Thursday, August 21st
Our special guest this week, Alexander Stein, PhD Founder + Managing Principal Dolus Advisors will Present on:
Passionate Attachments: Navigating the Emotional Cauldron of Contentious Disputes
Sometimes, people in relationships – couples, business partners, family enterprises – are perfectly wrong for each other in just the right ways. This idea is a point of entry to recognizing and addressing the dizzying array of powerful psychodynamic forces – seething resentments, rivalries, bullying, shaming, guilt, hostility, blame, power plays for dominance, attention, and affection, histories of love and deep attachments to shared wounds and conflicts – underlying personal and commercial relationships in discord and contestation. This session provides penetrating analysis and practical strategies for mediators to help disputing parties navigate situationally particular but generally predictable stages (or zones) of conflict and then guide them out of intractable spirals – helping them see that movement brings friction which can be challenging but crucial for change or resolution.
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Our presenter:
DR ALEXANDER STEIN | Dolus Advisors
alexanderstein@dolusadvisors.com
Alexander Stein is founder and managing principal of Dolus Advisors, a strategic consultancy specializing in organizational issues with complex psychological underpinnings. Trained and licensed as a clinical psychoanalyst, Dr Stein leverages deep expertise in decision-making, behavior, and the influences of power and psycho-social dynamics to advise CEO's, executive teams, and boards on psychological aspects of leadership, provide psychologically incisive leadership and culture assessments, elevate board effectiveness and governance capabilities, and architect and lead CEO succession and transition processes. An internationally regarded authority in human risk and the psychodynamics of fraud, Dr Stein regularly serves as a consulting expert in situations involving corporate misconduct and executive malfeasance, and frequently collaborates with members of ICC FraudNet, a worldwide network of leading lawyers who specialize in fraud and international asset tracing and recovery, in multijurisdictional serious fraud and grand corruption matters. He is also a specialist collaborator to the Center for Human Centered Cybersecurity (HCC) of The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and helps companies mitigate and resolve challenging human factor disturbances through the development and implementation of psycho-socially sophisticated cybersecurity and corporate culture and ethics programs. His technology practice provides expert guidance in the human decision-making behind the complex psychological, psycho-social, and ethical risks and responsibilities of frontier computational systems designed to assume unsupervised autonomous decision-making functions in human affairs.
He sits on several advisory boards, notably including PsiAN, a leading mental health advocacy organization, is the co-chair elect of both the Committee on Public Information and the Committee on Corporate and Organizational Consultants of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and is the Regional Chair for North America of the Virtual Library of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
A prolific writer and expert resource, Dr Stein is widely published and cited in the business press, varied industry publications, and peer-reviewed journals, including Fast Company, INC, Financier Worldwide, Risk & Compliance, the Wall Street Journal, the ICC FraudNet Global Report, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, among many others. He is a former monthly columnist for FORTUNE Small Business Magazine, CNN/Money, and CBS Business News, and a former regular contributor to Forbes. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The CAI Report, a publication of the American Psychoanalytic Association, delivering insights and commentary at the intersection of psychoanalysis and artificial intelligence.
An engaging and experienced public speaker adept at explaining complicated topics clearly and compellingly for any audience, Dr Stein is a frequent podcast and webinar guest, on-camera commentator, and keynote speaker and panelist at conferences, symposia, and corporate events internationally.
Offered by Will Work For Food, founded by Natalie Armstrong-Motin (www.HowToMarketMyMediationPractice.com, moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com) and Program Coordinator, David Shraga
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