About Meredith
Meredith Holley is an Oregon-based mediator and life coach. She holds certification from the Oregon Mediation Diversity Project as a mediator and is a certified life coach through The Life Coach School. Her training combines dispute-resolution techniques and coaching practices that clients find practical and accessible.
Her professional path moved into conflict resolution after early exposure to facilitation and group process. That background led her to pursue formal mediation credentials and coach training. The Oregon Mediation Diversity Project credential signals specialized training in culturally-responsive practice. The Life Coach School program added a one-to-one coaching framework that Holley uses when clients need help sorting options and setting workable goals.
In practice, Holley works with people and organizations facing interpersonal and structural challenges. Her caseload includes workplace conflict, organizational disputes, community-level mediation and restorative conversations. She conducts mediations, facilitates multi-party discussions and offers coaching sessions aimed at clarifying priorities and improving communication. She mixes structured processes with conversational coaching to move conversations forward and reduce the chance of escalation.
Colleagues describe Holley as pragmatic. She tends to favor clear timelines and simple ground rules. That approach shapes how she prepares participants for mediation and how she manages sessions. Preparing people for the process is as important to her as steering the conversation once it begins. Her training in diversity-centered mediation also influences how she assesses power dynamics and designs participatory procedures.
Holley maintains current memberships in professional associations related to mediation and coaching. She participates in continuing education and peer learning. Those activities inform her practice and help her stay current on emerging methods in dispute resolution and coaching.
She practices under the banner of Eris Conflict Resolution in Oregon. There she offers mediation services, facilitation and life coaching for clients across sectors. Her work now concentrates on helping parties reach durable agreements and individuals navigate change through coaching and structured dialogue.
