Family Business Consulting A unified and healthy family is a critical component in ensuring the sustainability of a family business. However, often more effort is put into the business strategy than into the family strategy. Our customized engagements around family strategy provide a facilitated framework and safe environment for families to have respectful and productive conversations on potentially tough challenges and questions. Communication & Conflict Transformation We tend to judge ourselves by our intentions. Others judge us based on the impact we had on them. FBSA helps families disentangle impact and intention through the development of communication and conflict transformation skills. Conflict is an inevitable and, when done well, an effective part of family communication and progress. Instead of managing or resolving conflict directly, FBSA helps families examine and reflect the dynamic communication patterns families hold that keep them stuck. The combination of improved communication skills and insights about patterns of communication offer the opportunity to transform a conflict into constructive way forward. Coaching Next Generation Development Expectations of the next generation regarding responsible family business ownership and the role in the family enterprise can be high. Developing the next generations in a thoughtful and supportive way is a critical piece of successful succession and healthy family relationships. We engage next generation leaders to define a goal that leverages their strengths and desires and develops the skills needed to get there. Executive Development Family businesses are not static. They continually face new challenges across several fronts including changes in market conditions, ownership needs and desires, and employee bench-strength. Even seasoned executives may need to step into their leadership in new ways. Executive coaching provides both a safe environment and a rigorous process in which executives can accelerate their professional growth.