Hi, I’m Katherine Flores, the best mediator for you. I love bringing people together with enhanced understanding and better communication. It’s always been my passion, as a born and bred peacemaker.
I also run a Brooklyn taco business with a partner. This experience coupled with extensive mediation training help me facilitate partner and workplace conflicts with professional efficiency.
I founded Flo Mediation with a process that works with your specific goals in mind. At the onset you set a framework for the time limit and tangible results you want to work toward. This ensures that our work remains thoughtful, efficient, and purposeful.
Over my 30+ years in the workforce, I’ve developed an approach to conflict as an adventure. By nature, I’m also able to maintain a calm and impartial demeanor in elevated and tense situations. No matter the session mode, my focus stays on facilitating your understanding and communication.
Experience makes me your best mediator
I’m both sensitive and fearless in the face of conflict. I know disagreements are inevitable among individuals who care about their work. Drawing from my professional backgrounds in business and mediation, I’m equipped to guide you through these conflicts and foster understanding.
As a business owner for twelve years, I’ve worked with every kind of client. From a boutique fine art dealer and many mid-size startups – to several of the world’s top corporations, I’ve seen it all. Each business has it’s own unique challenges. But at the heart of every conflict there are resonant gaps in communication and understanding.
My training and experience with every type of business client prepared me for even the hardest cases. In fact, I love a challenge and the bigger the conflict, the more invested I am in helping bridge division between participants.
That’s why I’m confident that I’m the best mediator to help you reach conflict resolution with your partner.
Mediation isn’t Therapy – The best mediator for you is efficient
Unlike therapy, mediation offers a short-term solution. The time commitment is flexible, often ranging from just a few sessions to fewer than a dozen. Mediation focuses on identifying and addressing specific issues through agreed-upon goals.
On the other hand, therapists are trained to help you address internal struggles, not conflict with others. As a result, duo and group therapy may often feel ineffective or at best, inefficient. Ongoing sessions can also get expensive without a designated goal to provide an end point.
As a mediator, I provide guidance and equip participants with conflict management tools and skills. These skills include active listening, effective communication, problem-solving, and prioritization.
Successful mediation may also require more active involvement from you in nurturing these relationships. However, the rewards are worth it, as your partnership or team will develop more cooperation, stronger bonds, and better communication.
Tools That Make Me the Best Mediator for Your Partnership
After finishing graduate school in 1996, I’ve developed a range of business skills and tools that help me serve my clients in numerous ways. My experience spans from strategic planning, business development, market research, content and brand creation, top level management, and team building. Here are just a few of my favorite tools for business mediation.
Launch Preparation
Many business partners at the early stages of building their company find it helpful to plot out their launch plans with a neutral third party.
Aligning Missions/Vision
Every successful company has a clear and distinct mission. It’s crucial to align on this from the onset when building your business. Flo Mediation is ready to help you find that alignment.
Succession Planning
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. We can help you apply this principle to the longevity of your business.
Restructuring
Sometimes a new format can make all the difference. At Flo Mediation we can help you break through to new ground without losing the integrity of what works in your business.
Training Development
A well trained worker can make all the difference in the workplace. That’s why we have developed ways to help set up a simple and effective system for training your people.
Feedback Protocol
The way we give feedback has a lasting impact on the recipient. Our mediation sessions help you learn how to share and receive constructive and impactful feedback. Whether for performance evaluations or simply a note on communication style, this tool creates real and lasting change in the workplace.
Goal Setting
At Flo Mediation we understand the importance of defined goals in the workplace. In fact, we start our work with an invitation for clients to share their goals for the mediation. It gives our sessions purpose and can do the same for your business.
Conclusion
In conclusion, as the best mediator for your partnership, I bring a breadth of experience, relevant training, and an efficient process. This makes me an ideal choice for resolving business and familial disputes to help foster ongoing harmony. Book a session and learn more about how mediation works on our Flo Mediation home page.