Public Appearances

• Book Signing, Gasparillo Book Club, Tampa, Florida
• Keynote Speaker, Multicare Health System, Annual Leadership Breakfast, Tacoma, Washington
• Keynote Speaker, Multicare Health System, Presidential Awards, Spokane, Washington
• Speaker, Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law, and Politics, National Conference, Washington, D.C.
• Speaker, International City Manager’s Association, National Conference, Baltimore, Maryland
• Keynote Speaker, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Women on the Move Event
• Keynote Speaker, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Young Lawyer’s Division
• Keynote Speaker, American University, Coalition for Education of Disabled Students Annual Conference
• Keynote Speaker, Florida’s Annual Dispute Resolution Conference
• Keynote Speaker, New York State Bar Association’s Annual Conference & Canadian Bar Association
• Keynote Speaker, United States State Department, Equal Employment Opportunity and Human Resource Conference
• Keynote Speaker, Christian Initiatives Academy, Groundbreaking Ceremony
• Plenary Speaker, District of Columbia Chapter, Association of Conflict Resolution Annual Conference

Private Appearances

• Louise Phipps Senft has delivered hundreds of speeches and presentations for local, state and federal agencies, non-profits, educational institutions, businesses and associations.

Radio

• Radio Guest, National Public Radio, WHRV, Richmond, Virginia
• Radio Guest, Woman Talk Live
• Radio Guest, National Public Radio, WYPR, Baltimore, Maryland
• Radio Guest, KGNU, Boulder, Colorado, Conflict Resolution Call-In: Inter-Generational Issues (Listen, starts 37:00)
• Radio Guest, Baltimore, Maryland WBAL
• Radio Guest, Knoxville, Tennessee

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• “Chief Judge Robert M. Bell Award” for Outstanding Contribution to Alternative Dispute Resolution in Maryland (2018)
• “Fellow”, International Academy of Mediators (2018)
• “Top 100 MBE Award”, Minority Owned Business Enterprises for the Mid-Atlantic Region (2014)
•  “Brava Award”, SmartCEO Magazine (Top 15 Maryland Female CEOs, 2012)
• “Most Spirited Woman Award,” the American Red Cross, MyCity4Her and the Baltimore Business Journal (2011)
• “Special Leader of the Year Award”, YWCA, for work in leadership and the eradication of racism (2010)
• “ACET”, First Mediation Trainer Nationally Approved as an Accredited Continuing Education Trainer (ACET) by the National Association for Conflict Resolution, (2010)
• “Hall of Fame”, Sacred Heart-Griffin High School Hall of Fame, Springfield, IL (2010)
•  “Maryland Circle of Excellence,” The Daily Record (2009)
• “Most Enterprising Woman Award”, Baltimore Business Journal  (2009)
• “Top 100 MBE Award”, Minority Owned Business Enterprises for the Mid-Atlantic Region (2009)
•  “Maryland’s Top 100 Women”, The Daily Record (2004, 2007, 2009)
•  “Baltimore’s Best” Mediator, Baltimore Magazine (2002)
• “Advanced Practitioner”, the Association of Conflict Resolution, Family Section (2001-present)
• “Certified Transformative Mediator”, Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, only performance-based measure for national certification (1999)
•  “Certified Mediator”, Maryland Council on Dispute Resolution, the only performance-based certification in the State of Maryland (1997)
• “Advanced Practitioner”, Academy of Family Mediators (1992-2001)
•  “Pro Bono Award”, Whiteford, Taylor and Preston, LLP (1990)
•  “Most Outstanding Woman Law Student”, Washington & Lee School of Law (1988)

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Academy of Family Mediators

• Should a Mediator Draft Settlement Agreements?(Fall 2000) *

ACResolutions

• Katrina: Turning Problems Into Opportunities (Fall 2005) *
• Conflict Transformation for Separating Couples (Summer 2005) *
• The Interrelationship of Ethics, Emotional Intelligence and Self Awareness (Spring 2004) *

American Bar Associations I Can Relate! Blog 

• I Can Relate! (April 2019)
• I Can Relate! (January 2019)
• I Can Relate! (December 2018)
• I Can Relate! (November 2018)
• I Can Relate! (September 2018)
• What’s Love Got To Do With It? (July 2018)
• Tribe Think (June 2018)
• I Have A Dream (May 2018)
• Try, Try Again (March 2018)
• I Can Relate (February 2018)

Arts & Sciences

• We Can Work It Out (January 2005) *

Maryland Bar Journal

• Portrait of a Good Mediator (July/August 2003) *

Penn State Law Review

• ADR in the Courts: Progress, Problems, and Possibilities (2003) *

Daily Record Articles:

• “About Mediation”, September 2004
• “Thoughts For Attorneys in Mediation. Part I”, October 2004
• “Thoughts For Attorneys in Mediation. Part II”, November 2004
• “Selecting a Mediator”, December 2004
• “Models and Philosophies of Mediation”, January 2005
• “Listening Mediator Style”, February-March 2005
• “Mediation in Discrimination Cases”, April 2005
• “Mediation: Significantly Different from a Settlement Conference”, May 2005
• “Mediation in Real Estate Cases”, June 2005
• “Mediation A Matter of Concerns”, July 2005
• “How Parties Can Prepare for Mediation” , August 2005
• “Dialogue as an Opportunity”, September 2005
• “Inviting Emotions to the Table. Mediation as Opportunity”, October 2005
• “A Relational View of Conflict Changes Situations”,November-December 2005
• “The “Rules” of Mediation–Attorneys Present or Not”, January 2006
• “Mediation … the Future”, February 2006
• “Mediation Approaches Outside the Room”, March 2006
• “What To Do About Mom’s Failing Health: Mediation for Elder Care”, April 2006
• “Marital Mediation—for Couples Wanting to Preserve their Marriage during Difficult Times and Decision Making Situations”, May 2006
• “Mediation Reluctance”, June 2006
• “Mediation – Recognition is key”, August 2006
• “Taking a Relational Approach to Mediation in Foreclosures”, January 2007
• “Mediation Two Questions to Ask of Counsel”, March 2007
• “Mediation – Three Aspects of Recognition”, April 2007
• “Why Businesses are Using Mediation as a First Process rather than as an Alternative Process“, October 2007
• “The Aftermath of Reaching Agreement”, January 2008
• “Happy 10th Birthday, Mediation in the Maryland Courts under Title 17”, February 2008
• “Fostering Humanity”, March 2008
• “Mediation and The Absent Party”, April 2008
• “Why Not be Directive”, May 2008
• “Transformative Mediation Provides Three Aspects of Recognition”, April, 2009
• “Why Mediators Should Avoid the Temptation to Give Advice“, 2009
• “Conflict and Negotiation Lessons Learned from the Recent Snow” February, 2010

Ms. Senft has authored a number of other training manuals and articles, including:

• • “When to Mediate Business Disputes”, Maryland Business Law Watch, 25, (Feb. 1998)
  • Marital Mediation. Transforming Marital Conflict through Facilitated Dialogue Transformative Mediation: A Sourcebook, Chaper 14, J.P. Folger, R.A. Baruch Bush, D.J. Della Noce (eds.) Association for Conflict Resolution, 2011
  • “Ten Times to Try Mediating Personal and Family Disputes,” Maryland Family Law Monthly, 5 (Apr.1998)
  • “Preliminary Motion for Mediation: New Tool for Litigators,” Maryland State Bar Association, ADReport, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2002)
  • Senft & Savage, ADR in the Courts: Progress, Problems and Possibilities, 101 PENN ST. L. REV.l22 (2003)
  • “Marital Mediation: Transforming Marital Conflict through Facilitated Dialogue–Reclaiming Personal Strength and Marital Connectedness” (2009)
  • “Conflict Transformation for Separating Couples“, (Summer, 2005, ACResolution)
  • “What to Do About Mom’s Failing Health? Mediation and Elder Care” (Fall, 2006, Family Mediation Quarterly)
  • “Mediating End of Life Decisions – Feeding Tubes and Other Quality of Life and Care Choices“, (Summer, 2009, ACResolution)
  • “Vocation Truthfulness” (Spring 2009, ACResolution)
  • “Mediation Changes People“, (September 2008)
  • “Should a Mediator Draft Settlement Agreements”(Fall, 2000, Academy of Family Mediators)
  • “Quality Deliberation and Decision-Making – Mediation from a Transformative Approach” (Winter 2007, ACResolution)
  • “BY WHAT STANDARDS DO WE DEFINE MEDIATOR QUALITY?” (March 2003, Maryland Bar)
  • “Mediation Basics for Biotech: How to Transform Your Negotiation” (February, 2010)
  • “Time Out for Time Out” (May, 2010)
  • “Basic Mediation I and Conflict Transformation Skills with a focus on Mediator Style and Self-Awareness”, 1994, 2004, 2005
  • “Basic Mediation II and Conflict Transformation Skills with a focus on Sources of Conflict and Systems”, 1994, 2004, 2005
  • “Basic Mediation III and Conflict Transformation Skills with a focus on Ethical and Legal Issues for the Mediator”, 1994, 2004, 2005
  • “Advanced Mediation and Conflict Transformation Skills with a focus on Domestic Conflict and Parenting Plans”, 1995, 2005
  • “Advanced Mediation and Conflict Transformation Skills with a focus on Marital Property Disputes”, 1996, 2004
  • “Advanced Facilitation Skills and Systems Approach”, 1998
  • “Advanced Conflict Resolution Skills for the Workplace”, 1998, 2002, 2004
  • “Advanced Multi-Party Mediation Skill”, 2004

She is also co-author of the final chapter of the ADR Handbook for Judges, ed. D. Stienstra & S. Yates, American Bar Association and Federal Judicial Center (2004), and has her work of facilitating public policy conflicts featured in Chapter 3 titled “Gaining Sight of the Goal of Transformation,” of the new and revised Promise of Mediation, 2d. ed., B. Bush & J. Folger, Jossey-Bass Publishers (2004).

* Articles are in PDF format and require Acrobat Reader or compatible software.

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ABC’s Piece on Elder-Care Mediation

Through years of sibling estrangement and decades of a somewhat tumultuous relationship with their mother, three siblings committed themselves to the mediation process and were able to come together to galvanize and honor their mother’s living will that requested she be kept alive under any circumstances. During this time their mother fell ill and was being kept alive with the assistance of a feeding tube and respirator.

Through a series of mediations over three weeks Louise was able to assist the family with decisions pertaining to power of attorney, how to interface with their mother’s medical care team and how to listen to and work with each other. This open forum for dialogue allowed the family to work together and request that their mother’s care team minimize her pain medication to provide their mother with some coherence, if there was any, to ask if her living will directive was still her wish. A moment of theirs mother’s consciousness led to her faintly motioning for removal. Their mother peacefully passed away shortly afterwards.

The siblings were happy to have the opportunity to be part of a process that let them wrestle through this difficult time together. Mediation not only allowed this family to strengthen their sibling relationship but also also provided a sense of closure to the parental relationship and everyone felt at peace.

ABC’s Piece provides insight on the opportunities mediation can present families like this one and others facing difficult conversations and the many stresses found in elder care decision-making.

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Press Release

Baltimore, Maryland (April 1, 2009) – Louise Phipps Senft, President and CEO of Louise Phipps Senft & Associates/Baltimore Mediation, has been named again as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women and selected, as one of 13, as an inductee into the 2009 Circle of Excellence for sustained achievement in Maryland.  This is the third time Senft has been chosen as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women.  She was also recognized in 2004 and 2007.  Senft will be honored at an awards ceremony at the Meyerhoff on May 11th, 2009.

Maryland’s Top 100 Women Award recognizes high-achieving Maryland women who are making an impact through their leadership, community service and mentoring.  Senft is known nationally for her design and delivery of conflict resolution and transformation skills training and mediation for professionals, court systems, companies, contractors, real estate management firms, hospitals, assisted living facilities, higher education and government agencies.  Ms. Senft, also an attorney, has provided mediation and facilitation services to thousands of individuals in divorce, employment, business, closely held family businesses, trusts and estates and civil litigation.  She is also on faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law and Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation Insight Initiative.

Senft’s dedication and active involvement in the mediation field is evidenced by her work in the national think tank, The Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, as Co-Chair of the Baltimore City Bar Association’s first ADR Committee, appointment by Chief Judge Bell to the Maryland Court of Appeals’ ADR Commission and the task force on Professional Responsibility in ADR, leadership as co-architect of the state’s Mediator Grievance Process, service for the national Ethics committee and Training Standards committee of The Association for Conflict Resolution and role as a past President of the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution.

As a resident of Roland Park, Senft is also an active member of her community.  She is Vice President of the Roland Park Civic League whose recent focus is on the preservation of historic green space in Olmstead designed Roland Park as well as the monitoring of other land developments.  She is currently an elected member and serves as Treasurer on the executive board of Network 2000 whose mission is to place women on corporate boards and mentor rising female executives, is an elected board member for the Coalition of Geriatric Services in Maryland, and is a founding member of the Tuesday Girls whose mission is to provide peer to peer networking opportunities for women executives and business owners. She has been selected to be part of the 2010 class for Leadership Maryland.

Louise Phipps Senft & Associates/Baltimore Mediation was established in 1993.  For over a decade, the members of the Baltimore Mediation team have been in the day-to-day business of mediating interpersonal and multi-party disputes and facilitating divergent group dialogue, as well as training and mentoring some of the best mediators in the state of Maryland.

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