Who We Help

 

Family Businesses & Family Offices

It’s not always easy to untether family dynamics from business operations in a family business setting. But here at Schema, we do just that.

SCHEMA helps families figure out how to work together, better. Whether creating new working arrangements, coaching individual members, or facilitating decision-making, Schema helps family businesses operate with greater clarity and grace.

  • New pathways forward when the old way just isn’t working

  • Reduced confusion

  • Better teamwork

  • Clearer communication

  • Clearer decision-making

Business Owners & Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship is an emotional rollercoaster, and leading is often lonely.

Schema helps owners find their flow state throughout the entrepreneurship lifecycle.

Whether starting out, scaling up, selling, exiting or closing up shop, Schema helps owners navigate the business lifecycle and the human lifecycle, with compassion, humor, and results.

  • Encouragement

  • Coaching

  • Structure

  • Time management

  • Stacking your bench with solid resources/professionals

  • Navigating crises

  • Facing retirement/exit

  • Emotionally preparing for transition, closure, or sale

Founders & Startups

Growing a team quickly is hard, and usually takes more than intuition— especially when your world-changing startup is reinventing the wheel.

Schema helps Founding Teams work together seamlessly and resiliently. By creating alignment between individual working styles and the overarching growth strategy, we create and coach team structure based on the needs of each group.

  • Long-term viability

  • Maximum scalability

  • Funding security

  • Camaraderie instead of conflict

  • Effective collaboration with investors

  • Rhythms of business

  • Hat-wearing choreography

  • Navigate the entrepreneurship rollercoaster

  • Provide relational alignment when visions and tactics clash