Partner Profiles

Meryl Marshall-Daniels, J.D.

Meryl Marshall-Daniels is a consultant to corporations and individuals. She works as a trained mediator, facilitator and executive coach, helping clients and companies in the public and private sector.

Meryl specializes in leadership and organizational development, facilitates group dialogue, strategic planning retreats, and management transitions. Whether she is working with corporate or non-profit boards, officers or executives, Meryl helps her clients engage in honest and open dialogue among competing interests, confront challenges and expand their problem solving capacities resulting in increased productivity. She provides tools for effective leadership by aligning professional strengths and abilities with personal values and addressing weaknesses with specific skill building strategies.

Working with individuals and families Meryl emphasizes authentic, honest communication and creative problem solving. By creating a safe and supportive environment the challenges of life transitions can be an opportunity for growth and development. Meryl brings her insights and skills to explore the underlying needs and interests of her clients in resolving marital, parent-child, sibling and other family disputes.

Meryl’s career began as an attorney with experience in the areas of family law, dependency, and as criminal defense. She entered the entertainment industry in 1979 and worked for several years at NBC including five years on the Senior Executive Management Committee and as Vice President of Compliance and Practices. She was recruited to Group W Productions, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Broadcasting Inc. and launched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In 1992 she formed Two Oceans Entertainment Group and produced 40 hours of award winning television programs for HBO, NBC-Universal and Discovery Networks.

Meryl served two terms Chairman/ CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences where she applied her facilitation and leadership skills to reenergize the organization. She instituted Board retreats to build trust, create consensus and adopt new leadership strategies for the sixty member Board of Governors.

Meryl Marshall-Daniels is a trained mediator and licensed to practice law in California. She is also a Senior Fellow at UCLA School of Public Policy and the Chairman of the George Foster Peabody Awards and on the Board of Project Grad Los Angeles.



Susan Mullins, MA

Susan Whittaker Mullins is a mediator and facilitator focusing on families, businesses, organizations and community groups who are seeking to resolve difficult issues and areas of conflict effectively and constructively. Through mediation and facilitated dialogue, people resolve their issues and construct better, more rewarding working relationships.

Family Mediation
Susan’s practice responds specifically to the issues confronting today’s families. Among these are marital disputes, divorce, domestic partnerships, parenting plans, and parent-child conflicts.

For divorcing parents, resolving conflict around post-divorce parenting issues is essential. Susan helps parents find new ways for problem solving which create an on-going respectful, resilient relationship around their children’s lives. With all families, she works with parents and their teenaged children to negotiate specific conflicts, thereby opening channels of communication and rebuilding trust.

There are new issues now facing mature families where elder mediation can effectively help adult children navigate the journey of aging parents. Understanding the needs and desires of our parents, managing responsibility, and negotiating long-standing family system conflicts all put enormous stress on today’s families. Mediation helps families come to positive resolutions at this important stage of family life.

Business and Community
Susan works with business partnerships, workplace, schools, housing complexes, and neighborhood communities where the breakdown in communications and disputes necessitates mediation to find ways for healthy dissolution, problem-solving, and the possibility of effective reconciliation.

Workshops
Susan believes how we handle conflict effects our quality life. She provides children and adults new tools to handle conflict and communicate effectively which can be used in every aspect of their lives. Susan has created conflict engagement trainings for schools in Los Angeles. She also works with international students from 86 countries through the Bartos Institute at the United World College in New Mexico facilitating retreats around cross-cultural understandings, community building and effective communication skills.

Susan has received extensive training in mediation and conflict engagement from the Center for Dispute Resolution (Santa Monica, California), the Los Angeles County Bar Association, The Public Conversation Project (Watertown, Massachusetts), the New England Educational Institute, and Centinela Youth Services Juvenile Justice and Families at Risk programs.

She is a founding member of Mediators Without Borders, a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and the Southern California Mediation Association.