Sam Straus

Sam Straus is a Senior Consultant with Triad Consulting Group. He supports organizations seeking to improve communication, build more accountable relationships, and navigate conflict effectively. He specializes in helping intact teams navigate complex group dynamics and coaching leaders driving organizational change. Sam has supported organizations through training, coaching, mediation, and consulting across industries, including financial services, healthcare, law, technology, education, and philanthropy.

Sam also serves as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he teaches courses on negotiation, conflict, and power. He is on faculty for the Harvard Program on Negotiation, where he leads the Difficult Conversations course for international cohorts of cross-sector professionals.

Previously, Sam served as the Associate Director of the Northeastern University Center for the Study of Sport in Society, where he facilitated gender-based violence prevention education in schools, universities, and community organizations. Sam has also taught Negotiation and Leadership as a Lecturer at Tufts Gordon Institute and Bay Path University and served as a Fellow for the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program where he created dialogue and facilitation programs.

Sam earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and B.S. in Management Science, magna cum laude, from the University of California San Diego.

Sam is originally from Santa Cruz, California, and has called the West Coast, Northeast, and Midwest home. Across geographies, you can find Sam practicing humility at a local basketball court.