John Buelow

Adjunct Instructor

B.A., Providence College;
M.S., Johns Hopkins University

John Buelow is the Executive Vice President of Product Development for the Shapiro Negotiations Institute (SNI) in Baltimore, MD. John consults with Fortune 500 companies to develop creative, customized solutions to establish negotiations skills as a core competency. He has designed systems to assess business processes and culture to maximize the impact of training and consulting engagements with SNI.

John’s career began in 1988 as a Special Education Teacher at the New England Center for Autism in Southborough MA and at NYNEX Information Resources Company a Manager in Labor Relations. This teaching and negotiating experience is reflected in his course design and positive approach to classroom facilitation.

John relocated to New York City to work in sales with the Allegis Group. He established the Telecommunications Training Center program where over 300 unemployed technicians updated their technical skills and were placed at companies throughout the metro NY/NJ region. In 1995 John accepted a position with Allegis as a Training Director and over the next seven years he developed and delivered sales, leadership and management training to over 10,000 Allegis employees.

In 2002, John joined Sylvan University, the training and development organization for Sylvan Learning Centers. Under his direction, Sylvan University increased training output over 300% and increased customer satisfaction with SLC training by 29%. John also successfully introduced a distance learning strategy for re-certifying Sylvan’s full time staff across the United States and Canada. 

John holds a B.A. in psychology from Providence College and a Master’s in Organizational Development and Human Resources from the Johns Hopkins University. In 2005, he presented The Direct Path to Training ROI, a white paper at the World Negotiations Forum in New York.

John lives with his wife and his two children in Bel Air, Maryland.

Phone: 443-414-5347
E-mail: john_buelow@comcast.net