Grammar of the Wealthy Family: Healthy Communication and Constructive Conflict Management

About Alain-Laurent VerbekeKatalien BollenMartin Euwema

Prof. Dr. Alain-Laurent Verbeke is attorney and founding partner of the Greenille Private Client Teamat Deloitte Legal Lawyers. He is also a full professor of private law negotiation & mediation at KU Leuven holding the chairs of family property law (trusts & estates) and negotiation & mediation. At the Faculty of Law he is director of the Rector Dillemans Institute for Family Property Law and co-director of the Center for Notarial Law and the Institute of Contract Law. He is also co-director of the Leuven Center for Collaborative Management (LCM) and core-team member of the KU Leuven Centre for Business Families at the psychology faculty. He is visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School since 2007 a full professor of private law & comparative law since 1999 at Tilburg University and since 2008 professor of law & negotiation at UCP Lisbon Global School of Law.Prof. Dr. Martin Euwema is of counsel with the Greenille Private Client Team of Deloitte Legal Lawyers. After an academic career at Utrecht University he is a full professor at KU Leuven since 2007. He is chair of the Department of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and Professional Learning and co-director of the Leuven Center for Collaborative Management (LCM) and core-team member of the KU Leuven Centre for Business Families. He is also visiting professor at the Universities of Copenhagen and Seville and is affiliated with Tsinghua University in Beijing. His focus is on group dynamics conflict and leadership.Prof. Dr. Katalien Bollen is a senior expert in family & business dynamics with the Greenille Private Client Team of Deloitte Legal Lawyers. She is an organizational psychologist and a PhD at KU Leuven (with Euwema as promoter and Verbeke as co-promoter) in the field of mediation. She has numerous international publications to her name on mediation conflict management and communication. She also has extensive practical experience in mediation and facilitation. She was an assistant professor at the University of Maastricht and is currently a part-time associate professor at KU Leuven teaching in the medical school and involved in the scientific supervision of doctorates at the faculty of psychology. She is at the core-team of the KU Leuven Centre for Business Families.