Hal Movius
Dr. Hal Movius is founder and president of Movius Consulting. An applied social and clinical psychologist, he is also senior consultant to the Consensus Building Institute, visiting executive lecturer at the Darden Graduate School of Business, consultant to the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Virginia, and a research collaborator at Ethical Systems.
Hal’s expertise spans the fields of negotiation, communication, emotion regulation, leadership, and organizational learning. His insights have been published in Harvard Business Review, Time, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Slate, and and a number of academic journals. Hal is the author of two acclaimed books: Resolve: Negotiating Life’s Conflicts with Greater Confidence (Lifetree, 2017) and Built to Win: Creating A World Class Negotiating Organization (Harvard Business Press, 2009) as well as two dozen negotiation simulations and the popular teaching films that anchor Movius Consulting’s virtual applied learning programs.
Hal has given invited talks and keynotes at Harvard, Georgetown, the University of Virginia, the HSM Brasil Negotiation Forum; the Global Institute for Leadership Development, IMD’s High Performance Leadership Program, and the Women In Leadership Summit. For five years he co-taught The Program on Technology Negotiation, an executive seminar at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Hal’s consulting practice centers on helping leaders and teams to negotiate more effectively in competitive or constrained environments, by adopting practices and process that bring greater awareness, mastery and poise. He has advised teams in more than 40 countries across five continents and trained thousands of leaders and students. Past and present clients include Procter & Gamble, Astra-Zeneca, MSD, ViiV, Vertex, Pfizer, WPP Group, Milliken, McDonald’s, Amgen, BP, TNS Global, Ogilvy & Mather, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett-Packard, the United Nations Development Program, the Federal Aviation Administration, the University of Chicago, the Society for Neuroscience, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
A graduate of Harvard College, he earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Arizona in 2000, where he was awarded the John Fife Graduate Award for Conflict Resolution. He completed his clinical internship at Cambridge Hospital / Harvard Medical School.
He is married with two children and lives in Charlottesville, VA.
“There can’t be a more thoughtful leadership coach or advisor on the planet than Hal Movius. He brings decades of experience providing practical guidance to global leaders facing knotty and complex business problems, as well as a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of compelling, immediately relevant findings from the fields of psychology, negotiations, and business. These are brought forward at critical moments to suggest concrete lessons, and help chart a wise path forward. Add that to his extraordinary communication skills – a special talent for breaking down complicated stuff and distilling it into crisp and sage advice – and you have yourself not just a coach, but a remarkable partner and counselor.”
- David Finn, Director Corporate Development, Google Fiber
“Hal is an incredibly talented and gifted negotiation consultant. His abilities to distill information quickly, offer balanced insight, and make recommendations that are appropriately suited to clients’ needs are exceptional.”
- Mary Skelton Roberts, Co-Director Climate Program, the Barr Foundation
“Dr. Hal Movius is a seasoned and experienced negotiation trainer and coach with the ability to quickly impact organizations at a deep level. Hal has worked successfully with some of the largest companies in the world on their most difficult negotiation challenges and had demonstrable impact on their organizational capacity to negotiate better deals in an efficient manner while preserving and enhancing important relationships. Every intervention that Hal engages in is customized to the individual company, context, and challenge and this approach is combined with his continuous efforts to push the theory forward in the field of negotiation. Any organization would be fortunate to be able to partner with Hal on improving their negotiating capability.”
- Joshua Gordon, Sports Conflict Institute