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Betsy Ross

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For nearly 30 years, Betsy Ross has helped individuals, groups, families, and organizations talk to each other more, fight less, and improve their ability to address issues or challenges and problem solve together. Betsy draws on training in three different disciplines (psychotherapy, coaching, and mediation) to build her clients’ skills to improve their relationships (personal as well as professional) and successfully navigate the lumps and bumps of major life shifts such as a job/career change, partnership/marriage end, or other anticipated/unanticipated changes. Betsy is the principal of Betsy Ross Coaching and Divorce Mediation Strategies.

Betsy has designed and facilitated training programs for a variety of organizations including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical Center, daycare and child welfare organizations, and non-profits. She has presented customized workshops and seminars on a variety of topics, co-written a book, and served as a blogger for the Huffington Post Divorce Blog. Betsy’s writings and original points of view have appeared in the Boston Globe and on a variety of professional websites as well as on A Plus (Ashton Kutcher’s digital media outlet). Betsy has a B.A. from the University of Vermont and an M.S.W. from Fordham University.

Ellen Waldorf

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Ellen helps individuals and families stymied by difficult conversations in their work or personal lives. Ellen is the principal of eWaldorf Mediation where she mediates divorces and facilitates family discussions among adult siblings and parents and adult children.

Ellen has taught employees and professionals in a variety of fields how to deal with difficult customers, clients, and co-workers.  Ellen trains new mediators through Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and Divorce Mediation Training Associates and has coached mediation students at Boston College Law School, Suffolk Law School, Champlain College, and Community Dispute Settlement Center.   

Ellen draws on her prior professional experiences working for a private investor, practicing corporate law, clerking for a federal appellate court judge, teaching English in China, and interning for “Late Night with David Letterman.”  Ellen has a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law.