Dr. Dorene Lehavi, author of Business Partnership Essentials: A Step-by-Step Action Plan For Succeeding In Business With a Partner, is a business coach, former psychotherapist and relationships expert who has become known as the rescuer of business partnerships. She shows business owners how to beat the odds that 70% of them will fail by ensuring a winning partnership from start to finish. She created do-it-yourself tools to guide you from choosing the right partner, setting a strong foundation, preparing for the unexpected. Her one of a kind Business Partnership Agreement Template (BPAT) is the most essential tool to solidify a strong foundation. Dr. Lehavi's experience with partnerships clearly demonstrates how the quality of the partnership relationship affects the bottom line in either direction.With over 25 years professionally assisting clients as a licensed psychotherapist, a coach and an experienced entrepreneur herself, Dr. Lehavi’s programs have enabled breakthrough changes in businesses, and given courage, empowerment and clarity of vision to many entrepreneurs in both their business and personal lives.Noting that it can be lonely at the top, Dr. Lehavi's work is confidante, sounding board and mentor to solo entrepreneurs and business partners, inspiring and guiding them to make the changes needed to have the business and life they desire, as they discover they are more than they think they are. Dr. Lehavi is an adjunct professor at USC’s School of Social Work and member of the Board of Directors of LampCommunity.org servicing the homeless mentally ill in Los Angeles. She mentors at-risk teens with their entrepreneurial studies through Project ECHO.org and supports a variety of local and worldwide causes. Dr. Lehavi's M.S.W. is from Hunter in NYC and Ph.D. from University of Southern California Los Angeles. She coaches clients all over the globe using technology.