Getting Serious About Succession
Last month’s news that Jeff Bezos was stepping down as Amazon’s CEO put succession planning in the headlines. But you don’t have to be the third bigge...
Tandem Partners helps business families create a shared vision, navigate generational transitions, and prepare leaders for their future roles.
Why Plan for Succession?
Why it Matters, Matters.
If you’re a business owner, you’re probably bombarded on a regular basis with pleas to begin succession planning. You can avoid stalled attempts, dead end roads and a great deal of frustration by following our recommended pathway.
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Generational and Leadership Transitions
To ensure success and continuity, we look at the whole of the family and business, create opportunities for building organizational capacity, support the development of rising leaders, and coach senior executives in transition.
Leadership and Team Development
We work with leaders and teams on the issues they’re facing now to build capabilities for the future, through leadership assessments, individual and team coaching, coach training for managers and meeting and retreat facilitation.
Organizational Direction and Performance
We help leaders step back from the day-to-day to focus on the issues that impact long-term sustainability, through integrated planning for business and family, alignment of family values and business culture and assessment of strategic potential and current opportunities.
We work to find a starting point that encourages dialogue to move the business forward.
Margaret E. Wilson, MSOD, PCC
As a leadership coach and business advisor for more than 25 years, Margaret Wilson has deep expertise in helping business families build better futures.
In addition to her professional and educational credentials, Margaret’s experience as a corporate leader, entrepreneur, employer, and business partner, all inform her approach to working with families in business.
- Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation
- Master’s Degree in Applied Behavioral Science, The Johns Hopkins University
- Certificate in Leadership Coaching, Georgetown University
- Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising
- Fellow of the International Family Firm Institute
- Instructor, Executive Alliance Effective Impact Mentoring Program
Based in Maryland, Tandem Partners has a broader network of affiliates around the U.S. providing locally-based coaching and consulting services.
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To increase the probability of a smooth transition, our Succession Readiness Worksheet will help you see where succession gaps lie and how to prepare the organization, the next generation, family stakeholders and yourself.
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1299 Walker Road
Freeland, MD 21053
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410.241.2369
Most leaders accept that at some time in the future, their time at the helm will end and the business will be given into the care of the next leader. However, just thinking about the transition can be daunting and overwhelming for the senior leader. If that weren’t enough, most owners experience their own succession just once. Tandem Partners provides the experience and professional guidance needed to move through the strategic, operational and interpersonal issues that are all a part of transition.
For families in business, success is not just measured in fiscal years, but over generations. Yet often, leaders are so focused on the day-to-day that they aren’t able to step back and focus on the issues that impact long-term sustainability. We help leadership teams assess where they are now, where they’re trying to go and how they’re going to get there. Our expertise in the areas of organizational strategy, structure, process and performance is a unique feature of our work, and integral to our transition management approach.
