Real people, real results

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.In other words, SCHEMA helps family businesses better navigate the “family” part of “family business.”

Family-enterprises are specifically distinct ecosystems where family dynamics and business operations often intertwine, creating uniquely complex challenges. Whether untangling day-to-day operations, long-term planning, succession, conflict, or significant change, we help our clients navigate these complexities, clarify decision-making processes, and facilitate harmonious outcomes.

SCHEMA is a business strategy consultancy with interim management services. We provide coaching and organizational design consulting to leaders of family enterprises seeking to grow more effectively, with relational resilience and operational efficiency. We help leaders find clarity out of chaos, and structure their operating models for maximum profit, sanity, humanity, and intergenerational resilience. Like therapy, but for your business.

We are currently taking on selective clients seeking to grow, manage growth, and scale effectively.

  • Are your family dynamics impacting operations? Need someone to help you navigate the tough conversations that you NEED to have (but would rather not?).

    You’ve come to the right place. Check out our Family Business Services.

    • Need a cross between a coach, a therapist, a cat-herder and a clone?

    • Feeling overwhelmed? Underwhelmed? Both?

    • Ready to retire, sell, exit, or just get off the entrepreneurship rollercoaster but don’t know what to do with yourself?

    • Not ready (or able) to throw in the towel, but ready to stop burning yourself out?

    You’ve come to the right place. Learn more.

    • INVESTORS —

      • Need to gauge the relational resilience of a founding team?

      • Want to ensure your investment doesn’t tank because a founding team can’t work together effectively anymore?

      • Have a CEO who should really be a CTO, and needs help arriving at that conclusion?

      • Need to ensure your potential investment aligns with your longterm Family Office goals?

    • FOUNDERS —

      • Starting a new venture with a family member, but want to clarify roles/responsibilities?

      • Want to build a founding team that’s ready for hyperscale?

      • Want to learn how to marathon your sprints?

      • Need help incorporating structure when everything is still in flux?

      • Have a visionary idea that’s difficult to communicate succinctly?

    You’ve come to the right place. Learn more.

    • ESTABLISHED FAMILY OFFICES

      • Need help wrangling multigenerational stakeholders? Getting everyone on the same page?

      • Need help establishing a cohesive vision, operations strategy, roadmap, and governance framework?

      • Need a facilitator/organizer for your Family Retreat?

      • Need help solving intergenerational dynamics, rogue family members, and spoiled trust-funders?

    • NEWLY FORMED FAMILY OFFICES:

      • Have a legal, financial, and investment strategy, but would like to create a plan for how to include future generations?

      • You know enough to know that you-don't-know-what-you-don't-know, AND would prefer to not reinvent the wheel?

      • Need to create an advisory board?

    • No Family Office yet, but Considering a Family Office Structure?

      • Someone's told you you should think about starting a Family Office, but you'd like to understand more about how that would impact family friction/family dynamics down the line.

      • You'd like to learn more about how other families do it.

      • You'd like help setting up an advisory board.

      • You'd like to explore having someone else quarterback the process of custom design-building your Family Office for you.

    You've come to the right place!