for Business Owners and Family Members
for Family Business Consultants

the expert

As an expert in family business matters, you don't need us to educate your clients about the business and financial issues ahead. You already do that. You do their estate planning. You facilitate their succession planning. Our contribution comes when that work is blocked; your clients are in family conflict, or paralyzed by fear of conflict. Or the family's ability to work together depends on one or more members getting psychological help--you need assessment and referrals to appropriate educational or clinical resources.

Most of the examples on the Work page describe our collaboration with other advisors. Sometimes Ken plays just a brief, specific role (facilitating one meeting, for example; or counseling one branch of a family). In other cases he has become a long term member of the advisory team. He may consult to advisory teams without working directly with their clients.

Ken's book, The Dynamics of Family Business


Journal Articles for Professional Advisors, reprinted in The Dynamics of Family Business

Penetrating the Cycle of Sustained Conflict. Family Business Review, April 1991
The Kid Brother. Family Business Review, Fall 1992
When the Family Business is a Sickness. Family Business Review, Winter 1996
Comment on Mediation. Family Business Review, Winter 1997
Happy Landings: The Opportunity to Fly Again" Family Business Review, 1998
Mate Selection and Family Business Success Family Business Review, 1999
Roles of Trust in Consulting to Financial Families Family Business Review, 2004

Complete list of Ken's 30+ published articles about family business dynamics


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