Bio in Brief:
Barbara G. Madonik
Barbara Madonik is an international communication consultant and mediator. She is president of Unicom Communication Consultants Inc., a company specializing in communication consulting and training, and dispute investigation and resolution services. She pioneered the practical use of nonverbal communication in Canada's legal system. After the publication of her landmark book, I Hear What You Say, But What Are You Telling Me? The Strategic Use of Nonverbal Communication in Mediation, she was invited to the United Nations. Her book has been required reading in courses like California State University Dominguez Hills masters program in negotiation and conflict resolution.

A communication strategist and profiler she is also retained as a trial consultant for discovery, witness preparation, cross-examination and videotape analysis. She has been cited as an international communication expert and expert in jury selection. She was retained on Canada's most notorious confinement and murder case.

Ms. Madonik has been a charter Vice-President for the Association for Professional Training Organizations, program consultant for The Advocates' Society Institute and York University, and communication and negotiation instructor for York University, Seneca College, American Management Association International, government and industry.

Ms. Madonik's corporate successes include managing sales forces, administrative services and being general manager of three companies.

Ms. Madonik has been part-time faculty at York University and guest faculty for the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Ontario Bar Association, University of Toronto Certificate Program in Dispute Resolution, and Osgoode Hall Law School's LL.B. intensive program in criminal law and Graduate Studies LL.M. program specializing in ADR.

Ms. Madonik is a veteran professional keynote speaker and conference presenter for corporations and associations. Attendees describe her blend of humour and knowledge as "controlled dynamite" and her programs as "thought provoking and useful". She continues to deliver programs to organizations like Holiday Inns, Canadian Society of Association Executives, Ontario Nurses' Association, Ministry of Natural Resource, Ministry of the Attorney General, Atlanta Bar Association, Mediation Saskatchewan, Connecticut Bar Association, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of Canada, and IBM. Her presentations at annual American Bar Association Dispute Resolution conferences have drawn standing-room-only audiences.

Ms. Madonik is a Board Member of the York University Dispute Resolution Advisory Board, a former Director of the ADR Institute of Ontario and associate member of the American Bar Association.


Media Appearances:
Ms. Madonik has been featured on radio, television, and in print:

  • Tripp/Lewinsky Video Tape Analysis, Chronicle, CHFI-FM, November 17, 1998.
  • Analyzing the Clinton Video Tapes, Bynon, Global TV, September 21, 1998.
  • Clinton Tapes: Analyzing Body Language, Chronicle, CHFI-FM, September 22, 1998.
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution, M. Crawford, Canadian Lawyer, Legal Update, pp 43-44, May 1998.
  • Business trips: a family affair?, Gayle MacDonald, Managing, Report on Business, The Globe and Mail, January 16, 1996.
  • Learn to toot your own horn, Gordon Powers, Human Capital, Personal Affairs, Report on Business, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, August 12, 1995.
  • Making Metro Work, Colleen McEdwards, CBC Saturday News Report, April, 1995.
  • Learn a new language, Sandy Naiman, On My Own, The Toronto Sun, Monday April 7, 1986.
  • Programs teach people to talk to each other, Cheryl Agoston, The Toronto Page, Catholic Register, March 29, 1986.

Barbara Madonik's e-mail address is: madonik@unicomcommunication.com

She can also be reached at:
Unicom Communication Consultants Inc.
379 Winnett Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6C 3M2
Canada

Phone: 416-652-1867