MASTERPIECE MEDIATION™
MEDIATOR + FINANCIAL EXPERT, CPA
Simplifying Delicate Negotiations
Unique Financial Expertise to Uncover Opportunities for Huge ROI with Certainty
Keeping my clients in control for smarter resolutions
I’m deeply grateful to Great Day Colorado for helping me share how I guide clients to negotiate smarter resolutions with less emotional & financial drain. Quick 5 minute clips…
Psychology Today: Divorce is 2nd most stressful life event.
Navigating divorce demands time & energy, under stress, balancing competing priorities.
I offer my clients:
💫Intentional proactive process to cut stress & financial drain, achieving smarter resolutions-in half the time.
💫Unique expertise empowers me to be both Mediator & Financial Expert & keep attorneys out of the room-”on call” . With Attorney review of the MOU (legal binding document) we draft together, saving you thousands $$, often tens of thousands $$.
💫Simplified methods to guide clients to Rare sustainable win/win resolutions-for a flat fee.
WHY? Energy is precious
I ALIGNED my approach with Einstein’s quotes: “Intellectuals solve problems, genuis prevents. If you can’t simplify something, you simply don’t understand it well enough.
#1 Client Fact: My personal walk on this painful path-in which good faith was broken & my best interests were not protected & parties were not impartial, financials were not understood, in my first of several mediations - provides me deep insight & perspective. My unique financial skill set leaves clients vastly better off then when they found me.
#2-Regardless of who finds me first, I am legally bound to remain impartial.
INTENTIONAL Proactive guidance synchronizing 30 years of financial expertise-for huge ROI.
Flat Fee: for certainty of cost.
Negotiated resolutions carry serious ripple effects-so I treat each case as unique as a fingerprint.
Sherri Swain, Founder
Professional Mediator + Financial Expert
CPA (not practicing)
How is my Return on your Investment with me Unique?
The value of hiring me: you get Mediator + Financial Expert - a proactive approach, laser focused on simplification-resulting in tremendous, rare sustainable ROI with strict standards of Confidentiality & Transparency.
I have unique financial skills to quickly discern the real long-term ripple effects of your negotiations.
I thoughtfully LISTEN & take seriously all of your concerns, treating you with the dignity you deserve.
I deliver a meticulously negotiated Legally Binding, Custom-designed Masterpiece Agreement called: a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with crucial details of resolutions, empowered by unique financial simplification synchronizing legal & financial for innovative resolutions.
My passion is to be a LIGHTHOUSE of protection in an uncertainty storm-with huge Sustainable ROI.
Did you know?#1 -Mediation is mandatory for Family Law in Colorado?
DISCLIPINE DELIVERING UNIQUE VALUE : unique expertise AND compassion.
I will never let a client experience-being dismissed-your voice, dignity, good faith, & protecting all you built - all of of this matters to me, as in my own mediation I was dismissed…
The typical mediation process is REACTIVE. My process is methodically PROACTIVE.
My Financial Knowledge=your power to negotiate in half the time for less financial & emotional drain.
Navigating uncovered DETOURS when roads seem closed, but how?
I simplify pre-mediation prep via a Proactive FINANCIAL Deep Dive to uncover financial opportunities.
I calculate creative scenarios designed for each party to get their customized “REAL Financial WIN”- before you walk into mediation & in depth review to discern common goals.
Clients state they would have paid DOUBLE for my results I help them negotiate. I save clients THOUSANDS $$ with financial insight to uncover scenarios tailored to your needs.
How does my value translate into Rare ROI?
My Unique financial expertise Expediently Simplifies-with Patience & Empathy. I “truly get” how stressful this is.
#1-”Being on the clock” breeds uncertainty in total cost, keeping you in fight or flight mode, adding stress. My process is CERTAIN yet designed to PIVOT to your unique challenges;
#2-My Flat Fee equals less financial & emotional stress & most vital-gives CERTAINTY of TOTAL COST;
#3-Knowing how to use & leverage financial data CREATIVELY sets me apart & equals rare HUGE ROI to you;
#4-Empowering you to navigate multiple scenarios & calculating resolutions to save thousands;
#5-EARNING your attorneys’ trust & keep them out of the mediation room, “on call”. Attorneys find my MOUs (Memorandum of Understanding - legally binding document) Innovative;
#6-I can match you with a suitable attorney, who champions a holistic approach to negotiation.
HOW is Masterpiece Mediation™ UNIQUE?
I make the effort when & where it is MOST IMPACTFUL for HUGE ROI (Return on Investment)
What does this actually mean?
The FOUNDER:“The Outlier Mediator” with unique financial skill sets, focused on client’s real wins.
My depth & breadth of 30+ years of financial experience, coupled with my proactive VS the traditional reactive approach makes the difference for you in negotiations. I am meticulous. My focus is on simplifying financial complexities to help uncover financial solutions quickly, saving thousands $$, often tens of thousands $$.
I am kind, yet extremely direct in my professional & personal life and hold myself to the highest level of INTEGRITY. This truly means: instead of telling you what you want to hear, I tell you what you need to hear, charging a flat fee, & focusing on what you need to prosper long term.
I treat each case uniquely, like a fingerprint. My Flat Fee provides certainty you deserve.
After negotiating multiple mediations in the dissolution of my 20-year+ marriage, I took that insight, combined with my 30-year+ financial skill set, to help friends negotiate complex financial issues…long before I officially opened up my mediation practice.
Clients are welcome with or without attorneys. I have relationships with attorneys-in large, boutique, & small firms I can refer out.
The RIPPLE EFFECTS: Life has conflict. I came up with “the ripple effect” verbiage when I was navigating my own divorce as I saw first-hand the enormous future implications of my mediation results. How both parties respond to conflict has huge implications. My focus is to facilitate peaceful, informed negotiations-using my unique financial expertise coupled with kind, reflective listening. I calculate & present creative financial scenarious upon detail review of clients’ financials.
The MISSION & VISION: Through my experiences, my passion grew to design a mediation practice to help clients make key moves around issues & challenges I navigated-most notably that could not be undone (or so I thought) in my first mediation dissolution process. I had to go back to mediation years later-due to fraud in good faith negotiations I questioned - my concern was ignored. So, I know first hand how vital honoring good faith in mediation is to your case.
I take leveling the power imbalances & good faith very seriously. I was extremely vulnerable, despite my financial skill sets, as my son was not doing well-so as a mother it deeply impacted me.
Net: It was simply too late in the game-when I found out I was spot on-and I was forced to go to court, as other party was pressured by an attorney to not settle. I bring all these key learnings & expertise to the table so parties never go unprotected.
Net: My own experience makes me PROTECTIVE to ensure that every element of GOOD FAITH defined uniquely in your case-is upheld.
Net: I take my mission-to be a client’s Lighthouse in the Storm-seriously:
#1-Crucial for clients: my financial insight STREAMLINES negotiations for smarter solutions;
#2-I help “expand clients’ vision of abundance”-versus- “dividing up clients’ lives” -in a scarcity mindset; #3-I intentionally focus on discerning clients’ relational dynamics to enlighten negotiations & level power imbalances for insightful, equitable financial resolutions.
INTENTIONAL FOCUS & TRANSPARENT FLAT FEE: providing certainty amidst uncertainty. My unique financial expertise & intentional focus results in simplistic & harmonious negotiations-saving thousands with less stress. When I walked this path I saw pathways to mediate negotiations with significantly less Financial & emotional DRAIN.
More CERTAINTY: I intentionally do a forensic financial “deep dive” pre-mediation - while charging a Flat Fee to #1-eliminate undue stress with certainty of total cost;
#2-for more “fluid communication” vs worry over making a call/email;
#3-with an end goal: to help parties flourish with creative, win/win resolutions- in half the time-by simplifying issues- via my gut insight-derived from the depth of financial knowledge.
The WHY: The dissolution of a marriage is life’s most complex transition - I walked it & am on a mission to help clients navigate this transition with less financial & emotional drain. I pivoted to this space as I discovered other mediators do not have my financial insight to serve in a dual role-and saw how I could provide unique value to clients as both their financial expert & mediator-to expediently SIMPLIFY & SYNCHRONIZE legal & financial.
MY VALUE is INVALUABLE:
Unique financial insight saving ENERGY as you work only with me-saving thousands.
laser focus on transparency, upholding good faith standards, & setting realistic expectations - grounded in unique financial expertise & gut insights.
informing & simplifying all financial matters to guide negotiations to win/win resolutions.
proprietary uniquely efficient approach of Pre-Mediation Prep process that flows seamlessly, saving client’s precious energy, time, & thousands $$ of dollars.
personally navigated most divorce scenarios provide unique empathy & perspective - innovative financial, emotional, & legal insight.
empathy for clients’ “pain points”: #1-your family’s well-being; #2-maintaining your lifestyle; #3-cost of healthcare; #4-rising costs of living; #5-first-hand understanding of the challenges of disabilities.
passionate focus on reducing stress & conflict that impacts your children & your financial security - using my UNIQUE Prep Plan.
I walk my talk.
My clients help grant wishes!
**I have been volunteering in leadership roles for Make-A-Wish Colorado since 2016, long before I pivoted to become a mediator.
**I donate a % of my quarterly fees to help grant life-changing wishes.
2021 Walk for Wishes: Pepsi aka Mr. Cola: Pepsi brought pure joy & laughter to many, helping me grant wishes. The 2023 “Paws for Wishes” campaign honors Pepsi’s impact-of the hope he brought so many : click PEPSI to donate.