Generations
Focus Family Firms.
Specialized family business services & generational coaching.
The Generation Centre brings expertise to the unique nature of family-run businesses with a focus on the Human Capital and inter-generational challenges.
Relationships
What’s common to all families with businesses is the need to coach and advise family members on how to lead, how to fulfill their potential without conflict, how to address issues with non-family professionals and how to mediate the inter-generational challenges.
Structure
Family enterprises need structure as much or more than others – family councils to address education and resolve issues, advisory boards to bring professional governance, and disciplined practices for succession, performance appraisal and compensation to list a few.
Change
Transitions in leadership, culture change and the introduction of new family members to the business all require skilled change management practices including communications, coaching, feedback systems and human capital management skills.
Families
Every family is different. We’ve supported family businesses from $10 million to $2 billion; from a few family members to dozens, including:
The Beck Family
Noma Industries
The DeFehr Family
Palliser Furniture
The Gilgan Family
Mattamy Homes
The Koschitzky Family
IKO Industries
The Morris Family
Stewart Group
The Reinders Family
Maple Reinders
The Rice Family
Rice Developments
The Schauer Family
Proceco
The Stipsits Family
Branthaven Homes
Client Testimonials
“A decade ago I engaged Paul Gibson to assist me in assessing the Human Capital and Leadership needs of our family’s company. He has since became a trusted advisor to me and other family members on the challenges and opportunities of addressing family business institutions (councils, trusts and foundations) and relationships within the business. His guidance has improved our family firm in more ways than I can count.”
Fred Reinders – Chair & Founder
Maple Reinders Group & Family Trust
(Construction & Philanthropy)
“Paul has been advising our firm for years in a Human Resource capacity and in the course of that work, has often assisted in the highly confidential and nuanced activities more closely associated with operating a family-run business. I can recommend him without reservation to assist private business owners in addressing their unique challenges and opportunities.”
Steve Stipsits – President
Branthaven
(Developer & Homebuilder)
