Grande Lum is Director of the HUBZone Program for the U.S. Small Business Administration. Most recently he was Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at UC Hastings Law School. In 2010 for the first time ever, CNDR was ranked as one of the top law school dispute programs in the country by US News and World Report. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School.

Grande has experience consulting on complex transactions, equipping individuals, teams and institutions with negotiation methodologies and skills. His work included mediation, coaching, and advising for clients in the health care, biotech, pharmaceutical, information technology, and financial services industries. He has facilitated internal and external negotiations; mediated labor-management disputes; and advised on partnering and alliances. Grande has developed an online learning module in negotiation, produced a video on multi-party negotiations and published a number of articles on dispute resolution. He is the author of The Negotiation Fieldbook, published by McGraw-Hill.

Grande was the founder and Managing Director of Accordence, a dispute resolution consulting and training firm. Prior to founding Accordence, he was a founding member of ThoughtBridge, a national mediation firm. He was a partner with the consulting firm Conflict Management, Inc, which was co-founded by Harvard Law School Professor and Getting to Yes co-author Roger Fisher. Grande was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School and has taught at Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley Law School.

He was recently appointed to the Board of Overseers of the Baldridge National Quality Program, an initiative of the US Department of Commerce, which annually awards the Malcolm Baldridge Award, the only presidential award for organizational performance excellence. Grande was vice-chair on the Board of Directors of the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center and has been an appointee on the California State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Association for Dispute Resolution - Northern California. Grande was a negotiation expert for Monster.com and was a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.