Richard M. Reilly
Rick Reilly is a consultant and Adjunct Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution. For 30 years he was an integral part of the American Arbitration Association both here in New England and nationally as a Senior Vice President of Labor and Insurance, traveling the country helping arbitrators and parties settle cases. He was also the AAA liaison with the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA), the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) and the Association of Labor Relations Agencies (ALRA).

Mr. Reilly holds degrees from Fordham University, St John's University and most recently from Boston College. He has served as the President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (1985) and in New England as President of the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) (1984-85), and the Fordham University Alumni Association. Mr. Reilly has also served on the Advisory Boards of the Catholic Labor Guild of Boston, the Massachusetts Association of Mediation Programs, as well as Chair of the New England Society of Association Executives.

He has received awards from the Archdioceses of Boston, City of New York, the Canadian Institute of Conflict Resolution, Esquire Magazine, American Liver Foundation and Providence College. Mr. Reilly received the Mary Parker Follett Award from SPIDR (now Association for Conflict Resolution) in 2000 for excellence and innovation in dispute resolution. He was also the first recipient of the Mediation Communities Pioneer Award, awarded by the New England branch of SPIDR, for his work in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Mr. Reilly is an Army Veteran (cook), and has served as a member of Big Brothers, a tennis umpire at the U.S. Open, and algebra teacher. He has run over 42 marathons. Mr. Reilly represented the USA in the Goodwill Games Marathons in both the Soviet Union and the United States. He took an early retirement from the AAA to spend more time with his two preschool children, which allowed him to work as Daddy Day Care. Demonstrating a firm belief in life-long learning, he went back to school and received a Masters Degree in Administrative Studies from Boston College in May 2003.