Passionate Attachments Navigating the Emotional Cauldron of Contentious Disputes Dr Alexander Stein

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.

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.

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