Family businesses are often among the highest-performing and most valuable contributors to their sectors, offering long-term vision and employment. Yet reconciling family and business priorities creates unique challenges and competing pressures, especially as a family grows and a business evolves into a structured enterprise. Olivia helps current and future generations in their efforts to support their business by coaching them on their own development, their family governance structure, and the development of collaborative ownership based on a culture of stewardship.

• Leadership through coaching. Climbing the professional ladder in one’s family business comes with privileges and complexities. Seasoned coaching helps family leaders reflect on their challenges, leadership style, and family and business impacts.  Olivia can also strengthen interpersonal competencies and personal/professional balance. She creates a wise, safe space to reflect, refine objectives, and identify the means to achieving goals. Family leaders are empowered to optimize their performance and well-being.

• Addressing family governance. Family side of the family businesses needs clarity of roles, accountability, and an understanding of why the family owns assets together. Establishing processes and communication channels smooths governance, information flow, and decision-making. Olivia partners with family leadership to help devise the structures needed, such as a Family Council, Family Assembly, or Foundation. Building on family dynamics, on the management of conflict, she promotes family harmony and maximizes support for the business.

• Preparing for generational challenges. Family businesses face challenges specific to each generational transition, some of which are predictable and can be managed in advance. It is important to take stock of these inherent challenges to preempt the strain they can pose on family members and the business. Olivia partners with intergenerational family teams to discuss and co-create ways to address these upcoming hurdles.

• Developing stewardship. Stewardship is taking responsibility to protect and provide value to assets for the benefit of future generations and stakeholders. Business longevity and cohesive family ownership take intentional planning. Olivia works with family businesses to develop a culture of effective, collaborative owners who want to contribute to the family enterprise, whether by joining the firm or acting as an ambassador.

• Integrating external executives. When non-family members enter the business as major decision-makers, it is wise to offer the incoming executives time with a senior coach to understand how best to build trust, integrate into existing dynamics, and optimize their contributions. Olivia offers exceptional coaching to enable leaders to acclimate in their new roles.

Olivia supports leadership growth, family governance, generational transitions, and building a culture of stewardship.