Program Manager for Training and Organizational Consulting, Executive Education Programs Associate Professor Emeritus, Public Affairs Adjunct Faculty, Public Administration Faculty Associate, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts

After more than two decades as a Professor and director or co-director of five conflict resolution programs in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Neil left full time teaching to have more flexibility to pursue other activities in consulting, teaching, and scholarship.

Along with his Emeriti Faculty status, Neil continues to teach conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation and leadership classes at Syracuse University as an adjunct faculty member of the Maxwell School’s renowned Public Administration Program, and as a teaching associate with the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC).  In addition, he teaches in the University’s acclaimed Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Whitman School of Management. During the winter months, Neil also teaches a course in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Practice at Nova Southeastern University’s Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Neil also continues consulting and training while serving as Program Manager for Training and Organizational Consulting at the Maxwell School’s Executive Education Programs and as head of his own consulting firm, Dr. Neil Katz and Associates. In these capacities, he has worked with many prestigious public and private sector organizations throughout the United States.