science at George Washington University.