Bill Winter, Trusted Business Advisor and Mentor to Leaders and Members of Family Owned Companies
No one really teaches another anything. All we do is allow people to discover the truth for themselves. (Socrates)
I facilitate many family conversations, mentor and coach family business leaders and next generation potential leaders. This includes the conversations that are often too hard to hold. Families in business appreciate I understand the issues families in business face on a daily basis. My background is in family business from my first job through to owning and leading a successful food manufacturing company with a sibling.
My background includes board membership and chairing family boards, CEO roles, GM roles, consulting and mentoring. I have seen an economic roller coaster style economy and been through economic hard times in my business life from the World Stock exchange crash in 1987 and know how it hurts private business owners.
Inter-generational conversation were missing in our father's business and from that experience and, as a trained mediator, I work one-on-one with all family members and then facilitate whole-of-family meetings. This experience has been enhanced through holding CEO and general management positions at subsidiaries of listed entities and a program of continuous learning.
Did you know that family business data shows that:
30-40 % of family business leaders have not discussed the future of the business with their partner
50-60 % have not discussed succession with their children
82% have not discussed with their daughter or son-in-law
60% of second generation have not discussed family business succession with their partner
Following the sale of our family business I entered into the corporate world. A world of Silos, Politics and Turf Wars. However, the key lesson for me in moving
from private business to a corporate entity was the realisation that many family business operators lack the business disciplines, systems, policies and procedures required to sustain successful growth base. Knowing what I was missing as a self-taught business owner and what I could have done in my own business, I took on the challenge to work with private companies to help implement systems, disciplines and process without losing the family culture that makes a family business successful in the first place.
No one really teaches another anything. All we do is allow people to discover the truth for themselves. (Socrates)
I facilitate many family conversations, mentor and coach family business leaders and next generation potential leaders. This includes the conversations that are often too hard to hold. Families in business appreciate I understand the issues families in business face on a daily basis. My background is in family business from my first job through to owning and leading a successful food manufacturing company with a sibling.
My background includes board membership and chairing family boards, CEO roles, GM roles, consulting and mentoring. I have seen an economic roller coaster style economy and been through economic hard times in my business life from the World Stock exchange crash in 1987 and know how it hurts private business owners.
Inter-generational conversation were missing in our father's business and from that experience and, as a trained mediator, I work one-on-one with all family members and then facilitate whole-of-family meetings. This experience has been enhanced through holding CEO and general management positions at subsidiaries of listed entities and a program of continuous learning.
Did you know that family business data shows that:
30-40 % of family business leaders have not discussed the future of the business with their partner
50-60 % have not discussed succession with their children
82% have not discussed with their daughter or son-in-law
60% of second generation have not discussed family business succession with their partner
Following the sale of our family business I entered into the corporate world. A world of Silos, Politics and Turf Wars. However, the key lesson for me in moving
from private business to a corporate entity was the realisation that many family business operators lack the business disciplines, systems, policies and procedures required to sustain successful growth base. Knowing what I was missing as a self-taught business owner and what I could have done in my own business, I took on the challenge to work with private companies to help implement systems, disciplines and process without losing the family culture that makes a family business successful in the first place.
Advisory Board Specialist and Advisory Panel Advisor
Credible research proves a key focus on assisting private companies to establish an advisory board will take their performance to a higher level we greatly improve their performance.
An advisory panel takes the isolation out of your decision making and challenges your thought process.
Advisory panels don't make decisions for you, they:
- Respect your confidentiality
- Challenge your thinking by asking the right questions
- Use their networks and experience to assist your business
- Can act as confidential mentors
- Are not caught up in the emotions of family members
- Assist in understanding how to comply with legislation and regulations
Credible research proves a key focus on assisting private companies to establish an advisory board will take their performance to a higher level we greatly improve their performance.
An advisory panel takes the isolation out of your decision making and challenges your thought process.
Advisory panels don't make decisions for you, they:
- Respect your confidentiality
- Challenge your thinking by asking the right questions
- Use their networks and experience to assist your business
- Can act as confidential mentors
- Are not caught up in the emotions of family members
- Assist in understanding how to comply with legislation and regulations
Experienced chair of family business advisory boards and business owner forums.
Over the years I have been a business owner, a CEO, a marketing director, a lecturer, author, mentor, member of boards, workshop facilitator, and a specialist in working in business on internal culture change.In other words, I have been there before and experienced the roller coaster ride of being a business owner.
I am known as a safe pair of hands. Independent, pragmatic, and always asking the right questions to help make better decisions.
My effective results come from working with families in business. Facilitating the hard-to-hold inter-generational conversations relating to succession and inter-family emotions.
Over the years I have been a business owner, a CEO, a marketing director, a lecturer, author, mentor, member of boards, workshop facilitator, and a specialist in working in business on internal culture change.In other words, I have been there before and experienced the roller coaster ride of being a business owner.
I am known as a safe pair of hands. Independent, pragmatic, and always asking the right questions to help make better decisions.
My effective results come from working with families in business. Facilitating the hard-to-hold inter-generational conversations relating to succession and inter-family emotions.