The Conflict Manager is a monthly journal addressing a wide variety of issues of concern to family businesses.

Our prime focus is on managing the inherent conflicts that families face when owning or working together.  The journal speaks to concerns we hear from our colleagues and clients about issues related to managing succession, working together, governance, and general conflict in family businesses. 

    CURRENTLY

    • September 2010
      Doug Baumoel will be presenting at the Wharton Club of Boston on September 16th hosted by Burns & Levinson. This is a closed event.

      Doug Baumoel will be leading the meeting of the New England Chapter of the Family Firm Institute as Chapter President on September 23, 2010. Pramodita Sharma, Ph.D. will be presenting, "Professionalization and the Family Business". MORE
    • October 2010
      Doug Baumoel will be attending the FFI Annual Conference in Chicago.The current release of the Thomson/West Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Guide has a new chapter written by Douglas Baumoel, founder of Continuity Family Business Consulting: Managing Family Business Conflict: A Collaborative Approach

      The chapter examines the deep seated, systemic nature of family business conflict and the complicating factor of the continuing relationships which matter so fundamentally.
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    NEWS

    • July 2010
      Doug Baumoel was quoted as a leading professional in the July 9th edition of the Boston Business Journal in an article on how family businesses are dealing with the recession.
    • June 2010
      Doug Baumoel was nominated as a judge for the 'Northeastern University Center for Family Business – Massachusetts Family Business of the Year Awards'

      Doug Baumoel led the meeting of the New England Chapter of the Family Firm Institute as Chapter President. Ivan Lansberg, Ph.D. presented, "To Rule or to Govern? Leadership, Structures and Governance in Family Business".

      Doug Baumoel was selected for the Boston Advisory Committee of the Family Firm Institute to help plan for the Oct. 2011 international conference
    • May 2010
      Doug Baumoel and Blair Trippe presented "If I'd Only Known...: Lessons from the Trenches of a Family Business in Conflict" at Northeastern University for Family Business.
    • March 2010
      Doug Baumoel led the meeting of the New England Chapter of the Family Firm Institute as Chapter President. Frank Hoy, Ph.D. presented, "Entrepreneurship in Family Business."

      Blair Trippe and Doug Baumoel presented "Managing Family Business Conflict" to the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council quarterly meeting
    • February 2010
      Blair taught Elder Mediation to advanced mediators in New York City.
    • January 2010
      Blair Trippe taught Elder Mediation to advanced mediators in Boston.

      Blair taught conflict resolution skills to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff in Rhode Island.