Doug Noll - How to Be a Peacemaker, Stop Arguments, Calm Anger and Develop Emotional Intelligence

Douglas E. Noll, JD, MA is an award winning author, speaker and trainer. After 22 years as a trial lawyer, Mr. Noll left his practice to become a peacemaker and mediator. Today he helps people solve conflicts and teaches others. Mr. Noll is an adjunct professor of law at the Pepperdine School of Law Straus Institute where he teaches Decision Making Under Uncertainty Conflict. Mr. Noll is the co-founder of the award-winning Prison of Peace Project, in which he teaches murderers in maximum security prisons how to mediate conflict. Mr. Noll has trained mediators and leaders in Europe, the Middle East and Asia in his peacemaking process. He has personally mediated over 1,500 disputes, including sexual abuse cases in the Catholic Church and criminal victim-offender cases. He has written four books, his latest entitled "De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less." He has developed online video courses in legal negotiation and emotional de-escalation and has conducted dozens of webinars. His video offerings on YouTube have garnered over 87,000 views. Mr. Noll comes on the podcast to discuss his peacekeeping methods, working with prisoners, his mediation practice and raising kids to be emotionally intelligence.