Lucia Kanter St. Amour

Under the Sisterhood

UTS is a social impact company that addresses the critical gaps in women’s health education, diagnosis, and treatment. As CLO, I'm responsible for: legal guidance on general business operations, partnerships, and organizational practices; contract review and negotiation with vendors and partners; policy development ensuring legal, ethical, and privacy compliance; risk awareness and mitigation; recommending practical strategies that project the organization’s integrity and vision; addressing potential legal issues related to employment and board members; liaising and supervising outside counsel; partnering with cross-functional teams to effectively communicate the organization’s mission, support its programs, and amplify its social justice initiatives.

Chief Legal Officer

Pactum Factum

Chief Legal/Negotiation Officer for various corporations, NCAA athletes, and organizations; U.S. mediation liaison to Supreme Court of India 2022-2023; have mediated/negotiated 1000+ cases; host of "Forces of Good" podcast. Seasoned employment law and negotiation expert. Pactum Factum Press publishing.

Attorney | CLO | Publisher

UN Women

VP, San Francisco  - the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. UN Women USA is the official, membership-based non-profit organization that raises funds and awareness for UN Women, the United Nations agency that advances gender equality and female empowerment globally.  Events and projects include: Cities for CEDAW a nationwide, grassroots effort to encourage local governments to become more gender equitable; EVAW - an effort to End Violence Against Women; The Gender Equal Pay coalition; HeForShe, a social movement campaign providing a systematic approach and targeted platform through which men and boys become agents of change for the achievement of gender equality; Women In Climate Change Gender Action Plan; Bi-annual Global Voices Film Festival

Vice President - UN Women USA

Spectrum Strategies for Autism

501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing sibling programming; and rescue dog matching, placement and training to families with children with Autism and other special needs.

University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)

Teaching:  Negotiation / Mediation Clinic / Mediation Certification for Professionals / Special Education  Law. 2003-2012 taught regular course(s) on-site each semester. I tried to retire, but noooooo. They wouldn't let me 😂 2013-present continue on faculty as hybrid (remote and on-site) coach and instructor

Law Professor (Adj.)

International Chamber of Commerce

Serving as judge and mediator for ICC mediation competition in Paris, France

Mediator and Judge

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

Teaching Negotiation practical skills course and supervising independent studies

Lecturer

EEOC

One of the small team of original designers of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s pilot mediation program in 1996 for the San Francisco Regional Office, and later mediated EEOC cases from San Jose to Sacramento

Mediator

Judicial Council of California

In-house employment law attorney for the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), the policymaking body for the entire California court system for 58 counties and the Supreme Court of California. I advised the Judicial Council, the Chief Justice of California, and trial and appellate court judges and court officers, contributing to major policy and legal decisions on employment and labor issues that affect the entire judicial branch of California. During that time, I was also selected by the California Division for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) as a representative attorney for the judicial branch to conduct ongoing discrimination and harassment training through live, televised, satellite broadcast programming to court employees statewide. The target 20,000-member audience consisted of judges, human resources professionals, court directors and court staff. Broadcasting live with a studio audience, I also co-hosted CJER’s production of “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:  A Celebration of Justice,” as part of the Division’s Continuing The Dialogue television series. The content of many of the broadcasts drew upon expertise in the field of Civil Rights and various discrimination and fair employment laws.

Attorney - Office of the General Counsel

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Upon dissolution of boutique labor & employment firm in San Francisco, joined Orrick's Employment Law group and handled all aspects of litigation and client counseling. Closest clients I worked with included Gap, Apple, Oracle, Electronic Arts

Employment Litigation Attorney

VP Emerita UN Women | Attorney Action Figure 🦸🏻‍♀️ | Arresting Author | Chief Negotiation Officer | Plucky Podcast Host | Irreverent Int'l Keynote | "What Box?" Bellwether

📚 World domination through literary seduction. Elegant. Defiant. Irresistibly true. Are you ready for what's next (October 13, 2025)? MY WRITING IS ORGANIC USING REAL INTELLIGENCE (AI wishes it could write like me)

I'm not bossy. I'm BOSS. A UN Women VP, provocatrice, attorney/law professor turned negotiation GOAT . . .

(Buckle up. This is ..."a lot")

🦸🏻‍♀️ I help women harness the power of everyday negotiation—from conning a toddler into eating peas to running the boardroom. I authored the Little Black Dress of negotiation books. Why?

Because negotiation isn’t just for business. It’s everybody’s business 🧐

(But you don’t need me to “empower” you. Nor do I sell a “masterclass” or certification from my own “institute”)

🌍 World Mediation Peace Activist. Benevolent & incurable explorer (dubbed “creative savant”—you know who you are). A bit wild at ❤️‍🔥, I struggle with purpose and disrupt with goodwill—through advocacy, teaching, writing, broadcasting, philanthropy, art & sports.

🗣️ Polyglot. Passionate about people & social progress. JEDI agent (not a Star Wars ref). I’ve practiced law in private, public & non-profit sectors; have taught internationally, including over two decades as faculty at two University of California law schools.

I get that people are messy multitudes—and how they actually behave in conflict & decision-making.
What makes me next-level? Decades of deep experience in negotiation, behavioral economics, game theory, plus dope training in:

✔️ Emotional micro-expressions
✔️ Lie detection
✔️ Neuroscience & decision analysis

Oh, and I know the #1 most stealth negotiation skill. 😎

(Kinda like x-ray vision. Hint: it’s NOT “speaking your truth.”)

WHAT I’M NOT:

❌ A sales/marketing bro who built my expertise off a “masterclass”
❌ A brand
❌ Your income stream
❌ After your 💰 or approval
❌ One to trademark words. Ahem™ 🙄 (you know the type)

Special needs parent & dog whisperer—chaos doesn’t faze me, and persistence is my default setting. CEO of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing dogs & sibling support for families with special needs kids.

🫶 Turn-ons: Cake, shoes, pour-over coffee, decent literature
🤢 Turn-offs: NIMBYism, vapid buzzwords, elitism, posers

💡 Meyers-Briggs type? ENFJ-A (same 2% club as Obama & Oprah).

🕸️See more on pactumfactum.com, but TLDR: 
I’m 95% human Labrador (begs the question: what’s the other 5%?). Find it endearing or annoying. That's on you. Either way, I’ll be me because, as Oscar Wilde said, “Everyone else is taken.”

P.S.
❌ I don’t do casual Zoom coffee chats
✅ I’ve already overpaid it forward

Podcast Host

"Forces of Good" podcast - Click here to listen and subscribe for free: https://pactumfactum.substack.com

S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour

IGBF Coaching

With coaching you can reach Confidence. Say goodbye to feeling stuck or lost in your emotions.
We'll use self-development tools and research based approaches to growth 💪 and fulfilment 🔅

Certified Life Coach and Visual Identity Consultant

MDPI

- Facilitated communication between Editorial team, Production and authors daily (Serbia, China, UK)
- Top performer Assistant Editor twice: 15+ papers published monthly - increasing company revenue by 48.000 CHF
- Delivered for 3 major journals of MDPI: Sustainability, Forests and Religions
- Read, edited and ethically evaluated manuscripts submitted for publication

Assistant Editor

Thomsons Online Benefits

Simplified difficult software processes to everyday users
Mentored new joiners per year: emphasized learning from mistakes and establishing solid foundation for progress
Implemented changes to client documentation - gathered needed data from 3 departments
Analyzed reports: fact checked and compared software errors
Delivered trimestrial client trainings for new joiners + specialists
Designed and implemented work-flow visuals for team after GDPR policy

Client Support Specialist

Client Support Associate

BIOTOX SRL

Managed deliverables for 2 projects:
1. Standardized Indicators for Comparing Alternative Methods to Animal Testing
Delivered feasibility study on based on project indicators
Coordinated meetings: France, Italy, Switzerland, Romania
Crafted reports, presentations and articles using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
Shared project findings at international conference
2. Guide + Database of Available Education and Training Courses + Resources for Alternative Methods to Animal Experimentation
Crafted report from: project records, databases and digital resources
Coded and verified data in accordance with specified research protocol and coding procedures
Conducted quantitative analysis on assigned data
Disseminated research data to key stakeholders on 3 major websites based on grant rules.

Research Assistant

Cluj Napoca County  Emergency Hospital 

Researcher/ Analyst 
Elaborates necessary documentation for institute projects and contributes to overall project-oriented tasks.
• Writing and Verbal Communication: spoke effectively with Turkish and other foreign senior researchers in meetings for negotiating possible clinical trial collaboration between the 2 hospitals’ neurology departments;
• Managing projects: led, coordinated, synchronized and scheduled meetings between project members working from various institutions and locations
• Analysis and Preparation scientific materials and data: Successfully worked with 20 of the center’s staff members in order to translate, edit and collect documents (ex: personal paperwork, resumes) needed for institute projects.

LC Learning and Consulting

Copywriter
Writes, edits and creates advertorial content in the form of texts or visuals in a range of media and formats.

• Research Skills: Performed competitor analyses that helped determine strengths and weaknesses of the firms’ marketing strategy at that time: compared competitors’ ads popularity, community engagement and visuals. 
• Social Networking Sites Management: Wrote content for the company blog, administered Facebook page and added improvements to firms’ website in order to improve brand awareness.
• Detailed oriented: Designed a digital market campaign on Facebook that was tailored to the data collected from competitors as well as page audience.

Copywriter

TunisAid (AIESEC TUNISIA) 

In charge of educational activities with children at The Bab Saadoun Children's Hospital. Volunteers were responsible for teaching kids English and French, as well as assisting therapists in activities such as music therapy and art therapy. Another part of the project was the renovation of schools in villages next to Tunisia’s capital. The program lasted for 6 weeks.

 English Teacher 2015 (Tunis, Tunisia)

The Sustainable Diplomacy Initiative, Bucharest - Camden

The Sustainable Diplomacy Initiative is an international program that promotes international multi-cultural collaboration as the most effective way to improve relationships between nations. 
Main tasks were organizing events and activities designed to improve the cultural experience of students enrolled in the Work and Travel program.

Member of The Sustainable Diplomacy Initiative 

THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICIES

• Communication and Teamwork: Supported team with daily tasks, effectively communicating with members in writing and verbally in order to complete tasks.
• Occupational Health Research: Took charge of data introduction and verification, translation from English into Romanian of promotional flyers, reviewing and adding adjustments to grant proposals and identifying the most relevant articles in the Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs journal.
• Data Collection: Performed data collection activities: development and validation of questionnaires regarding occupational health within a Romanian hospital. Collected data from Romanian kindergartens and schools.

Research Intern (Occupational Health Department)

Soo happy that you're here, welcome!

My clients are high-achieving women who have 
almost everything they ever wanted and they "should" be happy, but aren't.


If you are between 25 and 35, and relate to any of these, follow along.

* You "should" be confident but deep within, you are not.

* You "should" be grateful" but you want more.

* You've taken all the right steps up until now and 
you did all the "right" things but the life you have,

(which many would love) does not feel right for you.

* You feel broken and isolated

I'm here to tell you,
You. Are. Not.

and you are not alone.


If you often feel inadequate, confused about where life is and where it "should" be If you're crippled by self-doubt and if there's a constant fear of failure on top of all of that,
you're in good company. 


And coaching can help you with all of that and MORE.

Through coaching you will get:

1. Direction and Focus
2. Action Steps
3. New Skills
4. Self-awarness
5. Confidence

And you will learn how to say NO. Lovingly

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The Battle

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