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Sherman Roberts is an internationally renowned expert on topics related to the development of leadership skills and negotiation strategies. He is the founder of The Ivy Faculty Consortium, an organization that brings together professors and speakers from the world’s best universities and business schools such as Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley and Oxford, to provide executive education courses and leadership development programs to private companies, governments and international organizations around the world.  

Together with Tim Cullen, Sherman was the co-founder of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation (OPN) at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He provided the initial design in 2003 and served as Academic Director until 2015. He also created the Oxford Programme on Investment Decisions (OPID), a program dealing with high-level financial decision making, with the participation of Daniel Kahneman and other luminaries in the field of behavioral economics. He has also imparted programs specially designed for the Saïd Business School’s organizational clients such as the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

As Director of Executive Seminars at Harvard’s Kennedy School, he designed and taught in nine programs that hosted over 8,000 executives. Programs focused on decision making, persuasion and communication, productivity and quality improvement, innovation, financial decisions, and leadership in different organizational settings.  

Sherman has delivered executive courses for a large number of private, public and international organizations worldwide. He has also taught at many universities in the US including Carnegie-Mellon and Texas A&M, as well as universities in other countries such as the prestigious Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, Reykjavik University and several universities in Peru.

Sherman’s first position in the US was Deputy Director of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he organized research seminars on international conflict and a series of executive leadership programs. Early in his academic career, he taught behavioral science at Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela.