It is a challenge to build a business, and it is a challenge to raise a family. Combining the two can lead to either disastrous failure or deep fulfillment. With over twenty years of consulting, counseling, and leading retreats with business families, David brings a practical, down-to-earth and personal approach to building successful and lasting business families. His energy will inspire you to take a closer look at your beliefs and guide you to find deeper connections in your most important relationships. He will show you how to use your business as a tool to build what matters most in your family and personal lives.
Whether you hire David to present an inspirational keynote address or engage with him in a more intensive learning experience, you will leave with a renewed sense of perspective for your business and your life, and practical tools for building a sustainable business family.
David Irvine offers a wide range of dynamic and interactive seminars and keynote address for developing cohesive, respectful, and effective relationships in a family business. His programs equip business families to:
- Assess how well your family functions as a team, and ways to improve teamwork in your family.
- Set up optimal governance structures and processes that guide you in effective communication, planning, and decision-making.
- Structure your business family so that family relationships – including family meetings and family councils - work effectively within the business.
- Align values and goals within the family and the business that lead to deep fulfillment with all family and business members.
- Build trust and connections between family members – both inside and outside of the business - that will ensure respect and responsibility into the next generation.
- Build your business family on the solid foundation of strong character - replacing entitlement with accountability.
- Open the lines of communication between all family members, with particular emphasis on building bridges across generations that will lead to respect and good-will.
- Work through conflict toward understanding. Leave with strategies for effective family problem solving, turning destructive arguments and tension into constructive dialogue and action.
- Manage the transition of succession in a way that will pull your family together at a time when it may seem as though it is falling apart.
- Foster accountability in children of affluence.
- Ensure accountability, leadership, and success into the next generation through clear personal goals and aligned values with well-defined accountabilities and consequences.
- Develop a practical and proven process for accountability that replaces fear and blame with ownership and trust, increases the quality of engagement and commitment of everyone in the business and the family, builds trust and cohesiveness, unleashes human potential, and gets a grip on results that matter most to all stakeholders. The result is that you can let go, with confidence, when you delegate.
All members of your family in and out of the business are invited to attend these compelling, thought-provoking, and powerful programs. You will leave with awareness and practical tools for dealing with the tough issues that often get ignored.
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