How do I take over my family business from my father?

Written By Jonathan Goldhill

Taking over a family business requires earning trust before asserting authority. Jonathan Goldhill's Disruptive Successor outlines a step-by-step approach: establishing your vision clearly, building a team that can execute it, creating formal governance structures, and managing the founder's transition out of day-to-day operations with care for the relationship. The key is professionalizing the business while honoring the legacy, not choosing between them.

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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