Brooke Clayton is a negotiation and strategic relationship management consultant and trainer. In the corporate sector, Ms. Clayton has advised corporate clients throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas, as well as non-profit clients in Latin America and West Africa. Her clients include top-tier organizations in the investment and capital management, private wealth, insurance, legal, IT, and pharmaceutical industries. In the academic realm, Ms. Clayton is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and on the faculty of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She has also taught at the Program of Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard Law School, as well as law and graduate courses at the University of Massachusetts – Boston and Harvard Law School, including the Negotiation Workshop, the Radcliffe College Seminar and Negotiation: Dealing With Emotions. She is the co-editor of New Directions for Youth Development: Negotiation (Jossey Bass 2004), an interdisciplinary academic journal showcasing conflict management interventions for youth in high-conflict regions.
Ms. Clayton holds a B.A. magna cum laude in English from Brigham Young University, where she taught seminars in Logic and Rhetoric, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. A native of California, Ms. Clayton has lived in Argentina, Japan, and the Canary Islands. She is fluent in Spanish.