Stanford is a facilitator, organizational and life coach.  He is  the director of development of the Deep Democracy Institute, an NGO dedicated to training individuals, groups, and organizations in leadership development, community building, organizational change, and conflict facilitation. He is also the former director of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, an international conflict resolution NGO in Washington, DC, chaired by US Ambassador John McDonald, and a member and former director of the Global Process Institute, an international network of process oriented psychologists involved in conflict facilitation, dialogue, and trauma healing.

He has prior experience as a sales and marketing manager, quality improvement process facilitator, military intelligence analyst, and has previously worked in numerical systems development projects for surgical and satellite applications.

Stanford is a Certified Process Work Diplomate through the process work institute and a candidate for PhD in the psychology of conflict. Stanford’s doctoral dissertation is on the psychology of conflict and the relationship between our inner experience and community, organizational, and global conflict.