Family Business Succession Planning & Executive Search Blog

When you work with a search firm, despite having internal candidates, you're not paying for candidates. You're investing in process. The importance lies in ensuring that people already in your system meet the same standards and are evaluated as rigorously as any external candidate would be. There's also a deeper layer to consider, particularly for family companies with internal candidates: addressing questions about bias.

In 2021, a family business advisor asked members of the Leef family to name the date when they would be “doing something different from...

Family businesses face a compensation challenge that corporate enterprises don’t encounter: how to structure executive pay that rewards both financial performance and preservation of family values.