Tracey manages her own HR Consultancy based in Glasgow, where her mission is to help people create positive change. Her ethos is to support busy people thrive professionally in their careers or business ownership journeys. Tracey is an established Non-Exec Board Director with 7 years’ experience gained on a Financial Board. Appointed in 2024 as the Board Chair of Scottish Mediation, Tracey’s vision is to ensure the Board supports the organisation to continue to develop and grow mediation across Scotland within appropriate networks, business connections and communities.
Fiona is a Partner in Gillespie Macandrew’s Dispute Resolution team. She covers a broad range of civil litigation but has particular expertise in employment and property disputes. Fiona is a strong proponent of alternative dispute resolution methods including specifically mediation. She has been co-chair of the Young Mediators’ Group since November 2013 and regularly delivers CPD on ADR and mediation in her firm. Fiona joined the SM Board in December 2017.
Liz Leonard has over 30 years’ experience in communications and broadcast media, including at
the BBC where she was an executive producer. In 2009, she left the BBC to set up her own media consultancy, during which time she also served as both member & then chair of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Scotland, the latter at a time when digital convergence required significant changes to broadcasting policy and regulation.
Throughout her career, Liz has been a passionate advocate of justice & human rights & was previously vice chair & trustee at the Scottish Refugee Council between 2012 – 2019. Liz officially retired from her communications consultancy in 2022 but remains a non-executive director on the Board of Crown Estate Scotland.
In these days of increased global & societal crises, Liz believes effective mediation is a vital tool in “turning disagreement into opportunity” both across Scotland and beyond.
Individuals, organisations, communities and society are just scratching the surface of the potential mediation, and the skills of mediation can deliver in terms of driving down costs, increasing wellbeing and driving innovation. As the Head of Marketing at Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) and CEDR-Accredited Mediator, I am passionate about actualising these benefits across different sectors and professions.
As a Trustee for Scottish Mediation, I am looking to learn from and contribute to the development of the mediation in Scotland and deliver on a strategy to bring better conflict engagement and resolution to more across the country. 
Laura Allison, has a robust background in quality improvement and a deep commitment to mediation. She currently serves as Associate Director for Corporate and Quality Improvement at NHS Education for Scotland. Her extensive experience has included roles at the Scottish Government and NHS Tayside, focusing on embedding improvement methodologies and delivering training.
As a mentor with ACOSVO, she leverages her vast network and expertise to promote mediation within the health and care sectors. She is passionate about conflict resolution, and seeks opportunities to raise awareness, build and integrate mediation as a standard practice to address complex conflicts and foster positive outcomes across public sector.
Ralph completed a course in civil and commercial mediation with CEDR in 2014. Practiced at Calm Mediation delivering neighbourhood , commercial, workplace and community mediations. Became a trustee at Calm and just retired after 6 years’ service. Highlight was supporting their merger with another mediation body. He has trained in SEN mediations and carried out circa 250 cases for Prime Resolution. He has supported Prime with training and mentoring.
Ralph recently completed Foundation level at Restorative Justice and recently completed qualification in Family Mediation.
Ralph plans to bring this experience of mediation across sectors to the Board.
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Githa’s early career was in legal practice, with an LLM from University of Cambridge. For the last 20 years she has worked primarily with ethnic minority communities and vulnerable groups in Scotland, delivering services that increase capacity for positive relationships and conflict handling skills.
Githa also completed a PhD in the field of conflict resolution, at the Richardson Institute, Lancaster University. She is passionate about improving access to mediation and mediation skills to hard-to-reach and vulnerable community groups.
Originally a commercial planning lawyer, Tamsin Bailey moved to Brussels in the mid 1990s to focus on environmental policy and public affairs. A central part of her work in various roles in Brussels, London, Edinburgh and now Orkney has been developing partnerships with government and non-governmental organisations, charities and other stakeholders.
Tamsin became an independent consultant based in Orkney in 2007, specialising in project development and evaluation, and in July 2020 took up her current role as Service Director at Relationships Scotland Orkney, where she also practices as a registered family mediator and workplace mediator.
Tamsin has a long-standing interest in alternative dispute resolution. In a world where both public and private discourse is increasingly polarised, Tamsin is committed to developing and promoting mediation approaches to resolving conflict across Scottish society.
Hanna Dushkova is a lawyer and accredited mediator in Ukraine and Scotland with an extensive background in workplace, commercial, school and family mediation.
She is certified as a mediator by DeutscheAnwaltAkademie (DAA), Mediator Gmbh (Germany) and as a family mediator by the League of Mediators of Ukraine and Mediation School (Ukraine, Kyiv).
Hanna has led a mediation hub in a Ukrainian school in Odesa.
From 2018 she has had successful experience in helping people, communities, workplaces and organisations resolve different types of conflicts peacefully. Now she works all over the world online and offline.
Since 2020 she has excelled as a trainer in conflict resolution, mediation skills, and emotional intelligence, and works within the public and private sectors, charities and voluntary organisations. Hanna provides training, seminars, and workshops for individuals, workplaces, communities and youth.
Since July 2022 she has volunteered and participated in the 1-year Program “Family Mediation in the Time of War”.
In 2022 Hanna co-founded the Ukrainians Together project and social enterprise Bring Together.
Hanna has been a Board member of the Scottish Mediation since 2023.
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