About
Dana Lynn Bernstein, MA, PCC, PMP is a conflict resolution coach who helps clients resolve conflict from the inside out. She is excited about her upcoming publication about how to resolve internal conflict. She has a variety of certificates and degrees with the common theme of helping people get out of their own way to achieve their dreams. Her other passions are organizing chaos, being a wife and mother, managing the family-run animal hospital and working at Rutgers University.
She has greatly enjoyed teaching practical skills and created workshops and webinars for Stevens Institute for Technology, Rutgers, Kean University and a variety of corporate clients on several topics including managing difficult conversations and conflict; building and negotiating contracts, resilience, human-ness in project management, and ethics to name a few. She has over a dozen articles published in various magazines and delivered eight "Mastering the Art of'' series webinars for Project management institute with about 10,000-40,000 listeners. She has a Master’s Degree in dispute resolution, over 1700 coaching hours, and is a PMP. Dana is also an avid volunteer for Girl Scouts, a court mediator, and co-director of Chapter Programs with ICF New Jersey. She is a 2nd degree black belt in MMA and just shy of her 1st degree in Okinawan Gōjū-ryū style karate.
Featured Work
It's the Thought That Counts: Mastering the Art of You vs You
The journey you are about to take is rediscovering you. The real you. The one that may be buried under the thoughts that don’t serve you. Weighty thoughts affect how you manage conflict. The Thought Roadmap will give you practical tools to reduce the thought burden.
With your best self at the center, you’ll learn conflict is best resolved from the inside out. Conflict starts with your thoughts. The heavier the thoughts about the unchangeable past, the more tedious the climb to travel to the other side of conflict.
The first step is to resolve your internal conflict–the YOU vs you fight between your head and heart. Internal conflicts have no boundaries and affect your work-life balance, setting and adhering to your own Values, and making tough choices. With a greater sense of internal harmony, you can tackle the present without the burden of the past.
The framework to being your best self while managing the ever-unpredictable conflict is just three steps: pause, ponder, and pivot. The best part of the Thought Roadmap, is you get to go home, to you.