For over 15 years, Barbara Benoliel, Ph.D., President of Preferred Solutions, and Deborah Sword, Ph.D. (click for CV), have been a conflict competence building team:
- teaching
- training
- investigating,
- fact-finding
- problem-solving
- researching, writing
- mediating
- facilitating
- arbitrating
- coaching
- analyzing conflict
- designing conflict management systems.
Clients have been well served by our insights, strategies,
and techniques that create durable, doable solutions that work.
Barbara heads the eastern team, and Deborah leads in the west.
Our clients are exceptionally well served by our joint talents,
because we collaborate regularly.
Our style is flexible, using complexity science principles for
organizational and personal approaches to conflict.
