Victoria Brown, FEA CPCC ACC 604-764-7218
Family Business Facilitator, Communication Catalyst victoria@legacyfamilybusiness.com

3 Ways I Help Family Businesses Secure Their Legacy….

Your Family’s Peace Love & Strength

We all need and want our families to be our spring board to help us move forward and a safety net when things get rough. In Family Enterprises if the relationships aren’t going well, it throws the balance off for the family, business and ownership sub systems.

I help build alignment, cohesive communication, a shared vision and processes to build and maintain peace and prosperity into the future.

Your Future Leadership

Passing the torch has many complexities. Does the successor have the capabilities, desires and commitment?

What are the gaps in the company that need to be filled in order for the founder to experience more freedom instead of being trapped with daily operations and challenges?

What are the strengths of future heirs? How can we play to their strengths so they can lead most effectively?

Effective business families bring in outside expertise to help train and mentor successors.
My leadership development process grows capabilities and confidence of both family members and non family members who are essential to the continuity of the business.

Explore New Path & Passions

It’s challenging to look beyond the business when you feel you can’t step away from the day-to-day operations. Structures need to be put in place so future leadership can manage daily operations and founders can step back. However, the procrastination of succession is often due to more emotional reasons. Founders usually have their identity tied to the business. They ask themselves, “If I leave the business how will I be significant? What would I even do?”

If our identity in mid-life has been largely built around our work, our relationship, our family, our children, our environment, our social life etc., the parts of ourselves that we’ve suppressed (to gain acceptance along the way) expands while the things we’ve built our identity around begin to contract. We feel tired, bored, lost and out of sorts.

Mid-life might be our quest to discover who we really are, our true essence.
I help founders ignite their torch and recalibrate their compass by exploring their true essence – who they are and what fulfills them through a fun, exhilarating process. Discover how saying no makes room for a bigger yes. Face the reality of the gaps in the business if you were gone tomorrow to secure the future of your family business. Examine what barriers may be preventing you from stepping into a new, bigger stage of life.

What Clients Are Saying

“I was doing almost everything. Although I love what I do, I felt overwhelmed. Plus, as I’m getting older, I know I want my business to be here when I’m gone. What I created is so valuable for people with disabilities, who otherwise might have never had the opportunity to travel, see the world, and make new friends.

That’s why I decided to work with Victoria. She was an expert at coaching me into figuring out what I needed to do. Together, we created a step-by-step action plan to take things off my plate and retire while my business continues to help people with disabilities travel.

With Victoria’s help, I’ve started to delegate more. We even hired another person in the office to handle simple tasks while I focus on doing what I love and making my vision for the business a reality. I also know exactly what I need to do to make sure my business is here even after I’m not.”

Patricia McFarlane

Founder , Special Vacations