Dr. Clare Fowler
March 11, 2026
Dr. Clare Fowler is Executive Vice-President of ODR.com, recipient of the International Woman of Peace Award, 2024, and author of Rising Above Office Conflict: The Light-hearted Guide for the Heavy-hearted Employee. Dr. Clare Fowler received her Doctorate on designing dispute resolution systems for small businesses from the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education/Organizational Leadership and her Masters of Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law. Dr. Fowler also works as Managing Editor and with the Caseload Manager at Mediate.com. She teaches at the Pepperdine Straus Dispute Resolution Department and the University of Oregon. Clare mediates and trains, focusing on workplace disputes. Dr. Fowler’s dissertation was a phenomenological study of workplace disputes. Her 2023 book, Rising Above Office Conflict, is a guidebook for HR directors dealing with high-conflict behaviors. Her motto for the dispute resolution field? “Rising Tides Raise All Boats.”