For better or for worse, in family-owned-and-operated businesses, family dynamics impact operations. Business IS personal, and vice versa. 

Navigating normal life-cycles of both business and family development can be challenging, but is especially so during times of growth, succession planning, or crisis. Just as your business changes over time, your relationships and dynamics change as people grow. 

Here at Schema, we help families navigate changing business landscapes while preserving and growing relationship. Through compassionate and pragmatic coaching, we foster healthy and constructive dialogue to create clarity, operational resilience, and relational harmony. 

Family Business Consulting


With so many irons in the fire, it can be difficult for leaders to prioritize. That’s why owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs come to Schema. We provide:

  • Confidential sound-boarding

  • One-on-one coaching

  • Professional mentoring

  • Customized accountability for leaders who need more personal structure in their growth process

Executive Coaching

Organizational Design & Operational Consulting

(currently only offered for families in transition, crisis or succession planning).

Business leaders consult with us when they’re ready to take their companies to the next level. When you hire Schema, you benefit from the following dimensions of care:

Strategy: Tailor fit to suit your needs

We help you work smarter, not harder. A solid strategy from the get-go can make sure that the money you spend brings maximum benefit. We can help you shape your company into a place where people love to work--a place where culture and conduct facilitate (rather than detract from) your bottom line.  

We specialize in three key areas:

  1. Ground-up development - Building businesses, programs, divisions, or teams from scratch.

  2. Growth planning - Providing in-depth, customized strategies for handling new expansion and explosive growth.

  3. Course correction - Solving for current issues impacting revenue, efficiency, and quality of life.

Assessment: What’s your baseline?

Whatever the mission, learning how to navigate the variables that shape its venture is the difference between making or breaking. Schema helps by evaluating those variables and instituting processes to facilitate your goals. We offer in-depth assessment and analysis of:

  • Current operational systems, including strengths/inefficiencies

  • Existing risks and opportunities

  • Scaling potential (financial, operational, infrastructural, personnel)

  • Internal structure

    • hierarchical organization

    • assessment of personnel

    • team-building strengths, weaknesses, and obstacles

  • Resource utilization and procurement

We assess problems from across these spectrums, and then help you redesign systems that save your sanity: Personnel, Process, Proper Fit, and Proper Equipping. 

Streamlining processes makes everyone's life easier, and less stressful, and accountability tends to increase productivity while reducing resentment, bickering and in-fighting. Systems help you find and tweak your weak spots, without making someone out to be the bad guy. With less stress and more clarity, there is more room for relationship, camaraderie, communication (and work!).

Systems-Building

(not offered at this time)