Family Business Mentoring
The Family Business Mentorship Program
The Family Business Mentorship program is specifically for the family members in your family business. You must be in the business and in the family. We require that at least one family member acts as a stakeholder. You can have more than one stakeholder, but all stakeholders must attend our mentorship sessions. These are private meetings between your stakeholders and our founder. Each session is between 1 and 2 hours. Bi-weekly meetings are the recommended minimum level of engagement.
We will address the business challenges as we do in our Executive Mentorship program, but we will keep the family and the business in the center of the room.
This access is personal, does not scale, and our mentorship enrollment is extremely limited.
You commit to showing up to work on your business, and we commit to supporting you along the way.
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Bi-Weekly Meetings with our founder (1 to 2 hours each).
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Email and Phone inter-meeting support (24-hour turn-around).
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Highly limited and selective engagement.
Challenges for Family Business
- Establishing clear roles and responsibilities for each member.
- Balancing the tension between familial relationships and professional goals.
- Ensuring effective communication between family members and employees.
- Handling disagreements among siblings or other relatives in an unbiased manner.
- Facilitating open dialogue about decisions that affect the entire business.
- Distributing resources equitably while meeting individual goals.
- Recognizing potential conflicts of interest within the family business structure.
- Developing strategies for succession planning and grooming new leaders in the family business.
What is it NOT
We are not your legal team, your accounting firm, your downstream leadership coaches, nor are we your investment banker. We are the support to the family business leaders within the organization. We challenge you and provide an outside perspective while helping you maximize the upside, cover the downside and make better decisions for your business and your family.
Who is it FOR
This is a program for the family members in the family business. We will challenge you to take action to grow your business, protect the asset, and secure your family's future. You must be willing to be vulnerable, and we must have chemistry.
Why do you NEED IT
If you are in a family business, sometimes it gets messy, and sometimes you put off the critical functions that will protect your family as the business grows or as plans and circumstances change. The truth is, you already know if you need this program.