Linda Netsch

Linda is the founder of Align Consulting and teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She works with business, legal, and government professionals throughout the United States, Europe, The Middle East, and Latin America. Her projects vary from helping The Citadel integrate women into its student body, to mediating business disputes, to helping companies develop new corporate strategies.

Prior to starting her own business, Linda practiced law at an entertainment law firm in Los Angeles and worked as an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Attorney at the US Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C. As an ADR attorney, her duties involved increasing the use and effectiveness of negotiation, mediation, and other alternative dispute resolution processes within the Postal Service. She also mediated federal contract and employment disputes and facilitated sessions on changing federal rules and regulations.

Before private law practice, Linda served as an officer in the US Air Force - first as a communications-electronics program manager for a NATO satellite project and then as an attorney practicing criminal prosecution and labor law. She was on the faculty of the Air Force Academy for four years, teaching business law and negotiation/conflict resolution.

Linda has a B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.