Enda Young is a negotiation, leadership, mediation, and conflict resolution specialist with over twenty-five years of experience as a practitioner and in delivering training, talks and lectures. He specialises in helping people get better at dealing with conflict and in supporting organisations and leaders through negotiations.
He is the founder and CEO of the Centre for Negotiation and Leadership.
Enda was an award-winning Managing Director of Mediation Northern Ireland and the founder of the negotiation and influencing programme at the William J Clinton Leadership Institute at Queen’s University Belfast. He is a tutor and lecturer for the programme on negotiation at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the Faculty Director on the Certified International Negotiator (CIN™) programme for the Chartered Institute of Professional Certifications in Singapore.
Enda holds an MA in “Theory, Culture and Identity” and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast. He has been trained at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University and at the Rotary Peace Fellowship Programme at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He is a certificated mediator with the International Mediation Institute (IMI) and the Mediators’ Institute of Ireland (MII), an accredited Executive Coach with the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
He is a Council member for the Mediator’s Institute of Ireland and a Director and one of the Co-founders of FactCheckNI, the first independent fact-checking organisation in Northern Ireland. Enda was named as one of the top 40 under 40 in Northern Ireland in 2019 by Business First and he received the Leading Social Innovation category award by CO3 Chief Officers forum in 2024. He is co-founder and Event Director of the Garvagh Forest parkrun.
Enda has worked with some of the world’s largest companies, universities and international NGO’s including: Equinor, Sabic, Saudi Aramco, Danske Bank, Almac, Roche, Capita, Durham University, Kent University, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Queen’s University Belfast, Oxford University, the BBC, Aljazeera, Rotary International, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Development Programme etc.
He has delivered talks and training throughout the UK and Ireland and internationally in: Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Germany, Thailand, Brazil, Romania, Turkey, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Canada and the United States.