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Dario Drebenstedt is a mediator and Managing Director of QualitätsVerbund Mediation (QVM) gGmbH. He guides complex disputes in companies and families and works towards the standardisation and political recognition of mediation as a profession in Germany. Based in Stuttgart.

Dario Drebenstedt is a certified mediator based in Stuttgart. He guides disputes in companies and families in which the complexity of the situation demands a method beyond standardised procedure — advisory-board and shareholder disputes, generational family constellations, multi-party proceedings.

As Managing Director of QualitätsVerbund Mediation (QVM) gGmbH he contributes to the standardisation and political visibility of mediation as a recognised profession in Germany. The QVM unites the four leading German mediation associations BAFM, BMWA, DFfM and DGM under a shared umbrella of quality.

His methodical background combines systemic counselling and organisational development with the disciplines of crisis management and mediative procedural leadership.

Dario Drebenstedt is a mediator based in Stuttgart and Managing Director of QualitätsVerbund Mediation (QVM) gGmbH. He guides disputes in companies and families where complexity, significance, or depth of need demand a method beyond standardised procedure.

His specialism is psychological structural analysis — the precise diagnosis of what holds, blocks, or tips a situation. Methodically he combines systemic counselling and organisational development with the disciplines of crisis management and mediative procedural leadership. He typically works in advisory-board and shareholder disputes, in highly complex family constellations — succession, inheritance, division of assets — and in multi-party proceedings with structural depth.

As Managing Director of the QVM he works on the standardisation, quality assurance, and political recognition of mediation as a recognised profession in Germany. The QualitätsVerbund Mediation unites the four leading German mediation associations — Bundesverband Mediation in Wirtschaft und Arbeitswelt (BMWA), Bundes-Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Familien-Mediation (BAFM), Deutsches Forum für Mediation (DFfM) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mediation (DGM) — under a shared umbrella of quality.

Drebenstedt is a Certified Mediator, Certified Family Mediator, and Certified Business Mediator. His thematic focuses include the handling of complex multi-party proceedings, the integration of neurodivergent perspectives into mediative work, and the further development of mediation as an equivalent dispute-resolution procedure alongside the judicial route.

QualitätsVerbund Mediation (QVM) gGmbH is the non-profit umbrella organisation of the four leading German mediation associations. The QVM's task is the standardisation of mediation training, quality assurance in practice, and the political visibility of mediation as a recognised profession.

Seat: Berlin. Members: BMWA, BAFM, DFfM, DGM.