Andrew Lewis is a Principal of Better Negotiation LLC in New York, providing advisory services in negotiation and relationship management.

He helps clients improve business results by building individual and organizational expertise in negotiating and managing critical business relationships, whether they are external (with clients, customers, suppliers or alliance partners) or internal. Much of his work involves advising senior executives on effective negotiation and conflict resolution strategies, using ideas developed and pioneered at the Harvard Negotiation Project.

Mr. Lewis consults to clients across many industry sectors, including financial services, professional services, healthcare, and technology. He facilitates over 100 seminars a year to audiences around the globe. In recent years he has advised clients in English, French and Spanish, in the United States, Mexico, Canada, 8 countries in Western and Eastern Europe, the United Arab Emirates, China, India and South Africa.

Previously, Mr. Lewis was a senior consultant at a consulting spin-off of the Harvard Negotiation Project, where he led the design and delivery of training and consulting services in negotiation and relationship management. He managed relationships with some of the firm’s biggest clients, responsible for overseeing negotiation advisory work across entire business divisions. On behalf of a large financial services company, he ran a 2-day mediation between a senior client team and a key client, resulting in a decision to continue the contract and a strengthened relationship. He also ran a train-the-trainer program for a large medical devices company, training 15 senior sales executives to lead internal negotiation workshops for an entire division’s sales force.

Mr. Lewis has held positions in change management and organizational learning at Goldman Sachs. He was an internal consultant and project manager for a major internal reorganization of some of the firm’s back office functions. He later took on responsibility for the design and delivery of management training programs, focusing on such areas as change management, process re-engineering, leadership, and conflict resolution.

Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Lewis consulted at a boutique firm on the human capital aspects of large change initiatives, including reorganizations and post-merger integrations. His clients included Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, professional services, and pharmaceuticals sectors, as well as major public sector organizations such as the British Civil Service and the European Commission.

He has worked at Procter & Gamble in brand management, where he helped launch a new laundry and cleaning products business in France.

Mr. Lewis is a dual British/American citizen who has lived in Belgium, France, Spain, the UK and the US. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.