User:Dbaumoel

Douglas Baumoel, MBA

My profession is consulting to family owned businesses to help with succession planning, governance development, best business practice and managing the inherent and sometimes extraordinary conflicts of working and owning together as family. I am currently founder and president of Continuity Family Business Consulting, a Massachusetts based company. I have had extensive background in family business operations and executive management, having served as a second generation executive in my own family’s business and having held key executive positions in other family and non-family businesses. I have started businesses in both the US and Europe, and lived overseas for six years while founding and managing the European offices of my own family’s business, a manufacturer of industrial fluid and gas flow measurement systems. I served as the President of the New England Chapter of the Family Firm Institute from 2008 - 2011.

An area of specialty of mine is conflict management. I have studied mediation technique with Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and have had my approach for managing conflict in family business published by Thompson-West in their Practice Guide for Alternative Dispute Resolution. An article I authored on the topic has also been published in the January 2012 issue of Family Business Magazine.

I am also a lifelong entrepreneur and inventor, with 2 patents to my name and various copyrighted models and approaches relating to family business.

I am also a fairly accomplished fingerstyle guitarist with a penchant for prog-rock instrumentals.

Credentials: Wharton Graduate School of Business, MBA 1984 Cornell University, BS Electrical Engineering 1978 Family Firm Institute: Certificate in Family Business Advising, 2005 Certificate in Family Wealth Advising, 2007 MCLE - Certificate in Mediation Training, 2009