A small firm, by intention.
D. Lemma & Associates was founded on a working belief: the consequential problems an institution faces are too few to be delegated to a process, and too important to be solved without one.
Elizabeth Lemma
Managing Partner · Mediator · Strategist
Elizabeth founded the practice in response to the persistent conflicts domestically and internationally requiring unique resolutions. Her experience practicing with thousands of patients over the years have given her the unique experience necessary to provide optimal resolutions, strategic planning, and calming communication for the general public.
Her techniques are centered in observation, research, inquiries, and most critically, centered in time. The moment a business card enters a client's hand, or their fingers find the keys to bring them here, their time is never wasted. The answers are right in front you, in logo and in name. Engagements begin with a period of deliberate listening — interviews, documents, the long pauses that surface what was never written down. Only then is structure imposed.
The ultimate objective is to decipher the coded communication hidden between two parties utilizing the knowledge gained in study and in practice and encourage both entities to come to a resolution. Elizabeth also focuses her efforts finding innovative technology to advance our society and as time permits, put on a show.
What we believe
about the work.
Listening is the first instrument.
We treat the first weeks of an engagement as a structured act of attention — not a setup for our prior method.
Disagreement is information.
When stakeholders pull in different directions, the geometry of the disagreement usually contains the answer.
Whitespace is not luxury.
We resist filling the calendar, the deck, and the room. Most decisions are improved by less, applied with care.
We are accountable to the outcome.
Our work is judged by the durability of the decision, not the elegance of the deliverable.
"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
— WILLIAM WORDSWORTH