Rachel Kohman, Ed.D.
Rachel Kohman, Ed.D., is the Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Education at Missouri S&T, where she leads initiatives that strengthen organizational growth through collaborative environments, high impact training, and strategic program development. With more than a decade of experience, she has built a diverse portfolio spanning adaptive leadership training, student program design, course creation, public speaking, and organizational operations. A resourceful and results driven leader, Rachel is known for aligning people, processes, and strategy while maintaining strong operational integrity.
As an adaptive leadership speaker and facilitator, she empowers individuals to lead effectively without relying on formal authority. Her approach blends practical methods with real world scenarios, helping audiences develop the confidence, resilience, and initiative needed to navigate complexity. Rachel’s engaging, dynamic style fosters authentic leadership growth, grounded in the belief that everyone has the capacity to lead—and her work centers on unlocking that potential in every room she enters.
Chantal Fink Mehill, JD
Chantal Fink Mehill represents clients in a wide range of construction matters, including contract negotiations, early dispute resolution, arbitration, and litigation. She has represented owners, general contractors, subcontractors, designers, and other construction industry clients on a regional and national level. She also has experience representing businesses in contractual, lending, employment, and real estate matters. She has experience in all phases of litigation, from discovery and depositions, to preparing witnesses and trying a case to judgment. Outside the litigation arena, Chantal frequently performs pre-project risk review for client construction contracts. She has crafted several custom construction contracts to suit the needs of clients on a multi project or single project basis.
In addition to her work within the firm, Chantal is active member of several professional organizations, including the Lawyer’s Association of St. Louis, the AGC Service Supplier Council, the ABA Forum on Construction, and the Missouri Consortium for Construction Innovation. Chantal has presented on construction related topics on several occasions, including most recently at the 2025 ABA Forum on Construction Law Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, where she presented on Construction Management at Risk. Her paper on the topic was recently published in the ABA Construction Lawyer Journal. Chantal was been recognized for her professional and community contributions by being named part of the Missouri Lawyers Media's Up & Coming class of 2017, as well as being selected to serve as the Trial Academy Co-Chair for the ABA Forum on Construction.
Michael E. Wilson
https://www.ubglaw.com/michael-e-wilson
Through the years, Mike has served as an arbitrator in several cases. He also believes mediation is a sound and usually prudent method for effectively resolving claims and disputes and has represented multiple construction industry clients in mediation. Mike is well qualified to serve as a mediator, having completed 32 hours of mediation training conducted by the University of Missouri School of Law. With more than 45 years handling design and construction matters, he is well positioned to address, evaluate, and resolve claims and disputes.
Sound advice regarding dispute resolution is a priority of Mike's practice, but when necessary, he has prosecuted and defended claims for delay and disruption damages, mechanic’s liens, payment and performance bonds, construction or design defects, contract termination, insurance coverage, indemnity, and contract sum and change order recovery. He has represented clients in federal and state courts, federal boards of contract appeals, mediations and arbitration proceedings across the United States, as well as handled design or construction matters for projects outside the United States. Mike has presented at seminars and written articles on construction law topics including construction industry contracts, mechanic’s liens, insurance, indemnity, surety bonds, and claims.
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