Scott Deyo

Scott has nearly three decades of experience in academia, nonprofit, and federal sectors as an ombuds, mediator, and trainer. He is an expert at helping organizations build and sustain community-centered cultures that focus on people, their interconnected journey together, and their ability to accomplish great things through collaboration and dialogue. For a decade, Scott was a certified mediator and mentor through the Virginia Supreme Court, and he has retained his Certified Organizational Ombuds Practitioner (CO-OP)® credential since March 2010. Scott has mediated more than 250 employment-related disputes, and has been an ombuds in six organizations, where he 4,500 people explore resolution options for 18,000 workplace issues. Within academia, Scott’s interventions helped enable productive dialogue and problem-solving on complex issues, including academic freedom, curriculum change processes, lab operations, faculty workloads, authorship, and other unique challenges faced by staff and senior administrators. Scott has a master’s degree from George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (2001) and a bachelor’s in psychology (major) and music (minor) from James Madison University (1997).