{"id":7973,"date":"2026-07-08T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/?page_id=7973"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:11:37","slug":"betsy-bemiller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/coaching-and-organizational-consulting\/meet-the-consultants\/betsy-bemiller\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy BeMiller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Workplace Resolutions, LLC<\/strong><\/p>\n

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT<\/h2>\n

\"ConsultantI established Workplace Resolutions, LLC nearly 30 years ago to bring my knowledge, skills, expertise, ability, experience and heart in support of healthy, effective working relationships and cultures. I live this philosophy in my personal life, my service to communities and my professional work with organizations.<\/p>\n

AREAS OF EXPERTISE\/RESULTS<\/h2>\n
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  • Facilitator:<\/strong> dialogues in support of healthy, effective working relationships and team strengthening \u2013 including working with race, culture, gender and power imbalances<\/li>\n
  • Trainer<\/strong> (virtual & in-person): Conflict Resolution Skills; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Workplace Discrimination\/Harassment; Preventing Workplace Violence; Crucial Conversations; Crucial Accountability; Influencer<\/li>\n
  • Coach:<\/strong> Leadership Development; Communication advancement; Conflict Resolution<\/li>\n
  • Culture Intercessor<\/strong>: assess, design and\/or facilitate processes to address complex relationship challenges and barriers to effective administration of work<\/li>\n
  • Mediator:<\/strong> expert listener- active listening; assessing positions, interests, issues and relationships; designing conversations in support of increased understanding and building effective, sustained resolutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    EXPERIENCE \/ SELECTED PROJECTS<\/h2>\n

    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion<\/strong>: training (designer, developer, deliverer), facilitating “courageous” conversations, assessing workplace cultures, consulting on workplace relationships<\/p>\n

    Mediating resolution<\/strong> of informal and formal complaints on discrimination, harassment, hostile work environment, sexually charged environments; post-complaint restoration of professional relationships<\/p>\n

    Assisting leadership and staff address issues and restore<\/strong> and strengthen professional relationships via holding specialized interviews, developing shared ownership and responsibility, and creating agreements toward healthy, safe, effective cultures and processes<\/p>\n

    Designing and facilitating Core Values processes<\/strong> involving whole systems (organizations, divisions, departments, units) by organically exploring and collaboratively identifying core values that provide strong foundations for effective, professional interactions and practices.<\/p>\n

    Coaching professionals<\/strong> whose communication and\/or leadership styles would benefit from safe, effective processes to explore goals, understand one’s own and others’ perceptions, and develop skills and strategies to strengthen professional and personal relationships.<\/p>\n

    CREDENTIALS<\/h2>\n
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    • Graduate of University of Iowa with a degree in Business Administration, with emphases in Labor Relations <\/em>and Human Resources Management<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Nearly a thousand hours of post-graduate specialized trainings in leadership, management, supervision, mediation, facilitation, coaching, communication<\/li>\n
    • Certified Mediator<\/li>\n
    • Certified trainer (virtual, in-classroom) for VitalSmarts\u2122, which empowers me to deliver its Crucial Conversations<\/em><\/strong>\u00ae, Crucial Accountability<\/em><\/strong>\u00ae and Influencer<\/em><\/strong>\u00ae trainings<\/li>\n
    • Certified trainer for The Ken Blanchard Companies’ Situational Leadership<\/strong>\u00aeII<\/strong>, Situational Self Leadership<\/strong>\u00ae, Gung Ho!<\/strong> \u00ae (employee commitment), Raving Fans<\/strong>\u00ae (customer\/ client satisfaction), DISCovering Self and Others<\/strong>\u00ae (understanding work styles) and High Performing Teams<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      SELECTED CLIENTS<\/h2>\n
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      • Universities, Community Colleges, K-12 (Univ. of Washington; Community Colleges, Technical Colleges; Univ. of Puget Sound, The Evergreen State College)<\/li>\n
      • Governmental Agencies (cities, counties, special districts, state, federal); State of Washington: Ecology, Military Department, Enterprise Services, Transportation, Fish & Wildlife, Natural Resources, Agriculture)<\/li>\n
      • Honda USA; multiple medical practices; multiple small manufacturing companies<\/li>\n
      • Volunteer (King County Dispute Resolution Center, King County Interlocal Dispute Resolution Program)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Workplace Resolutions, LLC PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT I established Workplace Resolutions, LLC nearly 30 years ago to bring my knowledge, skills, expertise, ability, experience and heart in support of healthy, effective working relationships and cultures. I live this philosophy in my personal life, my service to communities and my professional work with organizations. AREAS OF EXPERTISE\/RESULTS Facilitator: dialogues in support of healthy, effective working relationships and team strengthening \u2013 including working with race, culture, gender and power imbalances Trainer (virtual & in-person):…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":1047,"parent":571,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-7973","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7974,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7973\/revisions\/7974"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/pod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}