Whitney Benns, Consultant

Whitney Benns (she/her/hers) 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 clients across sectors, with an emphasis on supporting educators, school leaders, and social justice advocates, organizers, and their funders. 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 serves as a Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she built the negotiation program with colleagues in 2016. She teaches the Negotiation Workshop, and focuses her research and writing around negotiating power, space, and purpose with/in institutions. Previously she also served as a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School.

Whitney received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.S. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Utah. She was born and raised in a valley within the Rocky Mountains, and now splits her time between St. Louis, Missouri and Cambridge, Massachusetts.