Stewarding Your Legacy, Together

 Become a Generative Family

We help entrepreneurial families extend their legacies by facilitating family meetings in which they resolve conflict, develop policies and governance structures, navigate succession, and focus their giving. 

Congratulations! You've created a successful business and a legacy with potential to enhance the lives of your descendants and community for years to come. 

Maximizing the potential of your legacy requires a level of stewardship rarely attained by family businesses. We exist to help your family become what a leading researcher calls generative: 

“Generative families are masters at blending the best features of business and family. The family nature of generative families ... influences the values and the culture of business to take a longer-term and broader view of its purpose and policies. The business in turn influences the many family members, not only by providing wealth but also by offering opportunities to take on roles in society that aim at the greater good. In generative families, there is a virtuous circle of family and business influence.” (Jaffe, Dennis T. Borrowed from Your Grandchildren: The Evolution of 100-Year Family Enterprises, John Wiley & Sons, 2020. p. 19)  

Our facilitation will help your family create and sustain this virtuous circle - to become generative. 

Don't sleep on Nap Town! Indianapolis plays an integral part in a synergistic trend of business development transforming the American Midwest. Once labeled the Rust Belt, “the 20-state region between the Appalachians and the Rockies has been regaining its mojo after years of economic stagnation.” (Barron’s Magazine, 4/12/25) Family Business Facilitators plays a supporting role by assisting family enterprises with troubleshooting and optimization. 

• Population Growth – In 2024 the heartland’s population grew at a faster rate than the rest of the nation for the first time since 1959. The pandemic started the trend, and it endures because of affordability, quality of life, and economic opportunity. 
• Investment – Nonresidential business capital expenditures within the heartland region totaled $76.9 billion in 2023, with average annual growth up 9.43% since the onset of the pandemic. Postpandemic business investment in the region has outpaced investment in non-heartland states for the first time in two decades. 
• Employers, GDP – Growth rate in the number of employers and annual GDP both also outpaced the rest of the nation from 2020-2023. “This marked the first time since the 1970s that the nation’s midsection generated greater economic momentum than coastal and other regions.” 
• Indiana a Leader - Our state leads other Midwestern states in GDP growth since the pandemic. In the past three years we have attracted nearly $100B in capital investment, with 70% coming from companies already operating here who see Indiana as the right place for long-term growth. - State Rep. Danny Lopez  (IBJ 04/25/25)
• Human Health - "When you look at the cost of doing business in Indiana, when you look at the talent that's available from the universities, when you look at the established industry presence of huge companies that are looking at the evolution of the future of their industry spaces, I can't think of a much better place for young startups in the human health space." - David Rosenberg CEO of IU LAB (IBJ 04/25/25)

Family Business Facilitators participates in Apeiron, a network of independent consultants in Indianapolis bringing diverse skills and experience to bear on the region’s thorniest business challenges and most promising opportunities. 

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