Family Businesses
Mediation is especially effective in addressing the particular opportunities and challenges presented by family businesses. Family dynamics can reflect tensions that arise from events that occurred long ago and reactions to them, as well as inevitable change as family members mature, marry, retire, and change their personal priorities. The success, even the viability, of the business can be placed in jeopardy by family conflict.
Mediation and consulting to assist productive communications can help families and their businesses to grapple with difficult issues that will do harm to both if they are ignored or if some involved feel that their interests have been overlooked or unfairly undervalued.