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The vast majority of conflicts submitted to mediation are resolved to the mutual satisfaction of all parties within one or a few sessions. Not only is this is a golden opportunity to resolve potential legal problems before they turn into expensive lawsuits. It is an informal forum in which to learn and mine the nuggets of wisdom and opportunity that are inherent in conflict situations of all kinds.

Decision-Making Control is Yours
Resolution is achieved by agreement, rather than by decision of an outsider, whether judge or arbitrator. You retain control over vital business decisions. A durable agreement, which is voluntarily binding and enforceable, meets the needs and interests of the parties concerned. You minimize the need for subsequent revision or costs of enforcement. And in the unlikely event that a disputed matter cannot be resolved by mediation, you retain all rights to litigate or arbitrate.

Low Risk / High Benefit
Mediation helps you optimize your use of valuable resources in resolving conflict: money, time, information, and business relationships. The process is confidential, private, and arranged to suit the needs of the parties. You can use your own business and legal advisors effectively to help you reach and review a mediated agreement.

Beata C. Lewis brings mediation expertise in:

Workplace and employment
General business
International business
Joint ventures
Partnership dissolution
Public policy and environmental
Bankruptcy *
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)**

Beata Lewis is a Certified Panel Member of:
*U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Northern District of California
**Federal Department of Justice program for mediation of disputes under the ADA

Since 1996 Beata has offered specialized professional development programs for conflict resolution, collaboration and leadership. She is frequently asked to assist with ongoing mediation training programs offered by other professional mediators (e.g. Steve Rosenberg Mediation).

What makes better business sense:
an ounce of prevention or a pound of cure?

Conflict Resolution in the workplace:
Move toward higher performance and collaborative capacity.

Experience the benefits of ongoing guidance for collaborative excellence that makes a difference, goes to the heart of the difficulty and is reliable, flexible, and timely.

Coaching and Consulting:
Invest in the success of your leaders and collaborative ventures. Create a context for deep organizational learning and invite healthy individual, workgroup and organizational change.

Leadership Coaching
Guidance in Collaborative Excellence
Group Meeting/Retreat Design and Facilitation
Conflict Reconciliation and Mediation

Programs:
Programs can be an effective way to launch long-term support and interventions. They offer the possibility of using measurement instruments for quantitative and qualitative data to benchmark and understand the group experience and make credible, informed choices about next steps.

Leading from Center
Meeting the Challenge
Trust in Leadership
emBODY-INg Conflict Transformation