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During this episode we will discuss Leadership, Team Coaching and Conflict Resolution for Business with Banjamin Papa. Prior to forming Enneagram Solutions, LLC Ben founded and ran his own successful law firm, Papa & Roberts, PLLC, where he practiced law and mediation for eighteen years, as well as a training company through which he led trainings for hundreds of attorneys, mental health, and financial professionals across the country. 

Welcome Ben!!  

1. How did you transition from divorce mediation, practicing law and to focus on team coaching? 
2. What is conflict resolution for business? 
3. The Enneagram 
4. Tell us more about you and your firm! 

Melissa Gragg
CVA, MAFF, CDFA
Expert testimony for financial and valuation issues
http://www.BridgeValuation.com
Cell: (314) 541-8163
Bridge Valuation Partners, LLC
[email protected]  

Benjamin Papa 
Phone: 615-491-3597
Email: [email protected]
https://benjaminpapa.com  

Benjamin Papa excels at helping business leaders think and see in new and creative ways, giving them access to internal resources they did not know they had, allowing them to overcome previously insurmountable obstacles to success and growth.  His uncanny ability to be present with leaders in a supportive and thoughtful way while also helping them see connections and solutions to complicated problems sets him apart from his peers. 

 Prior to forming Enneagram Solutions, LLC Ben founded and ran his own successful law firm, Papa & Roberts, PLLC, where he practiced law and mediation for eighteen years, as well as a training company through which he led trainings for hundreds of attorneys, mental health, and financial professionals across the country. 

As an attorney he continually saw in his clients and colleagues that being successful professionally is not simply a matter of “book smarts.”  Instead, how effective people are – how well they know and manage themselves and how well they relate to other people even when under stress – is an indispensable element of true and sustained professional success.  Often in the midst of financial complexity and high conflict, Ben was able to support and advise his clients while effectively collaborating with other professionals to reach settlements in hundreds of cases, many with disputes valued well over a million dollars. 

That commitment to personal effectiveness at work is the North Star for Ben’s work as a credentialed leadership coach and certified Enneagram teacher, working to help business leaders be more effective in order to increase business success.  He creates breakthrough experiences for his clients through the following services: 

• Coaching 
• Workshops 
• Mediation  

When he is not working, Ben enjoys reading, hiking, dinner with friends, and Vanderbilt football.