Most family businesses fail to transition to the next generation due to a lack of next-generation preparedness, current generation unwillingness to step back, poor communication, and outright conflict.
Henry Hutcheson, coming from two prominent family businesses, founded Family Business USA specifically to help family businesses successfully transition their family business and improve family harmony. Dirty Little Secrets to Family Business is a guide to understanding the complex dynamics of family businesses to resolve the family and business issues inherent in them.
Henry has an MBA in Management from Columbia Business School, studied psychology in Switzerland, is a Certified Management Consultant and has a certificate from the Harvard Negotiations Program. He was a family business columnist for three newspapers, is a Newsweek Expert, and has been quoted in Forbes, Fortune, and the WSJ.
Henry has helped hundreds of family businesses successfully cope with succession.