Gregorio Billikopf (born September 23, 1954 in Santiago, Chile) is a mediator, author, and since 1981, a farm advisor specializing in labor management for the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The inst ...

. In May 2005, Billikopf accepted a visiting faculty appointment as an honorary professor of agricultural labor management at the

University of Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

in Santiago. Billikopf is a frequent national and international speaker (including United States, as well as in Russia, México, Canada, Uganda, Colombia, Argentina, Spain, Japan, New Zealand and his native Chile) in his field. His agricultural extension research and teaching efforts have focused on such topics as employee selection, compensation, performance appraisal, discipline and termination, supervision, interpersonal relations, conflict resolution, and interpersonal negotiation skills. Billikopf is the recipient of the 1989 National Association for County Agricultural Agents (NACAA) Achievement Award and the 2006 Distinguished Service Award. He has received a number of other awards from NACAA, including two National Winner communication awards: Webpage in 1999 (Agricultural Labor Management); and Publication in 2006 (for his book Labor Management in Agriculture: Cultivating Personnel Productivity, 2nd Edition, 2003). Billikopf's maternal family have been grape growers in Chile for generations. It is at the labor-intensive family vineyard, where Gregorio spent much of his youth, that he first developed an interest in labor issues, horses and agriculture. While doing a search in the internet, Billikopf found that this interest in conflict management also runs in the family. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Billikopf, is listed as a "notable arbitrator" whose writings are included in the Cornell University School of Industrial Relations' Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archive and elsewhere. On his Chilean side, he is related to historian Francisco Antonio Encina, author of Historia de Chile. Billikopf has authored numerous articles published in academic journals, several books including ''Labor Management in Agriculture'' (1994, 2003) and ''Party Directed Mediation: Facilitating Dialogue Between Individuals'' (3rd Edition, 2014), and portrays practical examples of Party-directed mediation an emerging specialty within the field of alternative dispute resolution. He presented his two mediation models, Party-directed mediation (PDM) and Negotiated Performance Appraisal (NPA), for dealing with peer to peer conflict and supervisor-subordinate conflict, respectively, at the International Association for Conflict Management ACMannual meetings in 2005 (Seville, Spain) and 2009 (Kyoto, Japan). Raised in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

's Central Valley, Billikopf went on to obtain his Bachelor of Science in

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from UC Davis, and his Master of Arts in labor management from

California State University, Stanislaus California State University, Stanislaus (Stanislaus State, Stan State) is a public university in Turlock, Stanislaus County, California. It is part of the California State University system. It was established in 1957 and is also the only cam ...

. Since his retirement from the University of California, Billikopf and his wife reside in

Llanquihue, Chile Llanquihue () is a Chilean commune and city in Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region. The city lies on the western shore of Lake Llanquihue, where the Maullín River starts. It is located north of Puerto Varas and south of Frutillar and is c ...

, in what is called the Lake Region, and are the parents of four children and a growing number of grandchildren. Special interests include activities as a dressage (equestrian sports) instructor, amateur radio operator, a soccer referee and a student of the Hebrew Holy Scriptures, especially Isaiah and the latter prophets (NEVI'M).''Isaiah Testifies of Christ''
– Gregorio Billikopf On his Jewish side, Gregorio is the grandson of Jacob Billikopf (involved in social work, Jewish philanthropy and labor arbitration) and great-grandson of

Louis Marshall Louis Marshall (December 14, 1856 – September 11, 1929) was an American corporate, constitutional and civil rights lawyer as well as a mediator and Jewish community leader who worked to secure religious, political, and cultural freedom for a ...

(corporate, constitutional and civil rights lawyer as well as a mediator and Jewish community leader). On his Chilean side, Gregorio is related to Francisco Antonio Encina, author of the 20 volume ''Historia de Chile''. In March 1974, after reading the

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, Billikopf became a member of

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Party-Directed Mediation: Facilitating Dialogue Between Individuals
by Gregorio Billikopf, free complete book PDF download, at the University of California (3rd Edition, posted 17 April 2014)
Party-Directed Mediation: Facilitating Dialogue Between Individuals
by Gregorio Billikopf, free complete book PDF download from Archive.org - various formats (3rd Edition, posted 17 April 2014)
Interpersonal Negotiation Skills
two-hour seminar by Gregorio Billikopf, 2013, guest speaker at California State University, Stanislaus, a summary of Chapter 4 of Party-Directed Mediation.

by Gregorio Billikopf, download hour lecture on MP3 files (15 files in zip folder), at the University of California (2009, Chapter 2 of Party-Directed Mediation).
Gregorio Billikopf, El Huasito - Revista Agricola - Osorno, Chile
Biographical article (2014) published by Revista Agricola, Diario Austral, in

after his return to Chile (IN SPANISH).
UC Berkeley.edu
– Gregorio "Uncle Moo" Billikopf {{DEFAULTSORT:Billikopf, Gregorio 1954 births California State University, Stanislaus alumni Chilean male writers Living people Agricultural writers University of California, Davis alumni

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