Family business leadership isn’t just about business – it’s about people, purpose and continuity. We specialize in partnering with family businesses to build a thriving, future-ready family enterprise.
Our expertise in management, psychology and human motivation helps family business executives navigate the intricate balance between personal relationships and professional leadership.
For decades, our proven approach has become the most trusted and effective tool to create positive and enduring behavior change in family business leaders, empowering family firms to turn challenges into opportunities and create a legacy that lasts for generations.
Many of the most admired and best-performing companies in the world are family-owned. With their long-term vision and ability to create employment, family businesses serve as the backbone and growth driver of most economies. Despite their inherent strengths, family-owned companies face unique challenges – from generational transitions to leadership appointments, from governance complexities to family dynamics. Interpersonal conflict is the greatest value destroyer in family firms. To sustain success across generations, family businesses must find the right equilibrium between family values and business goals, leveraging their strengths while effectively managing their vulnerabilities.
From family and leadership retreats to individual coaching with entire leadership teams, from succession planning to governance structuring – we empower your family members and owners to navigate these complexities and master new habits of trust, effectiveness and accountability.
With decades of experience advising the world’s leading family-owned businesses, our proven approach creates alignment, ensures thoughtful transitions, and drives sustained business growth while preserving your family values and enduring legacy.
Long-term orientation. Enduring principles. Measurable results. Our family business engagements incorporate our proven evidence-based building blocks on trust, effectiveness and accountability while being tailored to the specific needs, goals and values of your family and team at the top.
Each leadership team engagement is designed to align with your company’s specific strategic goals – tailored to your specific opportunities and business challenges, and integrated with your existing leadership model and values. We align and empower your leadership team towards its shared vision, unleash each executive’s potential to contribute to its shared vision, and enable your leadership team to serve as role models for the entire company.
We help your leadership team define your company’s values and cultural norms so that you can build a high-trust culture where great ideas thrive. By fostering an environment rooted in trust, shared values and accountability, we help your leadership team facilitate more open communication, creating greater clarity around their leadership roles and alignment towards desired business outcomes.
We focus on deepening the self-awareness and other-awareness of your leadership teams so that they better understand their own and others’ motivations. More specifically, we help your executive team address their derailers and cultivate heightened social and emotional intelligence. Our clients develop a stronger sense of how they perceive themselves and how others perceive them. Ultimately, understanding self- and others’ motivations improves the interpersonal dynamics, alignment and effectiveness of your leadership team.
We believe that leadership teams that value and prioritize learning are best equipped to thrive in today’s rapidly changing business environment. From quarterly leadership team offsites to weekly individual executive coaching, from tailored trust-building programs to targeted communication-building workshops, our leadership team engagements are designed to be ongoing, providing executives with the tools and guidance to sustain their personal growth and execution. It is a continuous journey, not a single event, that facilitates the growth of the individual executive as well as the collective leadership team.
We combine cutting-edge research and best practices in management, psychology and human motivation in designing a tailored approach to empower your leadership team to achieve exceptional and measurable business outcomes. Our differentiated partnership is founded on our commitment to activate purposeful and enduring impact.
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