Unique financial expertise to SIMPLIFY complex negotiations for clarity & certainty achieving HUGE ROI.

MASTERPIECE MEDIATION™

Sherri Swain — Solopreneur, Mediator+Financial Expert, CPA

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I’m deeply grateful to Great Day Colorado for helping me share how I empower clients to negotiate smarter resolutions with less emotional & financial drain.

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Divorce is the 2nd most stressful life event. — Psychology Today.

Navigating divorce demands time & energy, under stress, while balancing competing priorities.

My unique approach offers clients: Disclipline that Delivers expediently:
WHY? BECAUSE YOUR ENERGY IS PRECIOUS.

💫An intentional, methodical, proactive approach to reduce stress & financial drain, achieving smarter resolutions-in half the time.
💫Comprehensive financial expertise serving in a dual role as both Mediator & Financial Expert, keeping attorneys out of the room -“on call”. I draft your Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), a legally binding document summarizing all crucial details of your resolutions, saving you thousands of dollars, with an Attorney review.
💫Simplified methodology to empower clients with customized scenarios designed for rare long-term, win–win resolutions for a Flat Fee.

HOW IS THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI) with me UNIQUE?

To start, most mediators are retired judges or lawyers, I am a CPA with 4 facets of financial depth & experience - over 3 decades…

Dual Expertise: Mediator + Financial Expert (CPA)

  • UNIQUE EXPERTISE in all types of investments, finance, & taxation -synchronizing your specific needs into multiple creative financial win/win scenarios

  • DISCERNING real long-term financial ripple effects of scenario negotiation choices

  • PROTECTING clients from oversights that could cost thousands $$

  • SUSTAINABLE long-term resolutions that protect all you’ve built, focused on both parties flourishing

A Pro-Active Process that
Achieves Smarter Resolutions

  • DISCLIPLINE that delivers-vs-typical reactive mediation, my approach is intentionally PROACTIVE

  • Pre-mediation FINANCIAL DEEP DIVE laser-focused on SIMPLIFICATION, resulting in tremendous, RARE ROI

  • METHODICALLY developed CREATIVE scenarios that uncover financial opportunity for each party’s“real financial win”

  • METICULOUSLY negotiated Legally Binding custom-designed Masterpiece Agreement: Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with crucial details

Faster Resolutions with
Flat-Fee Certainty

  • Resolve cases resolve in HALF the time

  • FLAT FEE model eliminates hourly stress & emotional pressure

  • SYNCHRONIZES legal & financial with less attorney hours, yet earning attorney’s trust

  • Clients SHARE that my creative customized resolutions were worth double value$$- acheiving RARE ROI

  • EMPOWERING clients to negotiate with calm, clarity, & confidence

  • THOUGHTFULLY listen & take seriously all concerns, treating you with dignity

Sherri Swain,

Mediator + Financial Expert (CPA)

Intentional, Proactive Guidance
Rooted in 30 Years of Financial Expertise

My process is fiercely grounded in transparency, strict adherence to good-faith standards-with a unique expertise to simplify financial complexities for rare long-term ROI.

The typical mediation process is reactive. My process is methodically proactive.

Negotiated divorce resolutions carry long-term ripple effects - emotionally, financially, & legally. That’s why I treat every case as unique - like a fingerprint, with thoughtful, intentional precision.

My approach is intentional & proactive. With more than three decades of financial expertise, I bring clarity by simplifying financial complexities, providing you with creative scenarios tailored to each party’s unique needs.

Clients walk into the mediation room fully informed vs uncertain of potential negotiation pitfalls. This-my “Edge” I offer calculates creative scenerios designed for each party to get their “REAL Financial WIN” before they walk into Mediation Day. My unique in-depth deep dive proactively discerns opportunities & identifies common goals.

Clients are welcome with or without attorneys. I have relationships with large/small law firms.

Flat-fee pricing ensures certainty of cost, allowing clients to focus on impactful decisions rather than a clock - translating into less stress.

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MY VALUE IS INVALUABLE.
Knowledge becomes power when it’s applied creatively and compassionately to streamline & synchronize legal & financial issues - for immensely less emotional & financial drain.

💫Most mediations focus on dividing what exists, reactively. My work is centered on expanding what’s possible, proactively.

💫 Through a proactive forensic financial deep dive, I not only prepare various customized scenarios, but calculate long-term financial implications of clients’ choices. My deep analysis uncovers creative scenarios to focus negotiations from scarcity to long-term opportunities.

💫Equally important are the relational dynamics & power imbalances that are at play. How clients communicate & respond to conflict within existing power imbalances can dramatically influence negotiations. I listen with deep empathy & focus on dynamics to ensure negotiations stay grounded & methodical. My disciplined process cuts stress & conflict that impacts children for sound decision making:
• Maintaining lifestyle & financial security.
• Solving rising healthcare costs issues.
• Scenarios for long-term financial stability.
• Solving unique challenges of disabilities

💫As you work directly with ONLY ME as both your Mediator + Financial Expert, communication is streamlined -saving time & significant money$. Result is fewer: layers of communications, misunderstandings, while also eliminating countless back & forth explanations you would pay for by the hour- for less emotional & financial drain.

💫My process earns the trust & confidence of attorneys. By delivering clear, methodical, simplified summaries to clients’ attorneys during my deep-dive on your life & finances - attorneys gain confidence I am PROTECTING both parties’ BEST INTERESTS. Attorneys review the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), however I keep them “on call” -not in the Mediation room-saving time, cost, & keeping negotiations focused, emotions controlled.

💫This is where greater certainty emerges: clear financial insight to simplify financial complexities, transparent flat fee, concise communication via a methodical approach for smarter win/win resolutions so clients’ thrive long-term, not just short-term.

The Step-by-Step of
your Masterpiece Mediation™

A proactive, financially simplified approach designed for clarity-synchronizing legal & financial issues to smarter resolutions=Rare ROI.

  • I listen with empathy & intentionally, take every concern seriously. Our confidential meeting where you learn how my simplified approach is uniuqe gives me insight enough to arrive at your flat fee by the end of our 1hr evalation of your case. I can either meet separately or together = each party fee is $250 for the 1 hr consultation. This it the only time based fee you will pay. No matter who reaches out first, I’m legally bound to remain impartial.

    No hourly billing. No surprises. My flat-fee model allows you to focus fully on resolution rather than the clock — providing certainty, transparency, & an easier ability to compartmentalize & focus on at every stage.

  • With 30+ years of financial experience, I analyze your assets, income, support needs, potential creative property division, & long-term financial impacts. I run multiple scenarios & uncover opportunities to get each party their real “win”. We meet for 2hrs one-on one separately after I have reviewed all your financial docs to review SFS to look at needs & ability to pay as well as an overview of types of your investments & assets.

  • Before mediation, I prepare you with clarity & confidence so you can make thoughtful decisions grounded in a methodical analysis of scenarios for creative a maintenance plan & division of assets which Incorporate both party’s needs & challenges.

  • You work only with me — I serve you in a dual role as both Mediator and Financial Expert. I negotiate a customized, legally binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with every crucial detail clearly defined. Attorneys review the agreement but stay out of the room “on call”, saving significant emotional & financial drain.

  • Shuttle clients and/or bring them together for IN PERSON Mediation to finalize all details of Negotiation from the Division of Assets to the Parenting Plan. Clients walk in with full knowledge of options & the other party’s position so Mediation is cut to max 6 hrs. 70% of negotiations are resolved via deep dive scenarios prior to Mediation Day.

  • In your own words, customized with every detail of your life - from airline miles, to child & maintenance support, division of assets, parenting plans.

Masterpiece Mediation™…Your Lighthouse in the Storm

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Masterpiece Mediation™…Your Lighthouse in the Storm *

I’m known as the outlier mediator as I bring 30+ years of financial expertise directly into the Mediation negotiation room.

My experience empowers clients, methodically clarifying & simplifying…for certainty - like having a light house when all else feels uncertain.

Most mediators focus on communication alone. I focus on the financial clarity that will translate into your long-term well-being.

My approach is proactive, meticulous, & grounded in integrity & empathy, kindness & respect.

My gift is in simplifying financial complexities to help uncover financial solutions quickly, saving thousands $$. Clients say they would have been willing to pay double for the scenarios I navigate them through & negotiate.

My Journey to Launch my practice shaped everything about how I approach clients’ needs & challenges:

  • It’s why I focus on being protective of both parties.

  • It’s why I double & triple check every single detail.

  • It’s why I focus on leveling power imbalances so negotiations are truly equitable & both parties are fully supported & protected.

  • It’s why I deep dive on investment allocations to discern creative asset splits so that each party thrives.

My commitment is simple: develop customized, financial scenarios around road blocks, resulting in rare ROI & a path forward when roads seem blocked or not financially possible. I’m driven to ensure both parties thrive.

Your Resolution Creates a RIPPLE EFFECT of GOOD.

Childrens’ welfare throughout & emerging from divorce is a facet of divorce I take very seriously.

I’ve been volunteering in leadership roles with Make-A-Wish Colorado since 2016. Currently, I donate a percentage of my fee revenue to help grant life-changing wishes. When your Masterpiece Mediation, your successful resolution helps bring hope & joy to the real heroes-Colorado’s wish kids battling life-altering illness.

Every case becomes a part of something BIGGER-a ripple effect of strength, hope, & joy - for Colorado’s Wish Kids.

Your decisions today shape the next chapter of your life.
Let’s explore your financial landscape & simplify financial complexities, to create a path forward that empowers you to protect your future & thrive.

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