Welcome to Family Business Strategies

Meet Rosemarie Brown and watch our short introductory video below.

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Go on – give us a call on 0800 765 837 or email us using the form below

Most Family Businesses are a potent, challenging and frequently confusing mix for their business professionals. Not here! At Family Business Strategies we understand the complexity that families who own or are employed within a family business have. We are experts with family businesses, and use ‘family business best practice’.

Family Business has been done since time began, and if you are going to put these two seemingly incompatible systems together – you’d better get it right. A great family business is unstoppable. A bad one puts the family at risk of losing everything.

Make no mistake, none of the great, long-lasting family businesses rely on luck!

The primary goal of most business families is to have a happy family and a strong business, both on a long-term, sustainable basis. Achieving this means getting a lot of things right: for the individuals; for the family; for the business and for all of them, together… meanwhile you have to keep the business going!

Our advisory services are designed to produce these outcomes, with every piece of advice and action directed towards solving problems in ways that work for all stakeholders, in the family and in the business.

 

Our Goal: To be an exceptionally effective trusted adviser to families in business.

 

Our Approach: We start with Family Alignment.

When your family is out of whack – with each other, with your business, and/or with the world at large – nothing seems to go well: either in business or private life. By the time we’ve worked it all out, every member of the family should have clarity, certainty and a commitment to “the Plan”.

 

Types of Adviser

Different types of advisers described here have nothing to do with competence and everything to do with their respective suitability. Family Businesses are precious, sensitive and complicated. They do not survive a lot of unsympathetic handling. You need to choose the right tool for the job:

Family Legacy

What are you leaving for future generations? To work on the family legacy is to work on family alignment. The process leads to family stewardship…

Family Stewardship

Stewardship = responsibility for looking after and managing something well.

When a family commits to Stewardship it’s chasing a form of immortality: potentially, if future generations get it right, the family can go on forever.

Professional Advisers

These advisers have qualifications, experience and good standing in one or more mainstream professional disciplines. These advisers tend to focus on the commercial aspects of your family business, and some ‘add on’ human aspects to their provision of service.

Family Business Solutionist

This is us. We add the power and wisdom of Solutionism, a much stronger focus on human issues from the very beginning (using professional psychologists and associated experts as required), and a genuinely collaborative advisory philosophy. More formal work, qualifications and research into the specifics of family business define our processes and our approach. Many business families and family businesses call this ‘the missing link’ from other forms of education, coaching or services they have received.
 

 

Although we are based in Auckland, we go wherever our clients ask us to!

Give us a call on 0800 765 837 or email rosemarie@fbsnz.co.nz to work out if Family Business Strategies is able to assist your business family or family business.