Consulting for Business Families
When life changes, so does the business. Family businesses aren’t only affected by economic shifts — personal events often have a far greater impact.
Divorce, illness, death, inheritance, a new family member, a successor ready to take over or a founder who isn’t ready to let go.
Each of these moments affects not only the business, but also the family relationships behind it. That’s what makes family business unique: it demands foresight, preparation, and shared agreement.
That’s why we offer tailored advisory services for business families who want to:
- navigate change with respect and clarity,
- align family and business priorities,
- build a shared vision,
- • and anchor that vision in a family constitution and live it on daily bases.
A well-designed family constitution becomes a compass, it helps families keep the direction when facing difficult decisions or potential conflict. That’s when its true value becomes clear.
We’re ready to support you through the moments that matter most..
Our services
Facilitating family
council discussions
We help you set up an effective family council and develop a tailored family constitution.
Creating a
family constitution
We’ll help you design one that truly works. Not just one that sits on paper.
Consulting
and coaching
We provide individual consultations and coaching for members of business families.
Our experts
In individual consultations, you will be assisted by a team of experts with experience in this field:
Martin Jurek
Martin Jurek, Ph.D. comes from a business family himself. He is also a course facilitator with the International Federation for Family Development, an organization with consultative status at the UN Economic and Social Council.
Ing. Martin Jurek, Ph.D., MIM works at the Centre as Deputy Head and Academic Director of the Centre. He works as an assistant professor at the Department of Strategy, Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business, where he presides over the English-taught course Strategy and Succession in Family Businesses. He spent two research semesters at the Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna and a study year in the USA.
The issues of family relationships, goals, succession and finances within a family business are the subject not only of his research, but of everyday practice, as he works in a family company. Martin is a course moderator for the International Federation for Family Development, which has the status of general consultant for the UN Economic and Social Council.
Jiří Hnilica
Prof. Jiří Hnilica, Ph.D. is the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the Prague University of Economics and Business. He holds the globally recognized ACFBA certification and is trained in systemic coaching for both individuals and groups.
Prof. Jiří Hnilica, Ph.D. is the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the Prague University of Economics and Business and the founder of the Centre for Family Business. His professional specializations include family business, strategy and corporate governance.
Jiří Hnilica spent 5 months at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, 4 months at the University of Denver in the USA, and taught at Bocconi University in Italy for 5 years at regular intervals. He is a member of the Family Firm Institute, Inc. and holds an Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising.
The most requested topics of individual counseling
- owner assignment, ownership shares and their fair distribution
- property management, family office, holdings, foundations, trust funds
- decision-making platforms (family, administrative or supervisory board, board of directors, general meeting)
- communication and relationships
- family constitution or joint business rules
- succession, development and change
- family relationship to business
- who doesn’t/belongs to the family
- finding agreement on key values and visions
- employment of family members
- hiring external managers
