Bryant Galindo

Founder | Mediator, Executive Coach, Consultant @ CollabsHQ

About

CollabsHQ helps business leaders and teams navigate complex challenges with confidence 🤝 I work with startup founders, executives, and business teams to resolve high-stakes business disputes and grow their leadership skills. Whether through mediation, executive coaching, or custom workshops, my goal is to help clients lead with clarity, connection, and confidence. What I specialize in: 🟡 Equity Restructuring Deals 🔵 Partnership Dissolutions 🟡 Interpersonal Disputes 🔵 Leadership Communication 🟡 Team Dynamics & Culture 🔵 Conflict Resolution As a certified mediator and executive coach, I guide confidential, structured conversations around big business decisions while supporting founders and executives in scaling their communication, decision-making, and collaboration skills. I am also skilled at mediating and coaching in Spanish. In 2022, I published The New Middle, which quickly became the #1 new release in Amazon’s Business Conflict Resolution and Mediation category 📘. The book shares my story and outlines a heart-mind approach to navigating disagreement with intention and emotional intelligence. Available on Amazon → https://amzn.to/3FvQoXi 🔹 Want to learn more about collaborative disagreement, conflict resolution, communication, and negotiation? Follow me or visit → www.collabshq.com

Country

United States

City

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Industry

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Skill

Mediation, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, Spanish, Leadership, Salary Negotiations, Crucial Conversations, Conflict Management, Public Speaking, Facilitations, Legal Writing, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Intercultural Awareness, Legal Research, Translation, Dispute Resolution, Microsoft Office, Civil Procedure, Training, E-Learning

Experience

Founder | Mediator, Executive Coach, Consultant

CollabsHQ

2016-3 - Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

I work with startup founders, executives, and business teams to facilitate the resolution of important business disputes and to help them become the best leaders they can be. I also offer trainings and workshops. Areas I specialize in: 🟡 Equity Restructuring Deals 🔵 Partnership Dissolutions + Buyouts 🟡 Resolving Interpersonal Disputes 🔵 Leadership Communication 🟡 Team Dynamics/Culture 🔵 Conflict Resolution Mediation is a low-cost, confidential process with a big potential reward that is structured + also tailored to your situation ➡️ https://www.collabshq.com/mediation 70% of people who receive coaching benefit from improved work performance, influence, and more effective communication skills (Source: International Coaching Federation). Through my executive coaching services, I partner with executives to help them unlock their highest leadership potential ➡️ https://www.collabshq.com/coaching I also offer workshops and trainings, learn more about them in the attached deck below ⬇️

Mediator

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

2025-3 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

New York City Metropolitan Area

As part of the Global Mediation Panel, I am a contract, on-call mediator that handles workplace complaints as part of UNDP's Ombudsman Office. I facilitate mediations in both Spanish and English.

Author

The New Middle

2022-6 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Greater Los Angeles Area

Published by New Degree Press, “The New Middle: Connecting Heart and Mind to Collaboratively Disagree” was the #1 New Release in the Business Conflict Resolution and Mediation category on Amazon. Following my journey, it teaches you how to activate the heart-mind connection in a disagreement so everyone involved tackles the problem together, collaboratively. Join The New Middle newsletter to get excerpts ➡️ https://bit.ly/thenewmiddlenewsletter

Executive Coach & Consultant

The Kaizen Company

2023-3 - 2023-8 · 6 mos

San Salvador, El Salvador

I worked as part of a USAID-funded project administered by The Kaizen Company’s Partnerships Incubator. I supported five executive directors and their teams in the areas of leadership communication coaching, team development, building executive presence, navigating change, and board development. Also co-created and co-launched a two-day Leadership Summit for the 12 executive directors that were apart of the Partnership's Incubator.

Executive Coach

Co Lab

2021-12 - 2023-3 · 1 yr 4 mos

I partnered with startup founders and C-suite executives as an executive coach in the areas of communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution.

Mediator

First Court

2020-9 - 2021-12 · 1 yr 4 mos

Remote

I virtually mediated employment, insurance, and personal injury disputes.

Consultant & Subject Matter Expert

MUFG

2018-10 - 2019-12 · 1 yr 3 mos

Greater Los Angeles Area

Managed, designed, and developed an 8-module, self-paced e-learning program for first-time managers on communication, conflict resolution, leadership development, and team dynamics called Mastering Management.

Subject Matter Expert & Online Instructor

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

2017-8 - 2019-11 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Subject matter expert and online facilitation for classes/workshops on: • Team Management • Teamwork in Diverse Teams

Consultant

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

2017-8 - 2017-9 · 2 mos

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Created the curriculum and simulations for an 8-module e-learning program called "Leadership, Team and Self-Management in Conflict Settings" for Oxford University's Master of Acts in Humanitarian Action & Peacebuilding (in partnership with UNITAR).

Mediator

EEOC

2014-4 - 2015-6 · 1 yr 3 mos

Newark, New Jersey

Neutral third party that assisted parties in resolving employment discrimination complaints within a confidential forum, resulting in a 90% settlement rate for the disputes I mediated.