About Us

Experienced Conflict Resolution Professionals.

Why Use Our Mediation Services?

JRB Mediations provides a proven, confidential, non-adversarial approach to resolving workplace disputes. Through our various approaches we provide you with valuable insights and recommendations. We help you and your employees:

Manage and resolve conflict effectively and efficiently
Decrease stress & improve emotional well-being
Restore the work environment to being healthy & productive
Refocus on the business
Restore and enhance profitability and efficiency.

If not dealt with promptly and appropriately, workplace disputes can create a toxic environment, impacting the entire team.

JRB Mediations is about helping people.

When life gets tough you want to be able to trust someone who understands your situation and has the knowledge and experience to guide you through it.

At JRB Mediations’ we create a safe environment for people in conflict to have in-depth, open and respectful discussions with each other so they may seek understanding of each other’s perspectives and find solutions everyone agrees with.

We help people resolve conflicts quickly and cost effectively. We use our proven negotiation methods to facilitate and manage the mediation process, guiding parties through the complexities and emotions of negotiations to a mediated win-win resolution and agreement.

“You may not get what you want, but you may get what you actually need” – Annoymous

Our Mission

Resolving Conflicts. Creating Agreements.

JRB Mediations delivers exceptional dispute resolution solutions, effectively, efficiently and with care so you can move on with your life and put disputes behind you.

About JRB Mediations

JRB Mediations was established in 2015 by Judy Balombin, a Qualified Mediator and Certified Workplace Investigator with over 10 years of mediation experience.

Led by her passion for mediation and helping people resolve their disputes, Judy’s down to earth, empathetic, and direct communication style both establishes trust and assures her clients she will get the job done.

Judy’s specialized communication and conflict resolution skills allow her to:

explore what lies beneath the surface of the dispute
identify the real issues
ensure that all parties are heard and understood
help all parties get unstuck and move forward to resolution

Judy is highly skilled in navigating conflicts ranging from simple to complex, including high conflict and multi-party disputes.

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“We do not have to agree; we do need to understand.”

— Anonymous

Mediation & Industry Experience

Judy’s Story

Judy first provided mediation for workplace and civil disputes in through JRB Mediations in 2015 and soon after included family and separation & divorce mediation to her service offerings.

Not long after establishing JRB Mediations, the Alberta Provincial Courts sought her as a mediator for their Civil Mediation Program, where she resolved a variety of disputes ranging from real estate, contracts, construction, partnerships, and other issues.

Following her successful tenure with the Provincial Courts, Judy joined the Alberta Energy Regulator as full-time mediator specializing in resolving intricate and complex oil and gas disputes between companies and between landowners and companies.

Aside from mediation, Judy’s broad experience has included many successful collaborations and negotiations with clients from various industries and organizational levels. Judy has:

overseen government and agricultural investments
led economic development projects and provincial policy initiatives
directed communication campaigns
diversified experience as a Realtor, post secondary Instructor, experience in property management, farming and more

Judy’s diverse background gives her the advantage of understanding a range of industries and perspectives, and creating custom resolution strategies for workplace conflicts, family disputes, and civil disagreements.

Judy has also provided volunteer mediation services within the community.

Judy is a full member with the Family Mediation Society of Alberta and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Alberta and of Canada.

Education & Professional Training

Judy is a highly trained professional who has earned degrees in Commerce and Arts (Psychology/Sociology) from the University of Alberta and a degree in Communications from Simon Fraser University.

Ever dedicated to her craft, Judy continues to invest in alternative dispute resolution training through the Legal Education Society of Alberta, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, Erickson Coaching International, and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of both Alberta and Canada.