Who We Are
For general inquiries, please contact ACCORD by clicking here.
For specific inquiries, please consult the profiles of individual team members found below.
From left to right, ACCORD's Kathy Komaroff Goodman, colleague Chris Straw, and Karen LaRose
(Click to read Kathy's bio)
Founding Principal at ACCORD.
Specializing in mediation, family business conflict, organizational conflict, Emotional Social Intelligence (ESI) coaching for individuals, executives and organizations.
“Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. ”
(click to read Karen's bio)
Specializing in family business conflict, organizational conflict, Emotional Social Intelligence (ESI) coaching for individuals, executives and organizations.
“Development geared to the satisfaction of fundamental human needs cannot be structured from the top downwards [or] be imposed either by law or decree. It can only emanate directly from the actions, expectations and creative and critical awareness of the protagonists themselves.”
(Click to read Chris' bio)
“The characteristic processes and effects elicited by a given type of social relationship also tend to elicit that type of social relationship.”
“Attractors are created by a combination of many things-beliefs, habits, norms, loyalties, the media-that slowly come together to form powerful constraints on how we think, feel and act.”
“The essential feature of a common thought is not that it is held in common, but that it has been produced in common.”
“The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.”
“Peace is the beginning of justice, not the end.”