(Even When Their Clients Think They Already Understand)
Sigrid Caroline Schroder, JD
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I Know what wakes you up at night,...or will.
Crisis Life-Cycle Management
Caroline assesses clients' businesses and circumstances to forecast and prevent crises, to mitigate and resolve active crises,and to encourage rebound of businesses by breaking the repetitive crisis cycle. Resolution may include business conciliation, neutral evaluation or facilitated negotiation. Her goal is to reduce the frequency and costs of transactional disputes, operational crises, personnel conflicts, and litigation. Through 4Dimensional Assessment (TM) Caroline analyzes your clients' entire circumstances through time, looking back through their business history and forward throughtheir goals. She has particular facility with issues including: intellectual property, employment, executive employment, customer and partner relationships, environment, governance, and real estate.
Long-term Strategies
Caroline can help guide strategic planning, development, risk assessment and turnaround. She helps US and foreign clients identify opportunities as well as risks, rationalize business models and business plans, develop products, restructure teams, redirect and broaden talent, and initiate strategic alliances. She can help realign splintered management and guide turnaround. She has helped clients hone their presentations, identify opportunities and succeed in fundraising. With degree and background in geology, she understands the earth sciences and landforms critical to your environmental assessments. She partners with her clients to craft successful long-term business strategies amid the dynamic uncertainties of global regulatory, technological, and economic environments.
Business Guidance from a Legal Perspective
As attorney and counsel, Caroline helps clients organize, clarify, and prioritize both advantages and risks as she helps move opportunities forward and bring problems to resolution. She helps her clients move quickly and surely into action. She understands the business and personal challenges which business people, including foreign expatriates, encounter when working and investing in the U.S.. Licensed in D.C. and Texas, she is an active member of the D.C. and American Bar Associations. Her analyses have been published in the Harvard Business Review and elsewhere.