Martha Harty
Martris, LLC & Carnegie Mellon University Founder & Professor
Pittsburgh, PA
Martha Harty is a mediator, trainer and learning scientist, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, and co-founder of Martris, a tech startup. She creates training modules for student teams covering collaboration, diversity and conflict skills, and studies their effectiveness. Recent work includes CollaborativeU (basic diversity and conflict communication), ConflictU (interest-based negotiation), and MeetingU (features of good meetings), which are available on CMU’s Open Learning Initiative. Her startup’s first product, Conflict Coach, is a mobile app that helps users navigate personal and professional conflicts and learn negotiation skills. Users can earn an badge in basic conflict management. Harty is a member of the OSN Open Recognition Workgroup.