ABOUT

Designed from the front line of difficult systems.

The AdvoCat was founded by Ava Sanchez Neal to make the space before formal conflict more useful: clearer facts, visible concerns, proportionate options and better human decisions.

AVA SANCHEZ NEAL

Resolution practice before technology.

Ava is a former Tenancy Mediator and holds formal qualifications in alternative dispute resolution from Massey University, including mediation, conciliation and arbitration. She has more than two decades’ experience helping people navigate regulated systems where the facts are personal and the consequences matter.

NZ Licensed Immigration Adviser · IAA 200900809Employment Law Institute of New ZealandInternational Association of Privacy ProfessionalsNZ Law Society Legal Executive

Former governance roles

Former Trustee and Former Acting Chair of Graduate Women New Zealand.

Former Director of the Latin America New Zealand Business Council.

Former Director of the New Zealand Association for Migration and Investment.

Systems and assurance

PwC / Exemplar Global Lead Auditor in Integrated Management Systems training covering management-systems auditing, audit-team leadership, quality, environmental, occupational health and safety, and information-security systems. This is training, not an ISO certification claim.

Legal and communication

New Zealand Law Society Legal Executive and Media Training Academy training with international media trainer Pete Burdon.

The design conviction

Technology should not manufacture certainty or make disputes louder. It should help people clarify what happened, see what matters and preserve human agency at every consequential step.

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