Ulrich Stander

Ulrich Stander holds a BA LLB and an LLM and is an admitted advocate. He completed the Industrial Relations Development Programme (IRDP) at the Stellenbosch University Graduate School of Business (USB), receiving the Director’s award. After working in a senior legal position in the corporate environment for some time, he has been practicing as an employment law and employment relations lawyer for more than 20 years.

Ulrich focuses on advising, conflict resolution, mediation, negotiation and leadership training. He acts in an advisory capacity on employment law strategy and policy-making for numerous corporations in the financial services, media, fishing, retail, e-commerce, transport and other industries.

Apart from his passion for, and commitment to, finding integrated solutions to employment law challenges and the challenges of uncontrolled conflict in the workplace, he is also the co-designer of leadership development programs such as Leaders @ Work and Leading for Results, which have been successfully presented for the past 6 years.

He has participated in various sessions on the Harvard Law School Negotiation Programme. Ulrich co-authored two books on employment law, Dismissal – Principles, Checklists and Forms (2004) and Effective Workplace Solutions: Employment law from a business perspective (2016), and occasionally presents guest lectures on employment law and employment relations programmes at the USB. He is an accredited commercial and labour mediator of the ADR Group (London).

Business areas:

• Advice, consultation and training on employment law and employment relations, negotiation and dispute resolution
• Facilitation and conflict management interventions
• Mediation and arbitration (labour and commercial)