Negotiation consulting, training and coaching
David C. van der Griend
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David C. van der Griend
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Co-founder, supervisory board since 2021
David C. van der Griend co-founded the first student negotiation club in the Netherlands in 2018 and the Dutch Negotiation Network in 2021, and has served on the network's supervisory board since then.
The network is a non-profit for students and young professionals in the Netherlands who want to develop as negotiators. It supports student negotiation clubs at Dutch universities, organises the Dutch Negotiation Open and offers the Negotiation Fellowship Programme.
The club at the University of Twente was the first student negotiation club in the Netherlands. Its growth led to the founding of the Dutch Negotiation Network in 2021.
Negotiation Project Twente reached the final of The Negotiation Challenge, the international student competition, and finished second in both years.
The network was founded to connect and support the student negotiation clubs across the Netherlands. David C. van der Griend co-founded it and has served on its supervisory board since then.
Negotiation Project Twente won the Warsaw Negotiation Round, in 2021 and again in 2023.
Rotterdam's student negotiation club started. It restarted in 2026.
The network ran a series of negotiation workshops for students of TU Delft.
Two more student negotiation clubs joined the network, in Amsterdam and in Maastricht. David C. van der Griend was closely involved in setting up both.
Negotiation Project Twente won The Negotiation Challenge, hosted that year at the University of Twente, and with it the title Global Negotiation Champions.
The network's national negotiation competition for students started in 2024. David C. van der Griend judged the first edition and, in 2026, co-wrote the two competition cases and built the judges' scoring tools.
The second edition of the national student competition ran over three days, sponsored by Philips.
A team from Negotiation Project Maastricht won the ELSA Negotiation Competition.
The network ran a qualifying round of the Warsaw Negotiation Round in Amsterdam, with the organisers from Warsaw. Negotiation Project Amsterdam won it.
The Fellowship trains a small group of students to start and run a negotiation club at their own university. He co-founded it, led the first cohort in 2026 and redesigned the curriculum for 2026/27.
The combination of real-world cases, deep theory, and exceptional instructors made it a super valuable experience.
Delft's student negotiation club started, the fifth in the network.
The boards of the network and of its student projects spent a day together in Amsterdam.
Workshops for the student negotiation clubs in Delft and Rotterdam and for the Negotiation Fellowship Programme in Utrecht.
The network's podcast, co-hosted with Melvin Willems. Guests come from fields such as business, diplomacy, policing and mediation.
Listen on SpotifyQuestions about the Fellowship, the student negotiation clubs and the Dutch Negotiation Open.
