David C. van der Griend

David C. van der Griend helps organisations and professionals prepare important negotiations. He sees negotiation as a way to reduce unnecessary conflict and reach better outcomes together.

At FP&P, a Dutch consultancy in negotiation, leadership and coaching, he advises organisations on commercial negotiation strategy, trains negotiators and coaches professionals on the patterns and beliefs that shape how they negotiate.

His PhD research at Reykjavik University's Department of Business and Economics examines how organisations remember what they learn in negotiations.

He co-founded the Dutch Negotiation Network, sits on its supervisory board and co-founded its Negotiation Fellowship Programme, which trains students to start and run a negotiation club at their own university. At the University of Twente he co-founded the student negotiation club Negotiation Project Twente and taught in the Great Negotiators honours programme.

In 2026 he spoke at the Warsaw Negotiation Conference, was an expert at the Warsaw Negotiation Round and chaired a session at the European Negotiation Conference, Sciences Po, Paris. He co-hosts the podcast The Art of the Ask.