Aaron Zeman

Mediator credentialed by the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association

Practitioner Mediator · Texas Mediator Credentialing Association

Aaron B. Zeman is a mediator credentialed by the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association and received a Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution from SMU’s Simmons School and is a member of the American Arbitration Association. Aaron established Oak Cliff Conflict Management Group (OCCM) in 2022. OCCM seeks to provide mediation and conflict coaching to communities under-served by traditional Dispute Resolution practitioners. Aaron was born in Pecos, TX, but he “grew-up” in Pecos, Lubbock, Pecos (again), Fredericksburg, Temple, Belton, College Station, San Antonio, and Dallas. As the product of a contentious divorce, bad mediation is something with which Aaron is familiar and understands how much wasted time and energy we can devote to issues that do not really matter. Aaron’s “vida loca” taught him to appreciate that conflict can be a creative force, and that endings are not always bad. Aaron received a degree in Business Management from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX in 2007. He worked in corporate benefits consulting and employee compensation analysis for over a decade before returning to school. He began his graduate studies at the University of Dallas in Irving, TX in 2018 where he completed his studies in Psychology in 2020. Aaron finished his Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX in 2023. Aaron Zeman is a doctoral student at SMU’s Simmons School of Education and Human Development, studying historical responses to shared trauma, from a conflict engagement perspective. Aaron lives with his partner in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas. Aaron is a volunteer and board member of The Stewpot, a mission of First Presbyterian Church of Dallas, which provides critical services to those experiencing homelessness. Aaron serves as a visitor guide at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. He is also an active supporter of Dallas’s Resource Center, which serves LGBTQIA+ and HIV/AIDS communities in Dallas-Fort-Worth. He also established Bertram-Zeman, LLC in 2022 and provides employee compensation analysis and internal dispute mitigation system design and consulting services. Primary Counties of focus: Dallas County, Tarrant County, Brazos County, and Reeves County, Texas.