Moty Cristal
Political and crisis negotiation. Complex crisis management. Cyber crime, ransomware and extortion negotiations. Influencing decisions under pressure. Navigating competing interests; including his current work on the narratives surrounding AI data centres.
Moty Cristal is a Professional Negotiator, with a unique focus on complex negotiations.
From 1994 to 2001, Moty Cristal served in various official capacities in negotiation teams across Jordan and Palestine.
Since 2001, Moty Cristal consults, advises and trains business people, entrepreneurs, CEOs and senior government officials in Europe, Russia, US and Asia in analysing, planning and designing complex negotiation processes. He has been working intensively in the energy, construction, financial, technological, pharmaceutical, industrial, transportation and aeronautical sectors. His roles vary across deal-making negotiations, including start-ups investment and marketing processes, cross-cultural business disputes, union-management conflicts, post-merger integration, to business and national crisis management, including cyber crime and ransomware negotiation situations.
Yaron Finkelstein
Political strategist and advisor. Former Principal Private Secretary to the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. Campaign strategy. Political communication. Shaping public perception.
Yaron is one of Australia's most experienced political strategists. He served as Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Scott Morrison — the most senior political adviser role in the country — and before that as Chief Executive Officer of Crosby|Textor, a leading global political consultancy.
He has advised at the highest levels of government and corporate life, with deep expertise in strategic communications, political risk, stakeholder engagement and crisis management. He brings particular insight into how government actually makes decisions — and how to influence those decisions.
Yaron Finkelstein is a regular contributor and political commentator on current events for media outlets such as The Australian, SkyNews Australia and News24 Australia.
Phil O’Reilly
New Zealand business and policy influence. Operating at the intersection of government and enterprise, drawing on his former roles as Chair of the Board of Business at the OECD, Governing Body member of the ILO, and CEO of BusinessNZ.
Phil O'Reilly ONZM is Managing Director of Iron Duke Partners, a Wellington, New Zealand based Public Policy Advisory Firm.
He currently chairs Business at OECDs Southeast Asian Contact Group which is concerned with accession to the OECD by Southeast Asian states and is a member of the OECD Trade Committee. He has long involvement in the B20 advising G20 leaders.
He has acted in both a governance and advisory capacity to the New Zealand government as well as overseas organisations in areas as diverse as trade, sustainability, diversity, pay equity, manufacturing, child poverty, welfare reform, R&D, innovation, tertiary education, retirement and the future of work.
He is a member of the Board of Aurecon Ltd.
Noa Sheer
Noa Sheer, Principal of Sheer Negotiations, scholar-practitioner in the art of negotiation and influence, bringing research-based insights from negotiation science and psychology, combined with real-world advisory experience to senior leaders in complex, high-stakes environments to deliver impactful revenue and culture shifts into their organisations.
Noa is the co-author of the book Effective Negotiation: From Research to Results (4th ed.), published by Cambridge University Press and is a lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand; The University of New South Wales, Australia; and the adjunct faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management; teaching Masters, MBA and Executive Education courses in negotiation. Noa's MPhil and PhD in Organisational Behaviour looks at the benefits of planning for negotiation performance.
Noa founded Sheer Negotiations in 2015 with the aim of bringing insights from the most compelling and recent research to practitioners across the public and private sector, through consulting, coaching and training. Throughout her work, Noa remains committed to empathy, ethics, long-term value, and loyal relationships – principles that underpin Sheer Negotiations.
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