Their professional experience represents more than two decades of working globally with leaders in business, government, and non-governmental organizations.
Managing Partners Tom Schaub, Liz McClintock, Eric Henry and Ken Hyatt formed CMPartners in 2003. In fusing their respective practices into one firm, they combined decades of leadership in negotiation advising, training and facilitation practices. Soon after, Stacy Heen Lennon and Jim Tull were welcomed as Managing Partners. The Partnership works closely with a global team of talented Associates, Senior Consultants, Advisors, and Subject Matter Experts.
CMPartners grew from the renowned Conflict Management, Inc. (CMI), one of the world’s first negotiation consulting firms, and her sister non-profit organization Conflict Management Group (CMG).
Their intellectual heritage is rooted in the seminal thinking of their mentor Professor Roger Fisher, founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project in 1979. Professor Fisher later formed CMI and CMG in 1984.
During his long career, Professor Fisher led authorship on several books on negotiation, communication, and conflict and relationship management. Notably, Getting To Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In remains the world’s best-selling book on negotiation. Until his passing in 2012, Professor Fisher worked with CMPartners as a colleague and advisor. Roger was an inspiration and friend to each of their Partners.
Today, CMPartners professional practice spans more than 90 countries. Their clients include leaders and their teams in government, Fortune 500 global companies and small businesses alike, and a wide variety of nongovernmental and international organizations.
They have had the privilege of participating in some of the most challenging and important issues and negotiations of their time in both the private and public sectors.
Their mission is to negotiate, advise negotiators, and teach negotiation. They work continuously to better develop, understand, apply, and share negotiation best practices:
Thought—insight into the working nature of human interdependence and interaction, made operational in practical mental models, methods, tools, and strategies
Action—skills and practices that build competencies and produce results
Results—continuous improvement of working relationships and negotiated outcomes
CMPartners clients lead high-stakes Transactions, organizational and social Transitions, and integrated Training initiatives across a range of situations, including:
They serve their clients as strategic advisors, facilitators, trainers, and coaches. In each role, they work with their clients to asses and engage their challenges, take advantage of their opportunities, prepare them for success, learn and adapt in real time, and get the job done.
