Profile
- Roy Baroff is an attorney who focuses his practice on dispute resolution services including mediation, conflict consulting services and education.
- He served as the NC State Faculty & Staff Ombuds for almost 8 years until June 2022. Beginning in Fall 2022 he worked with MWI as an outsourced ombuds for Metropolitan State University of Denver and Arapahoe Ski Basin. He later served Washington University in Saint Louis and Southern New Hampshire University. He also worked as a professional ombuds with The McCammon Group serving the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and Fish Richardson Law Firm. As of June 2024 Roy retired from ongoing ombuds services.
- He is a North Carolina Superior Court, Family Financial and Clerk of Court Certified Mediator (certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission). He is a retired member of the North Carolina Academy of Superior Court Mediators and the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals.
- Roy was originally trained as a mediator in 1982 and received his North Carolina Superior Court Mediator Certification in 1992. He completed his Family Financial mediation training in 2003 and his Clerk of Superior Court training in 2006.
- Roy received his ombuds training in 2007 with the International Ombuds Association and obtained advanced designation as a CO-OP (Certified Organizational Ombuds Practitioner) in 2017 (renewed in 2021).
- Roy is also an educator. He taught a Mediation course for the UNC School of Government MPA program (Masters of Public Administration - Fall 2020). He also teaches a Negotiations class to law students at Elon University School of Law once each year. He previously taught first year law students Research Reasoning Writing and Advocacy at UNC School of Law, dispute resolution courses to graduate and undergraduate students in the Peace and Conflict Studies Department at UNC Greensboro, and similar courses at Elon University School of Law.
- Roy is proactive when it comes to conflict and believes addressing conflict situations early and in a systematic manner can make businesses and organizations more productive and competitive. He provides external ombuds services to organizations seeking early conflict resolution.