Family Enterprise & Family Office Advising
Family Business/Family Office Consulting
Jennifer is an experienced consultant to families who own shared assets, including operating businesses, joint investments, foundations, and family offices. She specializes in work with multi-generational families with a focus on relationships in the context of family enterprise, supporting rising generation engagement and durable family harmony by creating governance and structure. She works to educate and support communication to protect both assets and family relationships.
Transition Support & Next Gen Education
Jennifer works with families to navigate the complexities of relationships and decision-making through transitions. Transitions include succession planning, ownership transition, wealth transfers, next generation education, and more. She is especially adept at facilitating open communication, educating and fostering collaboration around rising generation engagement and creating space for productive conflict and collaboration with shareholders through consulting and family retreats.
Wealth & Values
Building on her experience both as an MBA and consultant with her formal training as a systems therapist, Jennifer openly acknowledges the complexities of wealth and values and nimbly guides families through ownership transition and wealth transfer. Her facilitation and support helps families to move forward with difficult conversations and to enables them to protect relationships in the context of values, purpose, and wealth.
“Sometimes all we need is just a new perspective.”
Jennifer Strom
LMFT, MA, MBA
Jennifer is the mother to college-age twins. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises at Northwestern University-Kellogg, as well as a lecturer and featured speaker on both Family Dynamics and Governance in Family Enterprise and Family Office at industry events. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and has a Master’s Degree as a Family Therapist.
Jennifer differentiates herself by applying both her personal and professional experience to inform her family enterprise advising practice, with a focus on complex transitions and relationships in the context of family business, family office, and wealth. She understands that when she is working with any client, they feel stuck, and she works with compassion and understanding to set goals and utilize governance and structure to facilitate decision-making and find purpose.
Family Business & Family Office Advising Services
Jennifer’s focus on multi-generational transitions allows her to apply both her consulting and therapy training to work with families to protect both assets and relationships. She supports clients through transitions such as succession planning, ownership transitions, liquidity events, and educating rising generation family members.
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Contact Jennifer today to learn more about scheduling and working together.
26 Imperial Avenue
Westport CT 06880