Description

The foundational layer of family-business resilience. Governance & Structural Services help your family build the documents, policies, and decision-making structures that turn informal family habits into durable enterprise governance. Engagements include Family Constitution development, ownership policy design, board and family council formation, employment policies for family members, and dispute-resolution frameworks. Each is co-developed with FBC practitioners and reviewed by CBU legal and finance faculty.

Family businesses with formal governance report 31% higher revenue growth, materially lower conflict, and dramatically higher succession success rates. The documents produced through this category — Family Constitution, ownership policies, succession roadmap, transfer scenario analysis — would typically require $15,000–$40,000 in private advisory fees. FBC members access them as part of their annual membership.

Clarity. Every family that completes governance work describes the same outcome — the unspoken assumptions get spoken, the unaddressed questions get addressed, and the next generation begins to see itself as part of an institution rather than a personality. This clarity reduces decision fatigue, prevents future conflict, and creates a sense of permanence that transforms how family members talk about the business at the dinner table.