Lori Britt is a Collaborative Discussion Visiting Fellow for 2025. Lori is Director and Professor in the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University, where she teaches courses in organizational communication, leadership, dialogue and deliberation, and design and facilitation of processes for productive talk at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is also the co-director of the Institute for Constructive Advocacy and Dialogue (www.jmu/icad) whose aim is to shape conversations that impact individuals, organizations, and communities.
Her teaching and work with ICAD is infused with a passion for training students to be able to design and facilitate conversations where people can tackle the challenging issues that face our communities and that impede organizations from reaching their full potential. Well designed and facilitated talk can keep people at the table even when the issues are difficult, and this offers more opportunity to collaboratively find solutions.
