Aria Craig
Aria Craig
BESTSELLING & AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR | MEDIATOR
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From Author to Mediator
While trying to climb the corporate ladder, Aria decided to write about her personal journey - the rewards and challenges of co-parenting, childhood bullying, narcissistic relationships, and being an ambitious single mom.
However, she couldn't ignore the fact that she continued to have negative, toxic experiences from one workplace to the next, including bullying, insecure managers, microaggressions, and retaliation.
From there, Aria integrated her writing of personal family experiences with professional ones and decided to explore a mediation career in the legal industry. She also transformed her disappointment from the couple of bad workplace apples to building strategies for companies in the effort to value their employees.
More Articles and Interviews
Why We Tolerate Less Than We Deserve In Relationships
How To Recover From Dating A Narcissist
Sharing In A Marriage While Protecting A Man’s Feelings
How To Heal After A Painful Divorce
Why We Tolerate Less Than We Deserve In Relationships
Author Spotlight: Aria Craig
American Bar Association (ABA): How Bullying and Discrimination Intersect in the Workplace – And Why ADR is a Solution (must be a member to view)
American Bar Association (ABA): Workplace Bullying – A Case for Conflict and Dispute Resolution (must be a member to view)
EMPOWERMENT BOOKS for MOMS
Ebony Banks is an ambitious single mother with a wonderful job and eight-year-old son. She meets an intelligent and handsome man who she believes is the love of her life, that is until she notices a pattern of very odd behavior. What will she discover?
Follow the journey of Ebony Banks and how she persevered through emotional, psychological, and financial abuse of a toxic relationship with a narcissistic psychopath.
The Single Mother Diaries, Volume 1: Tips and Wisdom on Being a Fabulous and Successful Single Mother is a parenting investment tool that offers strategies for single, divorced and blended parents with tips on:
- Talking to your child about sex, bullying and drugs
- Successful co-parenting techniques
- Managing child support and visitation issues
- Encouraging and empowering your child’s talents
- Coaching your child in building valuable relationships and leadership abilities
- Training your child for his/her future
- Making wiser financial decisions
- Blended family dynamics
- And much more!
Being a working single parent comes with rewards and challenges. The key is being focused on achieving clear goals. The Single Mother Diaries, Volume 2: Tips and Wisdom on Being Career Savvy offers strategies and coaching on:
- Defining leadership and how to achieve leadership levels in Corporate America
- Having thick skin
- Distinguishing between a manager and a leader
- Their perception vs your reality
- Having the confidence to start your own business
- Balancing home and work
- Leaving a legacy for your children
- Defining success
- And much more!!
The perfect complement to The Single Mother Diaries, Volume 2 with steps on reaching your professional goals:
- Action Plans
- Steps for promotion readiness
- Starting your own business
- And much more!!
EMPOWERMENT BOOKS for KIDS
Love is Here, Love is There: My Co-Parents
There is finally a children’s book that demonstrates the effective co-parenting strategies that families can create to successfully raise children together.
Sam and Dad go on a fun adventure together when Sam starts to realize that his family is different from others he encounters. Curious, he asks Dad about his family dynamics. After a heart-felt talk from Dad who explains that even though Mom and Dad live in two separate homes, they both work together to make sure he is the best Sam he can be, Sam begins to understand.
This visually stunning illustration helps kids and parents develop:
- Team work
- Self-esteem
- Empowerment
- And more!
Aria also speaks on these various topics, including how parents can work together to co-parent successfully.
Bubbles the Beautiful Butterfly and The Bully that Chloe Conquers
From the creative mind of Bestselling and Award-winning Author, Aria Craig, comes a children’s book for girls and boys who struggle with the pressures of bullying and the impact it has on their self-esteem.
10-year old Chloe is a beautiful girl with a very unique smile who lives with her loving parents and dog, Snuffles. However, her mom and dad are unaware that when Chloe heads off to school she is hurtfully teased because of her smile and deals with the struggles kids face when bullied. Chloe handles it in a way that most kids do until a student tests her courage. On that day, she meets Bubbles the Beautiful Butterfly, who empowers her with tools to build confidence and conquer the bullies. Bubbles the Beautiful Butterfly and The Bully that Chloe Conquers is a powerful children’s book that touches on:
- Self-esteem
- Empowerment
- Encouragement
- Confidence
- Bravery
Bubbles the Beautiful Butterfly Activity Book – full of word games, mazes, hide-and-seek, puzzles and more.
Have fun with Bubbles as she goes on journeys and adventures with other animals!
MEDIATION SERVICES
Evening and weekend hours available for the
flexibility of clients.
Employment Mediator
Have you filed (or considering filing) a lawsuit against your employer? Whether you are retained by an attorney or suing Pro Se, an employment mediator is an important resource for settling the dispute.
By the time disputes have escalated to complaints filed with the EEOC or civil courts, both parties are looking to settle the dispute expeditiously and avoid litigation. Mediation creates a safe space for parties to come to a reasonable resolution at the facilitation of a neutral. It saves time, money, emotional stress, and embarrassment.
Contact In Agreement Dispute Resolution to learn more about Employment Mediation services that are skillful, impartial and confidential.
Evening and weekend hours available for the
flexibility of clients.
Family Mediator
Need a trained professional to help mediate the conflict between you and your ex in a divorce settlement? What about a family business? Book below to get the support of a Family Mediator without the high cost of an attorney.
Conflict resolution areas include:
- Divorce, alimony, and property
- Parenting Plans
- Child support
- Property inheritance
- Family Business
Workplace Stress
How does each of these workplace factors create stress, anxiety, and low-grade depressions...and what can you do as employee or employer?
Specific focus areas include:
- Micromanaging
- Unfair treatment
- Stifling potential
- Burnout
- Lack of leadership
- Bullying, Pt 1
- Bullying, Pt 2
- Bullying, Pt 3
About Me
Herschenia A. Brown (PEN “Aria Craig”) is an Employment Mediator, External Ombudsman, Corporate Consultant, FINRA Arbitrator, Board Certified Integrative Mental Health Coach, Speaker, and Bestselling and Award-Winning Author of The Single Mother Diaries™.
While working on establishing the brand for her own brand, Aria spent some of her free time writing books under the PEN Name Aria Craig, which earned her awards and placed her on the Amazon bestseller’s list in five parenting categories. Her books build bravery, resilience, and empowerment for moms struggling with the stressors of being single, divorced, or in a blended marriage; as well as children dealing with social issues.
She is an advocate against workplace bullying and family narcissism relationships (parent, sibling, or spouse). She serves on the following associations:
Advisory Board for the National Workplace Bullying Coalition
Tri-Chair of Programming for the Federal Bar Associations, ADR Section
American Bar Association, DR Section – Employment Mediation, Women in Dispute Resolution, & Diversity Committees
Member of the International Ombuds Association (IOA)
Lambda Kappa Mu, Sorority, Inc.
