Indisputably Podcast Channel – a place for leading advice, insights, and stories from top negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution experts.
The Indisputably Channel is home to three podcasts: Indisputably, How My Friends Negotiate hosted by Professor Andrea Schneider, and Stories Mediators Tell hosted by Professors Lela Love and Robyn Weinstein.
How My Friends Negotiate | Episode 10: Elliott Portnoy
In this episode of How My Friends Negotiate, host Andrea Schneider speaks with Elliott Portnoy, founding Global CEO of Dentons and now Global CEO Emeritus, about the lessons he has learned from decades of negotiating mergers, navigating cross-cultural business relationships and leading one of the world’s largest law firms.
Portnoy reflects on how his approach to negotiation evolved from focusing on preparation and winning every argument to understanding the long-term relationship that follows an agreement. Drawing on previous experiences from countries around the world, he discusses the importance of understanding what motivates the person across the table, why silence can be one of a negotiator’s most effective tools, and why a signed agreement is sometimes only the beginning of a negotiation. “It’s not about the merger,” he explains. “It’s about the marriage that results.”
30 Sept 2026
Stories Mediators Tell | Episode 9: Maurice Q. Robinson '09
In this episode, mediator and Cardozo Mediation Clinic alum Maurice Q. Robinson ’09 tells the story of a workplace mediation that changed the way he thinks about neutrality, reframing, and what it really means to listen. An employee, frustrated by years of feeling unheard and labeled “difficult,” tells Maurice that she doesn't need him to clean up her words, she needs the room to hear them.
As the mediation unfolds, one word in particular changes everything: “dangerous.” Maurice watches as the parties move from defending themselves to actually hearing one another, ultimately creating a “listening agreement” alongside their settlement agreement.
The story raises a deceptively difficult question for mediators: When does reframing help people hear each other, and when does it silence the very truth they need to hear?
23 Sept 2026
How My Friends Negotiate | Episode 9: Daryl Davis
On this episode of How My Friends Negotiate, host Andrea Schneider talks with musician, author, and race reconciliator Daryl Davis, whose remarkable negotiation work has brought him into conversations with Ku Klux Klan members and leaders.
Daryl shares the story of lending his bus to a group of Klansmen, explains how one conversation helped change a Klan leader's beliefs, and reveals why he approaches conflict through curiosity rather than anger, “we” rather than “you,” and “controlled dissonance” rather than forced harmony.
Plus: the best negotiation advice he's ever received? “Stop talking and listen.”
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