Hi I'm
Attia
I am a negotiation and influence expert, former MIT faculty member, adjunct professor at the University of Michigan, and the founder of Attia Qureshi Consulting — where I have spent two decades helping leaders, teams, and organizations negotiate better outcomes in every room they walk into.
My work spans Fortune 500 boardrooms, classrooms, and conflict zones around the world, where I have worked on behalf of the U.S. State Department in some of the most complex environments imaginable. I bring the same framework — principled, interest-based, and relentlessly human — to every context.
And I wrote Never Settle — published by Simon & Schuster and endorsed by Robert Cialdini, Daniel Pink, Chris Voss, and Eric Barker — because I wanted to put everything I've learned into the hands of anyone who's ever walked away from a conversation thinking: I should have asked for more.
My Mission
& Vision
I never planned to make negotiation my life's work.
Then I learned you don't have to push harder to get more. You can lead with warmth and be the person everyone wants to say yes to — and still advocate for yourself.
Influence isn't a personality trait. It's a skill — and every person can learn it.
That insight lit a fire that hasn't gone out.
The gap between the life you have and the life you want is almost always a negotiation, and you have the power to close that gap. I'm here to help you use that power.
I live in northern Michigan with my husband and son, whose family has been farming cherries and apples on the Old Mission Peninsula for seven generations. They keep me grounded (literally).
I've negotiated in every setting around the world. The opponent I still haven't cracked? The Michigan weather. And my two year old son. They have yet to cooperate.
