About Us
Let us help you bridge the chasm between perspectives and lead your business to lasting behavioral change. Our experience working with diverse industries, business sizes, complex subject matters, and the spectrum of personalities means you can have confidence in our ability to understand your company culture quickly.
Partners Anne deLain W. Clark and Kelly M. Stanhope have over 20 combined years of transformative communication and mediation experience. Their mutual passion for helping people and businesses create opportunity and growth by regenerating the culture of organizations brought them together.
Anne began her work life as a financial manager. She eventually realized that great organizations are led by people and not by numbers, leading her to take on the role of Coordinator of the NM Radioactive Waste Consultation Task Force for over 11 years. Since then, she has dedicated her career to advocating for the needs and concerns of her clients by building collaborative solutions. She is an adjunct instructor at the Santa Fe Community College teaching conflict management and resolution, and volunteers as a mediator for the State Personnel Office.
“As social animals, human beings are driven to connect, to rely on each other, to find common goals; this is the foundation of our survival as a species. Discovering the deeper needs and concerns of the people on all sides of any issue results in the discovery of more commonality than difference,” she says.
Anne has lived in Santa Fe with her husband since 1981. They have two grown children. She chose New Mexico as the place to call home after falling in love with the giant skies and unspoiled wilderness, an undeniable contrast from her New York City upbringing. She is a classically trained singer whose creative impulses include photography and collecting seashells and starfish, of which there aren’t many in the desert.
Education & Certifications
- BA, Economics, University of New Mexico
- MBA, Robert O. Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico
- Certified Coach, Executive Leadership, InnoVision Global
- Over 200 hours of Advanced and Interdisciplinary Mediation Training
- Trained Administrative Hearing Officer
- 2014 Quality New Mexico Examiner
Associations & Memberships
- Trusted Advisor Network
- National Organization of Trusted Advisors
- Toastmasters International
Kelly managed and grew the mediation program at the Santa Fe Magistrate Court for seven years. She has experience in all levels of business from the front line to executive leadership, which has honed her focus on the elements of successful communication, organization and negotiation. Kelly is an adjunct instructor at the Santa Fe Community College and gives back to the community as a volunteer mediator for New Mexico State Personnel Office.
A Santa Fe native, who takes great pride in her travels worldwide, brings a global perspective to all her interactions. She has lived in Mexico, London and Greece, and has been profoundly affected by her time in Thailand with her husband. She loves poetry and through it, the exposure to the diversity and semantics of language. She recently took up the game of golf and is still determining whether or not she likes it!
“I love coming home to New Mexico, the clean air, water, beautiful skies and land inspire me. We have the intelligence, creativity and talent in our state to achieve great things. I want to be a meaningful part of that,” she says.
Education & Certifications
- BA, Social Psychology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
- Certified Coach, Executive Leadership, InnoVision Global
- Over 200 hours of both Advanced and Interdisciplinary Mediation Training
- 32 hour training in The Immunity to Change
Associations & Memberships
- Trusted Advisor Network
- National Association of Notaries