About Our Members.
David Seibel
As Co-Founder and President of Insight Partners and Insight Collaborative, David Seibel uses his broad base of expertise to help individuals and organizations articulate their key interests and find creative options to meet them. He is a trainer, high stakes coach, conflict management consultant, mediator and professor in the fields of effective negotiation, communication, strategic relationship management and mediation.
David is associate faculty at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, and formerly at Georgetown University Law School. He has mediated a very wide range of disputes and specializes in family and corporate contexts. He advises organizations and individuals on negotiation, effective communication, strategic relationship management, and leadership. He has taught related courses to corporate and non-profit clients all over the world, including negotiation skills workshops for members of the newly formed Iraqi Parliament. His consulting practice includes advising the first Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, facilitating strategic planning sessions for senior executive teams, and coaching individuals through complex professional and personal conversations.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in world literature from Middlebury College, Mr. Seibel studied Mandarin Chinese, law and mediation in the People’s Republic of China. He obtained his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he served as President of the Harvard Mediation Program, and later as Sacks Fellow at the Wilmer Hale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. His Fellowship compared the advocacy, negotiation and mediation of family matters. As an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, Mr. Seibel practiced trusts and estates, and corporate law. Mr. Seibel left practicing law and established Insight Partners and Insight Collaborative to maximize his ability to help others around the world create value while improving the relationships that matter most to them.
Mónica Guzmán
Mónica Guzmán author of "I Never Thought of it That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times"; founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity; Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels; and host of A Braver Way podcast. Mónica received an honorary doctorate degree from Wheaton College, and completed study and research fellowships at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, and the University of Florida. A Mexican immigrant, Latina, and dual US/Mexico citizen, she lives in Seattle with her husband and two kids and is the proud liberal daughter of conservative parents. Read more about her and her work at moniguzman.com.
Ned Hall
Edward J. Hall is an American philosopher and Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of science and epistemology. Hall graduated from Reed College in 1987, and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton University in 1996. He taught at MIT until 2005, when he moved to Harvard. He firmly believes that philosophical discourse always goes better if the parties involved resolutely avoid any “burden-shifting” maneuvers, and that teaching always goes better if you bring cookies.
David Hamburger
David Hamburger is executive director of Persuasion, a nonprofit publication and community dedicated to defending the principles of liberal democracy at home and abroad. In addition to IME, he serves on the national board of the Princeton Prize in Race Relations. David is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and Leiden universities and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Angela Orlando
Angela Orlando is a Managing Director at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Her work in Advancement specializes in strategic fundraising, major gift work and volunteer management. Angela has served as a Board member and Chair of Development at both Crossroads Academy in Lyme, NH and The Family Place in Norwich, VT. In her spare time Angela enjoys spending time with her family, taking her dogs for walks and riding her horse, Dolly.