Transitioning Out of College: Navigating Informal Negotiations in the Workplace
Presented by the Harvard Negotiation Club: This workshop will provide an overview of the research on gender and negotiation, debunk common negotiation myths, and offer practical strategies for women to navigate bias in all types of negotiations. Following the workshop, participants will be able to apply three tools to avoid common gendered traps and immediately negotiate more effectively.

Featured speaker: Joan Moon is the founder of Moon Negotiation, LLC. She is a negotiation consultant, trainer, and coach, specializing in research-based strategies to navigate gender bias. She is currently a Negotiation & Conflict Resolution Collaboratory Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership where she was the founding coach and lead researcher for the Negotiation Coaching Clinic which she continues to lead. Previously Joan served as a Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard where she was the founding coach for the Career Negotiation Coaching Program and researched the effects of negotiation coaching on negotiation outcomes.
Outside of Harvard, Joan primarily teaches research-based strategies on navigating gender and racial biases in negotiation. She is the published co-author of the article, Negotiation Strategies as a Pathway for Creating Equity in Medicine in a peer-reviewed journal. You can also hear her guest spot on NPR’s Life Kit.
She has trained and advised government agencies in negotiating state budgets and helping to avert a state government shutdown.
Previously, Joan was a Teach For America corps member and taught in the Bronx for seven years, as well as a management consultant at Deloitte. She earned her Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, her Master of Science in Education at Hunter College, and her Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Education at Emory University.
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