Family Enterprises
YOU'VE BUILT A BUSINESS. AND A FAMILY.
Now you’re navigating both — or you’ve sold the business and created a family office. Either way, you’re standing at the intersection where complexity meets emotion. High-stakes decisions. Competing needs. Multiple generations with different values. And everyone’s looking to you to get it right.
You’ve carried this responsibility for years. And it weighs on you.
“We couldn’t have asked for more. Thanks for all that you have done to help our son. He truly appreciates you.”
The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff
You’re up to the task. You’ve always been. But you’re exhausted.
The kids are growing up. New generations are coming in. Roles are shifting, expectations are colliding, and the conversations no one wants to have keep getting postponed.
The list of challenges in any family enterprise is endless. Ownership transitions. Performance issues. Conflict between siblings. Leaders getting older. The next generation living in a completely different world than the one that built the business.
And how do you keep the younger generations genuinely engaged?
this is where i come in
I’ve spent 19 years as an Arthur Andersen partner specialising in family businesses. I worked directly with Dr. Leon Danco, the founding father of family business consulting. I’ve been inside these dynamics for four decades — the spoken and unspoken, the rational and emotional, the business side and the family side.
What makes my work different is what I added later: a master’s degree in psychology and an inside-out approach. I don’t start with succession plans or org charts. I start with you — the thinking patterns and emotional weight you’re carrying that are preventing clarity.
The succession planning, the performance issues, the conflict, the next-gen engagement — these aren’t separate problems requiring separate solutions. They’re all symptoms of the same underlying dynamics. Once we clear those, everything else starts to resolve.
two ways to start
Most people who need this work know it. What stops them isn’t awareness — it’s getting to the point of real commitment. The distance between “I should probably do something about this” and actually starting is where change either happens or doesn’t.
Here are two paths forward. I’m starting with Plan 2 because it’s where the real work gets done — then I’ll explain how to get there.
Plan 2 — A One-Year Coaching Engagement
This is where we create the change you want. Not might — will. How far and how fast depends on you.
We meet twice a month on video. You are the agenda. Whatever you’re working to create — in your business, your family, your life — that’s where we focus. I take you there.
Plan 1 — Three Complimentary Conversations
Plan 1 is how we find out if Plan 2 is right for you right now. No sales presentation. No pitch. I’ll ask, you’ll share, and we’ll start to see your world clearly together.
Between conversations, I’ll give you a small amount of reflection work — about 30-60 minutes. By the end of Plan 1, we’ll both know whether a longer engagement makes sense.
“Don has been a blessing for me and for all of our family within the business. He has shown us a perspective of calmness and clarity I never knew existed. I truly feel more complete as a man and our family bond is stronger than ever!”
READY TO START?
If you’re ready for Plan 1, send me an email. Keep it simple — tell me what you’re wrestling with and that you’d like to schedule our first conversation.
We’ll find 45 minutes for a video call. I’ll ask questions, you’ll share what’s going on, and we’ll both get a sense of whether this work is right for you.
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU COMMIT
If you commit to Plan 2 and do the work, things will shift. Not overnight, but consistently.
The stuck business starts moving. The relationship you’ve been avoiding becomes workable. The stress that’s been your baseline starts to ease. You’ll make better decisions from a clearer place.
More importantly, you’ll develop a process for creating change that you’ll use for the rest of your life. That’s the real transformation — not just solving today’s problems, but knowing how to approach whatever comes next.
THE cost OF DOING NOTHING
I see successful people all the time — significant wealth, good families, respect, all the external markers. And they’re exhausted. Worried. Spending half their time on things they don’t want to do. They’ve ignored their own health while taking care of everyone else.
That’s not failure in the traditional sense. But it’s not success either. It’s the slow drain of living a partially successful life while the clock keeps ticking.
My clients stop tolerating that. They get clear on what they will and won’t accept in their lives. And from that clarity, everything shifts.
IF YOU’RE SERIOUS ABOUT CHANGE, START HERE
