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Strategic Resolutions, LLC, and its predecessor Conflict Resolutions Services, have been in an active part of the dispute management and resolution business for over 20 years. Its principals have served as litigators, mediators, arbitrators, negotiators, speakers, educators, public relations consultants, event planners, board members, and writer/editors.

Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we provided services throughout Wisconsin and the surrounding states of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana.

Our mission is to work with people and organizations to avoid and to resolve conflict through teaching, training, and hands on participation in negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and communication. We are professionals in uncovering and expanding the range of possibilities and utilizing them to create winning strategies.

Professional Staff:

Lawrence Kahn
Forrest S. Clark
Bobbi Kahn



LAWRENCE KAHN, J.D., B.B.A.

Mediator, Consultant, Facilitator, Trainer

Profile
    Over 30 years of combined legal experience as a litigator, corporate counsel, family law attorney, and negotiator.

    Skilled leader and experienced facilitator who effectively develops strategic concepts and manages complex issues; applies analytical processes, synthesizes creative options, and makes fact-based decisions; and works collaboratively with people in highly complex projects.

Teaching experience:
    University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Sheldon Lubar School of Business Administration
      •   Business Ethics
      •   Business and Society
      •   Managerial Accounting (MBA Program)
      •   Gold Star Teaching Award

    University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Department of Economics
      •   Alternative Dispute Resolution (Masters Program)

    University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
      •   Task Force on Race and Ethnicity
      •   Co-Chair Peck School of the Arts Grand Viennese Ball

    Cardinal Stritch University College of Business and Management, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
      •   Business Ethics
      •   Negotiations
      •   Strategic Planning
      •   Business Law
      •   Financial Accounting
      •   Ethical and Legal Issues for Managers (MBA Program)
      •   Finance for Non-Financial Managers (MBA Program)
      •   Analysis and Design of Organizations (MBA Program)

    Bryant & Stratton College - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
      •   Legal and Ethical Issues in Medicine
      •   Financial Accounting
      •   Business Law
Past and Present Professional Organizations
    Strategic Resolutions, L.L.C. (to present): Managing director and senior consultant
      •   Conflict Management - Analyzing and developing internal conflict management and prevention systems
      •   Workshops - Training in group facilitation, negotiation skills, and team building
      •   Business Ethics - Developing ethics codes, guidelines for socially responsible management
                   and positive corporate culture
      •   Mediation and Arbitration Practice (to present): Acknowledged as one of the most successful
                   mediators of high-conflict cases in the metropolitan Milwaukee area, mediating
                   and arbitrating thousands of cases for over 20 years.

    Attorney at Law
      •   Broad private legal practice with a strong background in business, commercial, personal injury,
                   and family law

    PepsiCo, Inc.
      •   In-house corporate counsel, focusing on commercial negotiation, sale and acquisition of
                   subsidiaries, and government relations

    Interstate Commerce Commission
      •   Federal attorney, reviewing surface transportation carrier merger and securities applications

    National Arbitration Forum

    Wisconsin Association of Mediators
      •   Former Treasurer and Board Member
      •   1999 President's Award recipient
      •   2005 Emerging Issues in Mediation Conference Chairman

    Wisconsin Bar Association
      •   Former Chair and Board Member - Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
      •   Former Member Wisconsin Rules of Negotiation Forum
      •   Former Member Appellate Mediation Study Task Force

    Former Member District 2 Committee Office of Lawyer Regulation

    Milwaukee Bar Association
      •   Former Board Member and President - Alternative Dispute Resolution Section

    Representative Workshops, Seminars, and Lectures:
      •   The Future of Mediation (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
      •   Integrating Ethics Into the Curriculum (Cardinal Stritch University Faculty)
      •   Ethics and the Job Search for Managers (Right Management Group)
      •   Resolving Conflict Within Teams (Marquette University School of Engineering)
      •   Ethical Issues in Mediation and Negotiations (Wisconsin Association of Mediators)
      •   The Art of Negotiations (Cardinal Stritch University)
      •   Utilizing SWOT Analysis in Strategic Marketing (Manpower, Inc.)
      •   The Art of Story Telling in Mediation (Minnesota Association of Mediators)
      •   Negotiation Skill Building (Veteran's Administration Medical Center)
      •   Building Class Participation (Cardinal Stritch University Faculty)
      •   Dealing Constructively with Conflict (Medical College of Wisconsin)
      •   Dealing with Conflict in the Classroom (Cardinal Stritch University Faculty)
      •   Conflict Management (Norlight Communications)
      •   Negotiation Skills (Medical College of Wisconsin Teaching Faculty)
      •   Negotiation Skills and Group Facilitation Skills (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
      •   Negotiation Skills (Wisconsin Association of Public Purchasers)
      •   Ethical Issues in Business (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee School of Business)
      •   Conflict Theory and Dispute Resolution (Keynote Speaker - Wisconsin Association of Accountants)
      •   Using Basic Negotiation Strategies in Mediation (Heartland Mediation Conference)

    Current and Former Contracts:
      •   Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors Contract Mediator/Arbitrator
      •   Rock County Circuit Court Contract Mediator
      •   Equal Employment Opportunities Commission Mediation
      •   Milwaukee County Children's Court Contract Mediator
      •   United States Postal Service Contract Mediator
      •   American with Disabilities Act Contract Mediator
                (U.S. Department of Justice through Key Bridge Foundation)
      •   Equal Employment Opportunities Commission Mediation Training
      •   Organizational Facilitation and Strategic Planning Training
      •   Collaborative Leadership Training




FORREST SHELTON CLARK

Mediator, Life Coach, Consultant, Facilitator, Trainer

Profile
    Experienced consultant in organizational visioning and strategic mapping. Life-coach to managers, ministers, and leaders in areas of personal growth, goal-setting, and change.

    Experienced mediator in organizational, church, family, business, workplace and small-claims court settings. Visionary leader, experienced change agent and innovator, with proven ability to lead organizations through change in good times and difficult. Highly qualified executive offering more than twenty years of management and leadership in education, local church congregations, regional church judicatory, private business, and professional organizations.

Affiliations, Recognitions and Achievements
    Order of Elders
      •   2007 Chairperson

    Wisconsin Conference, The United Methodist Church

    Wisconsin Association of Mediatiors
      •   2005-2006 President
      •   2007 Board of Directors

    State of Iowa
      •   1990 Governor's Award for Volunteer Service,

Past and Present Professional Organizations
    FSClark Services
      •   Owner, Principal Consultant, Lead Coach, Medistor
      •   Coached clergy and health professionals on management, leadership and growth.

    The River of Life United Methodist Church
      •   Lead Pastor
      •   Formation of multi-campus, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual congregation from consolidation
                  of four separate congregations in two communities.
      •   Inaugurated services to Hispanic community, including worship, education, and fellowship.

    First United Methodist Church
      •   Lead Pastor
      •   Organizational restructuring

    Mediation Ministries
      •   Conflict resolution coach and mediator for churches, organizations, business, and families




ROBERTA KAHN

Mediator, Consultant, Facilitator, Trainer

Profile
    Over 25 years as a communications professional and project manager in the following areas: adult education, public relations, marketing, product launches, event and project management, B2B marketing.
Teaching experience:
    Cardinal Stritch University
      •   Adjunct Professor - Communications

    Bryan & Stratton College
      •   Adjunct Professor - Communications

Past and Present Professional Organizations
    Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
      •   Marketing project management
      •   Strategic planning, resource allocation, budgeting for new products and services
      •   Proposal services coordination
      •   Co-chair successful internal fundraising for charities

    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
      •   Assistant Director-Alumni Programs
      •   Develop local and regional outreach activities

    Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful
      •   Non-profit environmental and ecologically-focused organization
      •   Increase media coverage by over 50% of activities (seminar, auction, clean-up events)

    Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center
      •   Director of Planned Giving & Development
      •   Coordinate two annual golf benefits

    ABB
      •   Facilitate marketing tactics for Drives & Motors Division

    Ernst & Young
      •   Coordinate delivery of financial planning program for large client

    We Energies
      •   Employee benefits communications

    St. Joseph Regional Medical Center
      •   Public Relations & Development
Affiliations, Recognitions and Achievements
      •   UWM Grand Viennese Ball '00 Auction Committee; '01 & '02 co-chair
      •   Public Relations Society of America '98-'01 PRSA Paragon Awards Committee
      •   Wisconsin Association of Mediators '97-'99 Managing Editor
      •   Kiwanis Club of Milwaukee '98-'99 PR Liaison; Environmental Committee
      •   Association of Women in Communications - Board, VP-Media Relations; Secretary; committees '88-'94



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Phone: (414) 640-9750
Email: resolve@execpc.com

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