Setting Up in Business as a Mediator - 2nd Edition by Stephen Walker (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

You want to be a mediator, but how do you get started? How do you build your business? How do you make money from being a full-time mediator?

Setting Up in Business as a Mediator provides you with the answers to these questions.

Whether new to mediation and wanting to start a business as a full-time mediator, or an experienced mediator wanting to develop and grow an existing business, Setting Up in Business as a Mediator has hands-on advice for every stage of a mediator's career and is full of essential information on how mediators can get started in business and grow their existing practice.

Restructured, revised and fully updated the new 2nd edition shows:

- How to become accredited
- How to find a market
- The secrets of a good profile
- Hints for great blogging
- How to set up a website
- The best times to tweet
- What not to post on LinkedIn and Facebook
- How to overcome objections and rejection

Packed with helpful tips and guidance, checklists, self-audits, templates, scripts and real life examples, this book aims to get mediators thinking, prompting answers to the following questions, and more:

- Why are they doing mediation?
- How many mediations a year do they want to be doing in three years' time?
- How much money, time and effort do they need to invest to get there?
- What do they need to charge?
- Why would they choose themselves as a mediator?

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.

Review Quotes

I have just read your book and I wanted to say congratulations. It is well designed as it covers a lot of ground but in enough detail for the reader to know what to do next.


This book is exactly what I needed 15 years ago, and with it, I would possibly now be a very successful full-time mediator instead of a full-time forensic accountant who flirts with mediation. With this book, anyone who is determined to become a successful mediator has all the guidance and all the tools needed...use it well, and things most certainly will happen. I heartily recommend it.
Review of previous edition

Unique in being both really practical and truly inspirational, the book offers hope and guidance to mediators at every stage of their career, whilst giving a good idea of the time, money and effort involved if you are going to succeed.
Review of previous edition

About the Author

Stephen Walker is an independent mediator ranked in the top 40 UK mediators by Chambers and Legal 500. He has conducted over 500 civil and commercial mediations and is dual accredited in the USA through INDAR. Stephen is also a Visiting Lecturer in Mediation at Kings College London on the MSc in Construction Law, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also the author of three other mediation titles published by Bloomsbury Professional.

For further information please visit www.swalkermediation.com.