About Us

Our Vision.

Thriving workplaces where individuals and teams experience the meaningful connections they seek as human beings — and, in turn, become the thriving individuals who sustain and advance the organization’s success.

Sunny Sassaman
President and Founder

Applying Appropriate Alternative
Dispute Resolution Capabilities in Workplaces

ADR Group NW grew from over 25 years of experience as a provider of a broad range of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services with Common Ground Mediation Services LLC. As a former executive in the services industry and current Reservist for FEMA providing embedded ADR services to emergency managers, it was a natural shift for Sunny to form ADR Group NW to focus on workplaces, organizations, and business partnerships. Using the experiences as both a manager and mediator working with diverse individuals and conflict situations, ADR Group NW is well positioned to provide comprehensive ADR services that support individual empowerment and organizational success. We do this by filling the gaps with services to prevent, manage and resolve disputes.

Collaborative

We partner with our clients and SME's to provide the most appropriate services.

Helping real people find real solutions--and the confidence to thrive at work and in life.

Certified

Oregon State Certified Women Owned and Emerging Small Business.
USF Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Certificate.
HR Professional II Certificate.
MA Negotiation and Conflict Management, Cal State Dominguez Hills.
CINERGY Conflict Coaching Certificate.

Committed

Member, Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and past president of the board.
Member, Multnomah Village Business Association.

Trusted

Current client agreements for service include Portland Metro, Multnomah County, Port of Portland, NPCC Advanced Practitioner (APT) at Portland State University, State of Oregon, non- and for-profits, and education systems. Additionally, serve on multiple mediator panels to provide mediation services for the US military, DOI, TSA, and UPS.

To tell the truth I don't know a ton about mediation, but I did know that my organization was in need of a mediator when economic strain and new leadership had a collision in my institution. Sunny's contact information was easy to find, and she was easy to get a hold of. She was responsive, available, diligent and patient with us, an organization of over a hundred stressed out people grappling with heartbreak, anger, fear and instability. Sunny was able to help us set ground rules that let us organize ourselves and talk to each-other in a productive way, a miracle in the face of such a volatile time. We ended up making it to the other side of our conflict in a way that benefited the vast majority of the shareholders of the institution. We are all very thankful to have had a third party to help us through that time. We highly recommend Sunny's services.
-EA K, doctoral candidate and organizer