A look at how families can slow the decision down before it becomes a yes-or-no debate.

Why Family Business Founders Struggle to Step Back During Succession

A Blueprint for Multi-Generational Success For many years, succession in family enterprises was framed as a baton pass: identify the successor, transfer authority, move forward. As families grow more complex — with overlapping generations, broader ownership, and longer careers — that model no longer captures what continuity actually requires. Part 1 of The UHNW Institute ’s new whitepaper, A Blueprint for Multi-Generational Success, explores a structural shift from “one” to

I’m grateful to the editors at FamilyBusiness.Org for publishing my new article on how leadership readiness develops across generations in enterprising families. In conversations with founders and senior leaders, I often hear a quiet tension: a desire to prepare the next generation for greater responsibility while also protecting the principles and decisions that built the enterprise. On the other side, rising leaders often want to contribute more, but aren’t always sure h

I’m happy to share that I have been appointed Entrepreneur in Residence at the Bertarelli Institute for Family Entrepreneurship (BIFE)...