Kenneth Kaye, Ph.D., M.F.A.
Ken Kaye earned his A.B. (1966) and Ph.D. (1970) degrees from Harvard University. He was a Knox Fellow at the University of Cambridge, England. Later he trained in family therapy at the Family Institute of Chicago.
Kaye has published dozens of articles and books for professional advisors as well as family business members about resolving the disputes, rifts, and intergenerational tensions that threaten to hobble their enterprises. The books most descriptive of his work with family firms are Workplace Wars and How to End Them: Turning Personal Conflicts into Productive Teamwork (AMACOM Books, 1994) and The Dynamics of Family Business (iUniverse, 2005).
His latest book is Trust Me: Helping Our Young Adults Financially, co-authored with Nick Kaye.
A former faculty member at Northwestern University’s Institute of Psychiatry, Dr. Kaye participates regularly in the Dispute Resolution group at the university’s Kellogg School of Management. He has served on numerous editorial boards and advisory boards, including the Board of Overseers of the Institute of Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology, the Board of the One-to-One Learning Center, and the Editorial Board of Family Business Review.
Ken Kaye is a North American leader in the field of family business dynamics, having established his consulting specialty in 1986. He received the Family Firm Institute’s Contribution to the Field award and founded the annual conference of leading psychologists who specialize in family business problems. Ken is also a long-time Advisor Member and Consultant to Family Office Exchange (FOX).
Ken’s consulting website is here. A complete list of his 28 published articles on family business dynamics is here.