BMC Associates help business partners and owners of family and non-family businesses deal with conflict and build collaboration.

The Partnership Charter
Mediation
Business Succession Plans
Collaborative Estate Planning
Other Services

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
Enhance productivity, strengthen relationships and enhance teamwork.
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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.

Recent News & Updates

Continuing Education Program

April 21, 2017

Event: DC Psychological Association

Event Date: October 20, 2017

Location: Washington, DC

The DC Psychological Association’s Continuing Education Program asked Dr. Gage to present a workshop for psychologists, social workers and executive coaches on the various ways they can use mediation to help their clients. Dr. Gage will focus on mediation with business partners, boards of directors, management teams and families with business, estate and intra-family issues such as resolving conflicts over inheritances, the care of aging parents and end-of-life issues.

Presentation at Annual Convention

Event: American Psychological Association’s Annual Conference

Event Date: August 6, 2017

Location: Washington, DC

Dr. David Gage will present a talk entitled “Siblings in Conflict: Tied at the Hip in the Family Business” at the world’s largest annual conference of psychologists. He will talk to psychologists from around the world about how siblings jointly inherit family assets and suddenly find themselves not just siblings, but also business partners.

Dr. Gage Interviewed For APA Webinar

April 20, 2017

Event: American Psychological Association Webinar

Event Date: April 25, 2017

Dr. David Gage will be interviewed on the American Psychological Association’s on-going webinar series, “How Did You Get That Job?” The series explores how the knowledge, skills, and experience gained through psychologists’ education and training can successfully transfer to a variety of jobs that they may never have considered.

Family & Non-Family Business Partners in a Global Perspective

November 18, 2016

Event: Guest Lecture, Course on Global Entrepreneurship

Hosted by: Kogod School of Business, American University

Event Date: November 17, 2016

Location: American University

American University Professor Richard Linowes asked Drs. Corso and Gage to address his Global Entrepreneurship class on BMC clients with global companies. Special guest, Claire Russo, co-founder of LuRu Home, described the advantages she and her partner experienced as a result of developing a Partnership Charter.