DIVORCE - Key Persons

Barbara Badolato

Job Titles:
  • Certified Social Worker
Barbara Badolato is a certified social worker and holds a master degree from Adelphi University, School of Social Work. In working with couples in divorce mediation for more than 30 years, she has had a great deal of experience working with the emotional aspects and financial concerns of couples going through a separation and divorce.

Helise Harrington

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Lenard Marlow, JD, Retired
Helise Harrington, JD spent over 20 years negotiating business agreements for companies ranging in size from multi-national corporations to family businesses. For six years she was Diversity Partner for an AmLaw 100 law firm where she mediated conflicts in the workplace and coached attorneys and staff in a multitude of areas. Helise currently practices as a family and divorce mediator and conflict resolution coach. She trained with the Center for Understanding in Conflict, the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Westchester and Rockland Mediation Centers of CLUSTER, INC., NYSDRA, the Dispute Resolution Section of the NYS Bar Association, the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals and the Coach Training Alliance. Helise received a J.D. from New York University of Law, an M.A. in African History from Columbia University and a B.A. with distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University. She is a member of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation, Pace University's Moderate Means Divorce Panel, NYSDRA, the Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association and the Westchester Women's Bar Association and the Academy of Professional Family Mediators. She is a longtime volunteer facilitator with the Bereavement Center, the Pace Women's Justice Center and the Westchester and Rockland Mediation Centers of Cluster.

Lenard Marlow - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Founder, in Memoriam

Maren Cardillo Elbaum - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Legal Director
Maren Cardillo Elbaum, Legal Director, has been practicing for nearly two decades exclusively as an attorney-mediator at Divorce Mediation Professionals. She received training in divorce mediation at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City.