Event Summary

Part of the 2025 Fall WALA Creative Entrepreneurs Series collection.

WALA’s Creative Entrepreneurs Series is a series for creatives of all kinds who want to take the next step in their professional career by creating their own business. Explore the basics of forming a business for your creative endeavors, from deciding whether to incorporate as a non-profit or for-profit entity, to understanding copyrights and trademarks, to contract and negotiation skills, and finally to estate planning for artists and creatives and understanding the grants process.

Location:
WALA RingCental Video Conference Platform.
You will be asked to download and install their software to access each session.

*All sessions are online
*Attendees must register for each individual session.

• Session #6: Thursday, November 20, 2025 ~ Negotiation Strategies
(Select this date to attend this session)

Presentation and Q & A with:
Marjorie Conner, Attorney

Covered in this session:

"In business and in our personal lives, we are constantly needing to negotiate and collaborate with other people – people whose interests differ from our own.

Success in our lives therefore can hinge on how well we engage in these necessary interactions with others. This program offers attendees tips and tools for being a successful negotiator and collaborator."

Learn:

• the fundamentals of interest-based negotiations and avoiding the zero-sum game,

• the power of language in negotiations,

• what mediation is...and is not,

• when to consider facilitated negotiations,

• how to facilitate meetings and avoid breakdown and deadlock, and

• how to plan, prepare for, and participate in negotiations.

Marjorie Conner brings over 30 years’ experience in negotiation to this session. Marjorie has negotiated resolution in deals, litigation, the breakup of partnerships and businesses, and even disagreements among family members. Marjorie generally advocates an interest-based approach, using the other party’s needs to accomplish her client’s goals. Marjorie served on the WALA board from 2005 until 2012.

Visit MK Conner Law online at http://www.mkconnerlaw.com/mediation.html

The 2025 Fall WALA Creative Entrepreneurs Series is FREE for *WALA members.
*$20 per workshop for non-members.

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WALA programs and activities are sponsored in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. 

Event Details

• Date

  November 20, 2025

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• Time

  11:00am - 1:00pm

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• Venue

  Online