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Oct. 25, 2019

Gentle Persuasion

Not a fan of brute force, mediator Jeff Kichaven prefers a softer approach.

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LOS ANGELES -- On a wall in Jeff Kichaven's office hangs a framed drawing of a building. The drawing, he said, was done in the 1930s by his father, who would later work as an architect -- a fact that might explain Kichaven's own preoccupation with space and its capacity to steer the mood of the people inside it.

His downtown Los Angeles office might be on the 18th floor of a skyscraper, but it's nestled in a co-working sp... (continued)

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