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

Family Governance and Family Wealth

February 19, 2019

Event: Exit Planning Institute Conference

Event Date: November 14, 2018

Location: Ritz Carlton – Tysons Corner, Virginia

It’s easy and common for financial and legal advisors to focus their efforts on “the business” to the detriment of the family behind it. Family businesses have special circumstances that public companies don’t face and managing the issues related to stewarding wealth through generations is complex.

Healthy Business Partners & Partnerships

February 18, 2019

Event: Executive Forums of Northern Virginia

Event Date: November 8, 2018

Location: The Tower Club, Tysons Corner, Virginia

Donna and David Gage addressed a gathering of CEOs and Co-owners interested in discovering the common (and not-so-common) traps partners fall into and the preventive steps they can take to minimize the likelihood of conflict. They stressed that most partner conflicts can be traced back to insufficient partner planning.

The Expertise Psychologists Bring to Mediation

October 28, 2018

Event: Maryland Psychological Association Annual Convention

Event Date: November 2, 2018

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

The Maryland Psychological Association invited Drs. Donna and David Gage to present a workshop at their Annual Convention about the many ways psychologists can use mediation to help their clients. They focused on mediation with business partners, boards of directors, management teams and families with business and estate issues, but they emphasized how psychologists’ training and experience make them particularly well suited to work in any conflict situations that involve close relationships.

Continuing Education Program

October 15, 2017

Event: DC Psychological Association

Event Date: October 20, 2017

Location: Washington, DC

David and Donna Gage gave a workshop for psychologists, social workers and executive coaches on how BMC uses a multidisciplinary approach to help family business owners resolve complex family and business conflicts collaboratively.