Bill Eddy is an award-winning author, lawyer, therapist, mediator and the President of the High Conflict Institute. He developed the "High Conflict Personality" theory (HCP theory) and is an international expert on managing high-conflict disputes. As an attorney, Bill is a Certified Family Law Specialist in California and the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego. Prior to becoming an attorney in 1992, he was a Licensed Clinical Social worker with twelve years’ experience providing therapy to children, adults, couples and families in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics. He has taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego School of Law for six years and he is on the part-time faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and the National Judicial College.
Megan Hunter, MBA, is an author, speaker, educator and expert on high-conflict disputes and complicated relationships. She is CEO of Unhooked Media, a U.S.-based media company focused on relationship and conflict revolution through print, digital and the spoken word. She is publisher at Unhooked Books, and co-founder of the High Conflict Institute. She is a frequent guest on Sirius XM Satellite's The Doctor Show (psychiatry).
Megan gives lectures and other training to legal, mental health, business, leadership groups, universities and other professionals across Australia, the U.S., Canada, and South Africa. She has strong policy and judicial training experience during her tenure at the Arizona Supreme Court and as a member of the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners. She volunteers at the Black Sheep Project (for Borderline Disorder) and the Personality Disorder Awareness Network.