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The Partnership charter

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Speaking Engagements 

BMC Associates provides speakers to families in business, business partners and the professionals that serve them. Our subjects all focus on methods of preventing and resolving business conflict. The Speakers program is led by Dr. David Gage, a principal of BMC and a nationally-recognized expert on business mediation and collaboration. All BMC speakers are active practitioners in business mediation and conflict prevention.

For more detailed information on BMC’s capabilities or to arrange for a speaker, contact us.

 

  • A Conversation on Business Partnerships in Startups

    Event: A Conversation on Business Partnerships in Startups with David Gage
    Hosted by: Affinity Lab, The Fort.vc, Social Tables, and CoFounders Lab
    Event Date: March 7, 2012
    Location: Washington, D.C.

    David Gage spoke and took questions about building and maintaining business partnerships among startup founders. This was the perfect event for any founder planning to enter a new partnership or looking to improve the one they’re already in.

  • Healthy Business Partners and Partnerships

    Event: World Presidents’ Organization (WPO), Washington DC & Baltimore Chapter
    Event Date: October 6, 2011
    Location: Severn, MD

    David Gage spoke at the first session in a series of four business track programs on healthy business partners and partnerships.

  • Helping Clients with Succession Planning

    Event: Greater Washington Society of CPAs
    Event Date: July 21, 2010
    Location: Washington, D.C.

    David Gage was a co-instructor for this Continuing Professional Education program for CPAs.  Succession is one of the most complex issues facing entrepreneurs.  Business owners are frequently passing their companies to more than one person – partners, children, key employees – and for many, it goes painfully awry. 

  • Family Lands, Family Dynamics

    Event: AICPA National Real Estate Conference
    Event Date: November 14, 2008
    Location: Phoenix, AZ

    David Gage spoke at this American Institute of CPAs conference. He addressed the family dynamics that come to the foreground when family land decisions are at hand, how parents – with the best of intentions – create “accidental partners” among children when transferring land to them, what families can do to lessen the likelihood of future conflict and what adult siblings in “accidental partnerships” in real estate can do to diminish their risk

  • Putting Mediation to Use within the Corporation

    Event: Institute of Management Accountants
    Event Date: November 15, 2006
    Location: Rosslyn, VA

    Ed Kopf discussed the roles of mediation and facilitation in enhancing corporate performance.

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