Family Strategic Planning and Execution
We don’t tell families what they should do. Instead, our team works in a collaborative, consultative manner with a family to lead a process toward the direction they desire. This moves the family forward—with the family members owning the process. Families are able to talk about difficult issues and have the commitment to work to resolve them. Our strength lies in the context in which we work with families as partners. Breaking down the barriers to difficult conversations, addressing the challenges they are or may soon be facing and designing a pathway forward; a plan that is executed. Family values, vision and mission are designed to meet their objectives and goals in a way that is sustainable across multiple generations.
Articles
Building resilience in a family enterprise
In this article published in Trusts & Estates Magazine, Rebecca Meyer and Fredda Herz Brown explore the importance of individual and collective resilience and offer a framework for building resilience within a family enterprise. Read the Article>>
HOW TO MAKE LEMONADE: BUILDING FAMILY RESILIENCE IN CHALLENGING TIMES
Carolyn Greenspon and Rebecca Meyer discuss how big challenges present a great opportunity for families and family enterprises to build resilience so that they can survive and thrive together. Read the Article>>
Becoming an Enterprising Family
When a family decides to sell their business, the transaction that transpires is not purely financial. Fredda Herz Brown and Dennis Jaffe discuss how a family can evolve into a well-structured, diversified, financial entity, working together across generations. Read the Article >>
A Death in the Enterprise Family
Losing a member of the family to death need not spell endless turmoil for a family business, says Fredda Herz Brown, but rather a way for a family to clarify its raison d'être. Read the Article >>
Case Studies
Strategic Planning
A USD$50 Million partnership was experiencing stagnation. Several attempts to encourage future leaders to initiate new ideas only resulted in lost profits, frustrated managers and disappointed partners. Relative Solutions facilitated a management retreat for senior and middle managers, and partners. Read the Case Study >>
Defining the Need for a family office
A fourth-generation family enterprise was considering whether the time had come to establish a person and place to handle the business of the family. Read the Case Study>>