Denise Pirrotti Hummel, Esq. is the Founder and Director of Universal Consensus, a company a company specializing in providing consulting and training services to multi-national companies. These services include executive coaching, communications workshops around the boardroom or across the globe, corporate training and leadership consulting related to any individual or corporation doing business or seeking to do business internationally; mediation of any dispute which involves multi-cultural or international issues; conflict resolution training to equip leaders and others to deal with conflict in the workplace and across borders; and, speeches, both live and remote, related to all of the above issues. Ms. Hummel was accepted to The U.S. State Department Speaker and Specialist Program, a program which consists of traveling and electronic events which allow American experts to engage with foreign audiences worldwide. Hummel was chosen due to the model she developed which is an adaptation of the Western Facilitative Mediation Model for Non-Western cultures. She is also the developer and instructor for a series of global trainings which USD (the University of San Diego) will offer as a Certification for Global Business Strategy.

Ms. Hummel began her career as an employment and civil rights attorney litigating and mediating high profile disputes which in many cases had a profound impact on our country. She tried and won, for example, the first class action under the Americans With Disabilities Act, winning for over 200,000 hearing impaired residents of the City of New York, Emergency 9-11 services, and was named one of the Top 20 Young Attorneys in the United States that year by the American Bar Association. In addition to her 18 years in the employment law arena, Denise devotes herself to international concerns and the promotion of peace on an individual and global level. She helped champion the movement now known as Peace Through Tourism, and was a keynote speaker at the International Institute of Peace Through Tourism Global Summit in Pattaya, Thailand, where she shared the podium with Ministry and dignitaries from all over the world. Her mediation and cross-cultural training have taken her throughout the United States, as well as to Jordan, Dubai, Thailand, India, Cambodia, and throughout Europe.