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Professional Bio:

Doug Baumoel is the Founder of Continuity, LLC, a leading family business consulting firm. He brings an extensive background in family business operations and executive leadership in his work with clients. He served as a second-generation executive in his own familys business and has held key executive positions in other family and non-family businesses. Doug started and ran businesses in both the U.S. and Europe, and lived overseas for many years establishing and managing the European offices of his familys business.
Doug has applied more than 20 years of business experience to the development of a process for analyzing key variables affecting family business conflict. He is the co-author, with Continuity Managing Partner Blair Trippe, of Deconstructing Conflict: Understanding Family Business, Shared Wealth and Power. This recently published work is the ultimate guide to Continuitys unique developmental approach for managing conflict in family enterprises. Doug has written for numerous professional publications and journals including Family Business Magazine; the Thomson West Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Guide; Private Company Director magazine; and Negotiation Journal of the Harvard Program on Negotiation.
Doug earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has been awarded the distinction of Fellow of both Family Firm Institute (FFI), the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and the Cornell Smith Family Business Initiative. He holds a certificate in Civil Mediation from MCLE and is a graduate of the Director Professionalism program of NACD. Doug also served as President of the New England chapter of the Family Firm Institute.