WEST UKRAINIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

 Recently, Oksana Koval, Director of the Education and Research Institute of Communication, met with Steve Alban Tineo, founder and CEO of Assertive Group (Switzerland), an expert in negotiation and mediation.

The meeting was also attended by the Managing Director of Assertive Group, Sonya Grimm, and the Coordinator for International Activities of the Institute, Anastasia Martynevych.

Assertive Group is a unique negotiation, facilitation, leadership and influence company that helps leaders and companies accelerate their growth by combining strong financial, commercial and negotiation skills.

The main slogan of Assertive Group is to strive to achieve W3 - a triple win-win-win: #1 - for you, #2 - for each party, #3 - for society as a whole. "We are leading a revolution in ethical negotiation, focusing on human capital to transform mindsets and create respectful, positive and successful solutions. We support companies, governments and individuals to reach agreements that are fair and sustainable in the long term," says Mr. Tineo.

For more than 20 years, Steve Alban Tineo has served as an advisor and trusted negotiator to many of the most influential leaders in international relations, politics, banking and finance. He has led and advised negotiation and crisis management teams in many countries. He is also the developer of the KYF© Know Yourself First training program, which includes a wide range of philosophies and programs on personal development, emotional expression, mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution, and a practical guide for victims of violence, highly sensitive people and anyone experiencing emotional pain.

As a financial analyst, Steve Alban founded BART© - Business And Response Team, a unique platform that brings together various specialists and experts to develop strategies and solutions for complex deal negotiations and conflict resolution. Through BART©, Assertive Group regularly invests in or participates in the long-term development of companies and their projects.

Steve Alban founded and has been running the BRAIN© Academy for many years, a talent factory that uses the KYF© methodology to significantly improve the mental capacity and impressive performance of numerous senior executives, top managers, VIPs, as well as sports and media stars and celebrities.

During the discussion of the areas of cooperation between West Ukrainian National University and Assertive Group, the parties agreed to hold a course of lectures for students of the Negotiation Psychology and Mediation program on international negotiations and programs of self-knowledge and personal development by Mr. Steve Alban Tineo and Ms. Sonia Grimm.

The possibilities of cooperation with the United Nations University, which unites 13 institutes and research centers located in 12 countries and focuses on a wide range of research topics at different levels and sources of financial support, coordinated by the headquarters in Tokyo, were also discussed.

We are incredibly excited about the long but productive negotiations and look forward to further steps of cooperation and interesting projects.