The Nuts and Bolts of Negotiating with Emotional Intelligence with Ronda Muir

Our special guest this week, Ronda Muir, Lawyer, Mediator, Management Consultant and Author will Present on: The Nuts and Bolts of Negotiating with Emotional Intelligence

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Negotiation isn’t just about having the sharpest facts or the strongest demand; it’s about connecting — with clarity, courage, and compassion. In The Nuts and Bolts of Negotiating with Emotional Intelligence, Ronda Muir walks you through the framework for negotiating from the inside out — blending legal strategy with emotional insight so you can reach agreements that are strong, sustainable, and satisfying for all parties.

Imagine negotiation as constructing a finely tuned machine: every bolt, hinge, and gear must align. If one piece is loose — a misunderstood emotion, a suppressed concern, an unchecked bias — the whole mechanism can grind or fail. This session gives you the wrench and the blueprint to tighten all those parts so your negotiation engine runs smoothly.

Our presenter:

Ronda Muir, founder and principal of Law People Management LLC, is a leading authority on lawyer personalities and the application of behavioral science to the practice of law. Ronda draws from years of experience as a lawyer in New York Big Law, as inside counsel for a privately held conglomerate in Paris, France, and as Vice President of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. She offers individual practitioners and workplace managers business-savvy, psychologically sophisticated and real-world solutions to both traditional and emerging challenges unique to the legal industry and its professionals. She specializes in getting lawyers invested in their careers, motivated, productive, profitable, and leading effectively.


Nationally recognized for her early identification of critical industry trends, she is a frequent speaker, an award-winning author and publishes www.LawPeopleBlog.com, a valuable resource for the legal community. Muir’s best-selling book Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence, published by the American Bar Association, is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, using and raising emotional intelligence in the unique context of the practice of law. The recently released second edition reflects breaking research addressing, among other issues, increased disengagement, fallout from the Covid pandemic, the challenges of AI, and the advantages that emotional intelligence brings to 21st-century lawyers and legal workplaces.