The Family Business Institute was organized nearly 30 years ago – the world’s first multi-disciplined consulting team exclusively serving family-owned businesses. Don Schwerzler , founder of the Family Business Institute, has been studying and advising family business entrepreneurs since 1967 – a career span of more than 40 years as a family business troubleshooter.

“If there is any one lesson I have learned in working with many hundreds of family businesses, it is that every family business is unique and complex in its own way,” says Schwerzler.

“Troubleshooting in a family business can be like being in a room of mirrors - each reflection or memory is slightly altered, each in a different way - for every member of the family.”

“For a family business troubleshooter, it is often difficult to identify reality from carefully constructed and long-held memories, even fantasies - and difficult to discern cleverly worded fictions,” notes Schwerzler.

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