ABOUT ADR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS, INC.
We teach non-confrontational methods of resolving differences and conflict.
We are dedicated to exploring new means of resolving conflicts through cooperation, conciliation, and collaboration.
We strive to educate, instruct and guide your organization or business to be a respectful, non-threatening and talent-nurturing environment.
To achieve these goals, we will partner with other similarly-minded individuals and entities that believe that a peaceful, non-combative and non-adversarial process works more effectively in reaching and building an acceptable win-win resolution than would the alternative.
ADR Educational Systems, Inc. will accomplish this mission through webinars, e-learning modules, and “live” training, tailored to the needs of each individual situation.
One of our first endeavors in this area has been to collaborate with the American Arbitration Association (the “AAA”), world renowned as the arbiter of conflict resolution. Together, we have developed and provided the “gold-standard” in training Florida Circuit Civil Mediators to become panel participants in the Supreme Court ordered (AOSC09-054) Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program. ADR Educational Systems, Inc. created and developed the course for this program.
We are available to create and develop programs in this field for law firms and solo practitioners, mediators, business ventures, public and private organizations that strive to achieve their mission through these means.
Please check this page frequently as we endeavor to evolve ever-more creative and timely concepts and methods to achieve better outcomes through alternate dispute resolution.
Profiles:
Monica Kalker Caruso, Esq. – ADR Educational Systems, Inc.
Ms. Caruso is a general practitioner and a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil, Appellate, and Family Court mediator. She is also a Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator and Parent Coordinator. Ms. Caruso worked as an Assistant State Attorney in Lee County prior to going into private practice. For the past twenty years, Ms. Caruso has litigated and mediated family cases as well as business and commercial disputes including the mediation of residential mortgage foreclosure cases through the Collins Center and the American Arbitration Association. Ms. Caruso brings her experience and education into the preparation and presentation of educational workshops for attorneys, mediators, real estate brokers and business entities. She earned her B.S. degree in Accounting and Finance at the University of Arizona and her J.D. at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Leo Grachow, M.Ed – ADR Educational Systems, Inc.
Mr. Grachow served on the front-lines of the US Customs Service and subsequently the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection of the US Dept. of Homeland Security for 27-years as a Senior Law Enforcement Officer. He owned and operated a successful national publishing, advertising space sales, advertising agency and graphic design business for over 10 years. Mr. Grachow is a trained facilitator in the alternate dispute resolution process of Strategic Problem Solving as well as Interest Based Negotiations. He is a “train-the-trainer” professional for the Anti-Defamation League’s “A World of Difference” and “A Classroom of Difference” anti-bias and anti-bullying workshops. Mr. Grachow is also a Florida Supreme Court Certified County Court Mediator and Qualified Arbitrator. He earned his B.S. Degree in Communication Arts & Science and Education and a Master of Science Degree in Educational-Psychology from Queens College of the City University of New York.
