How do I professionalize a family business?

Written By Jonathan Goldhill

Professionalizing a family business means introducing formal systems: hiring criteria, performance reviews, financial reporting, and strategic planning that allow the business to grow beyond what a single founder can manage. Disruptive Successor provides a practical 7-step playbook for this process, with specific attention to the challenges of implementing professional systems in a company where personal relationships and business decisions have historically been intertwined.

Jonathan Goldhill

Jonathan Goldhill is a family business advisor, coach, and author of Disruptive Successor. He helps next-generation leaders and founders navigate succession, leadership transition, family conflict, professionalization, and growth. His work is shaped by his own family’s multigenerational apparel business, which, after eight decades of operation, did not successfully continue into the next generation. Through The Goldhill Group, Jonathan helps family businesses strengthen communication, develop future leaders, reduce dependence on the founder, and build companies that can thrive across generations.

https://www.TheGoldhillGroup.com
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