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Donna Hart Gage, Ph.D., R.N. Disciplines: Consultant and Mediator
After successfully leading BMC’s healthcare practice, Dr. Gage has been appointed Chief Nursing Officer for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in Washington, DC. As the VA’s top nursing leader, she now oversees more than 80,000 nursing personnel at 152 hospitals and over 1,500 clinics nationwide.
As a BMC Principal, she helped guide all aspects of BMC’s work in the healthcare field, including mediation and consultation to prevent and resolve conflicts in all types and sizes of healthcare systems. (See Focus on Health Systems, Institutions and Practices.)
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The Partnership Charter
Start partnerships out on a solid foundation of comprehensive agreements.
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Mediation
Resolve conflicts among business owners and principals through facilitated negotiations.
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Business Succession Plans
Successfully transferring leadership in business and family to the next generation.
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Collaborative Estate Planning
Families planning together to preserve and build a legacy.
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Other Services
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The Partnership charter
Millions of people co-own closely held companies, family businesses, and business partnerships, but establishing them and keeping them together is never easy. Here, finally, is the guide they have been waiting for.... Read More
Welcome to BMC Associates
BMC Associates helps business partners, owners of family businesses, and principals of other organizations deal with conflict and build collaboration. BMC’s interdisciplinary and non-adversarial approach helps strengthen working teams’ overall business and interpersonal performance.
BMC’s services include:
- Mediation, a process that resolves conflicts through facilitated negotiations.
- The Partnership Charter, an innovative, preventative tool for partners and partners-to-be who want a structured approach to negotiating the many issues that tend to cause difficulties and conflicts among partners.
- Business Succession Plans, an integrated approach to transferring family business leadership and ownership.
- Collaborative Estate Planning, a way for families to address the many sensitive issues involved in transferring assets such as vacation properties from one generation to the next.
- Other Services that meet the planning and organizational development needs of clients are offered in conjunction with the services described above.
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Recent News & Updates 
Visioning: Putting Why Before What and How!
April 2, 2014Posting by Stewart Christ, MBA, Principal at BMC Associates
Business leaders can be quick to charge ahead in pursuit of a “solution” only to find they are not only chasing the wrong solution but may be ignoring the real problem. Leaders can get so fixated on the How, they don’t think to ask the more important questions of Why and What.
Partners and Equity (Part 3): The Basic Principles of a Comprehensive Approach to Dividing Ownership
January 27, 2014Posting by Ed Kopf, Ph.D., Principal at BMC Associates
The first two posts in this series (Part 1 and Part 2) explore the many risks and opportunities that arise when business partners discuss their division of equity. They also describe a unique Comprehensive Contributions-based Equity Process (CCEP) that can minimize the risks and maximize the benefits of that critical discussion.
Your Business Model Canvas: A Shared Vision?
December 16, 2013Posting by Stewart Christ, MBA, Principal at BMC Associates
The Business Model Canvas was introduced by Alexander Osterwalder as a mechanism to create and document a business model in a concise and visual manner and provide a unique way to enhance collaboration. The Canvas’ visual depiction of a business model incorporates key elements that include external partners, activities, value propositions, customer relationship and segments, resources, channels, cost structure, and revenue streams.
Family Business in the News: The Bad, the Ugly and (Once in a While) the Good
November 29, 2013Posting by Amy Pengidore and Ed Kopf
Closely-held, family businesses are in the news less often than their public counterparts – even though they comprise a major segment of the economy, so I try to keep an eye out for the occasional account that comes along and provides a window into these very private entities. There may be some lessons we can draw from these stories.
Other News & Updates
Celebration of Young Presidents’ Organization’s “Best of the Best” Education Award
Partners and Equity (Part 2): The Basic Principles of a Comprehensive Approach to Dividing Ownership
The Five Dysfunctions & The Partnership Charter
Have a Lean Start-up, but Start Out Right
Built to Sell: Co-Founders and Co-Sellers
Safeguarding the Family When the Business is Sold
Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Your Partnership