Global Mediation Services Ltd (GMS) was formed in 1999 to develop and expand the ADR and mediator training business of Commercial, Mediation & Arbitration Services Ltd (CMA).

GMS's managing director, Colin J Wall, has been organizing and teaching commercial and construction mediation training courses for over fifteen years. The recent and rapid expansion in the use of mediation world-wide and the desire of individuals to be trained and accredited as mediators has led to the formation of GMS as a specialist mediation training company.

Global Mediation Services Ltd

GMS mediator and ADR training courses are founded on Colin Wall's extensive experience as a teacher of dispute resolution techniques and on his experience as a practising mediator and dispute system designer.

The success of mediation depends on the skills and qualities of a properly trained mediator. Mediation is not an adjudicative process like arbitration and litigation and arbitrators and lawyers do not necessarily make good mediators unless they are properly trained. Best mediators may come from any profession.

Colin Wall, a visiting lecturer at two of Hong Kong's leading universities, is also a Chartered Arbitrator and Approved Tutor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is Immediate Past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Deputy President of the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres and is uniquely placed to help individuals trained in adjudicative processes make the paradigm shift to the non-combative, creative skills required in mediation.