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Work with Trevor Sones

Resolving workplace conflict requires both expertise and trust.

Trevor Sones offers mediation and facilitation services that help organizations address disputes effectively, preserve relationships, and strengthen workplace culture. Whether you’re facing a union negotiation, an employment dispute, or looking to build leadership capacity, Trevor provides structured, proven processes tailored to your needs.

Labour Mediation

Trusted by unions, employers, and government organizations across BC

Labour mediation is at the core of Trevor’s practice. With nearly two decades of experience, he has supported organizations through complex labour relations issues, from collective bargaining and grievances to workplace relationship improvement.

  • Providing neutral guidance to ensure meetings remain productive, respectful, and results-oriented.

  • When the source of tension or the solution outcomes are unclear, Trevor helps organizations clarify the issues at hand and chart a path toward resolution.

  • Working with unions and employers to rebuild trust, improve communication, and re-establish effective collaboration after conflict.

  • Labour mediation offers a constructive way forward that helps organizations save time, reduce costs, and preserve long-term working relationships.

Employment Mediation

Helping HR leaders, counsel, and employees resolve workplace disputes quickly and confidentially

Employment conflicts can be highly disruptive, costly, and emotionally charged. As a neutral third party, Trevor provides a structured process that reduces stress, creates space for meaningful dialogue, and helps parties move toward fair, workable outcomes without the delays and expense of litigation.

  • Facilitating fair and confidential resolution of termination disputes and guiding reintegration processes that clarify expectations, define responsibilities, and rebuild trust.

  • Managing highly sensitive disputes with neutrality, confidentiality, and emotional intelligence, ensuring all parties feel heard while balancing power dynamics and keeping discussions focused on meaningful resolution.

  • Providing structured guidance in disputes without clear processes or case law, helping parties work through ambiguity and reach practical, durable agreements.

  • Employment mediation offers organizations and individuals a constructive way forward that reduces cost and disruption, alleviates stress, and restores clarity in the workplace.

Speaking & Facilitation

Workshops, keynotes, and facilitation grounded in experience and practical application

In addition to his mediation practice, Trevor is a highly regarded educator and facilitator. As an Adjunct Professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, he has taught conflict resolution, negotiation, and advanced communication skills to a wide range of professionals from both the private and public sectors—across Canada and internationally.

  • Engaging, thought-provoking sessions that translate conflict resolution and advanced communication skills into practical strategies for organizations.

  • Tailored programs on mediation, negotiation, and advanced communication, built on years of teaching and practitioner experience.

  • Neutral, trusted support for leadership teams, strategic planning sessions, and corporate retreats.

  • Trevor’s facilitation and teaching help organizations build the internal skills they need to prevent conflict, strengthen communication, and create healthier, more collaborative workplace cultures.

Not Sure if Mediation Fits Your Situation?

If you don’t see your situation listed here, please reach out. Mediation skills apply broadly — from team dynamics and leadership challenges to organizational change, and even conflict between corporate or business enterprises.

Ready to Resolve Your Workplace Conflict?

To learn more about Trevor’s background, approach, and philosophy, visit the About page.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Trevor provides labour, employment, and workplace mediation services, including collective bargaining, dismissal and severance disputes, harassment and discrimination claims, and facilitation of complex workplace meetings.

  • Mediation is faster, more cost-effective, and confidential. It helps organizations resolve disputes constructively while preserving relationships and reducing legal risk.

  • Trevor is based in Vancouver and supports organizations across BC in both the public and private sectors. He has also worked with numerous clients nationally and internationally.