Chip Rose has been the Director of the Mediation Center in Santa Cruz, California and certified as a Specialist in Family Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.  Chip maintained private practices in Mediation and Collaborative Practice in Santa Cruz, California prior to retiring in 2018.

Chip is recognized nationally and internationally as an innovator and expert in the field of mediation and collaborative conflict resolution.  He is a founding Board Member and the immediate past President of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators (2015-2016) and previously was a member of the Board of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP), the first international organization in the field of Collaborative Practice.  An adjunct faculty member of the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law, he teaches workshops in basic and advanced mediation and Collaborative Practice.  Chip is the author of The Collaborative Law Practice; The Creative Solution column in the quarterly Family Section Newsletter of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators (APFM); the chapter, “Mediating Financial Issues”  in Divorce and Family Mediation: Models, Techniques and Applications edited by Jay Folberg; and co-authored the chapter “Psychology and Divorce” in The Financial Handbook of Divorce, edited by Crumbley and Apostolou.