Whitney Benns

Whitney is a consultant with Triad Consulting Group, who works with individuals and organizations to build communication and relationship capacity in negotiation, feedback, and conflict management. She works with a range of clients: nonprofit, for profit, and government, with an emphasis on work with education and social justice organizations. In her work as a consultant, facilitator, and educator, she is committed to working to bring the potentialities of generative conflict and honest communication to relationships, teams, organizations, and communities. Whitney also serves as a Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she teaches the negotiation workshop and fugitive negotiation.

Previously, Whitney has served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. She has addressed and coached students and alumni at Harvard Law School, Tuck School of Business, Tufts Gordon Institute on Leadership, MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University.

She has written articles for The Atlantic Magazine, The Guardian, and OnLabor.org. Her work is included in Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, 4e (edited by Maurianne Adams, et all. 2018), and in the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal Volume 35, 2019. Most recently, she was interviewed about her work in ABA Magazine Section on Dispute Resolution’s issue Reckoning with Race and Racism.

Whitney earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is a retired member of the Massachusetts Bar. Between college and law school, Whitney worked as an intern at Comedy Central’s satirical news show, The Colbert Report.