About us.
Wægger Negotiation Institute – WNI is a private consulting company that provides negotiation and conflict management training, advising and mediation, to businesses, to the public, and non-profit organizations.
Your trusted advisor.
At Wægger Negotiation Institute, our mission is to empower our clients to achieve better outcomes with the use of effective and systematic preparation and planning for their negotiation or mediation. This will lead to more opportunities, stronger trust, better confidence, and more value creation.
Our experience spans corporate and commercial negotiations, contract discussions, multi-party dialogues, cross-cultural engagements, workplace mediations, interpersonal dynamics, and long-time influence work to position yourself to get more of what YOU want.
At the heart of our approach is the belief that emotional intelligence, systematic preparation and planning, a structured process, and strategic engagement are the key components that lead to more favorable outcomes. Through our interactive training programs and advisory services, we guide our clients to create more in every negotiation they undertake.
Rely on us as YOUR TRUSTED ADVISOR to unlock the full potential of negotiations – where emotional intelligence + planning + process + strategic engagement equals more of what YOU want.
Team & Advisors.
Roar Thun Wægger
Founder & CEO
Roar is a facilitator, advisor, and mediator.
He is a Harvard PON’s and Pepperdine Straus’ Institute trained negotiator, mediator, and conflict resolution specialist.
He is also a Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI) Accredited Civil/Commercial Mediator, a certified UK civil/commercial mediator, and a certified mediator by the Norwegian Bar Association.
Passion Vista Magazine has named Roar a “Global Icon 2022“
Christopher Olsson Loenes
Facilitator
Christopher is a facilitator, advisor, and mediator.
He is a law graduate from the University of Oslo, with a specialization in negotiations and conflict resolution. He’s won several prestigious negotiation and mediation competitions. He is also experienced in conducting workshops and lectures in the fields of negotiations and mediations.
Christopher is a mediator at the Norwegian Rent Dispute Tribunal. He has mediated over 190 cases in a wide field of legal areas and have solved 8 out 10 cases (per March 2024).
He is also a Certified Mediator by International Mediation Institute (IMI) and Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI).
Venera Kusari
Facilitator
Venera Kusari is a peacebuilding professional with 10+ years of experience as peace and conflict practitioner, researcher, trainer, and manager of projects in the field of humanitarian, human rights, and social development.
Venera has moved to Myanmar and has been the Executive Director at the American University of Yangon since October 2023.
She holds a graduate degree in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University in New York City, and she has experience working for organizations such as International Crisis Group, Mercy Corps International, UN Women, European Centre for Minority Issues, Committee to Protect Journalists, and at Columbia University’s conflict research institute, AC4.
She has supervised international projects on minority rights, youth and urban violence, crisis response, and intercommunal conflict, across former Yugoslavia, Colombia, Myanmar, the United States, and Norway.
Venera’s research interests focus on the complex dynamics in conflict, communication and conflict, power asymmetries, and approaches to sustainable peace. She is interested in understanding these themes at the interpersonal, intercommunal, as well as international levels. Her analysis focuses on critical approaches to conflict, narrative, and dialogue. She works with ethnic and religious minority groups, women, youth, and professionals from various fields.
She is an experienced facilitator-trainer and has led numerous workshops with various stakeholders in several countries.
Venera is committed and passionate about influencing positive change through her work in personal and social development. She believes that social change starts by creating spaces that promote constructive communication and equality-based practices within organized units such as workplaces, families, communities, and political institutions.
