The First Step Toward
Family Unity and
Generational Wealth
Transition.
Keep Your Family. Keep Your Legacy.
For $1M+ family business founders navigating
succession, sale, or transition.
You lie awake with the same questions. Who will hold this together when I'm gone? Do they actually want this? What happens to us, not the business, us, when this finally comes?
There's someone in your family carrying something that's never been said out loud. You can feel it at every dinner. Everyone can. Nobody names it.
The succession plan is done. Paid for. Sent. Never heard back. The silence is its own kind of answer.
You and your partner built this together. In every meeting you present as on the same page. In the car on the way home, one of you says what you actually think. The conversation ends there.
The wealth transferred. The relationships didn't. You tell yourself it'll settle. It hasn't.
Those feelings aren't the problem. They're the signal.
For over 20 years we have been helping founders and their families keep the family together.
You have done the legal work. The financial planning. The succession documents. What you may not yet have done is examine whether the relationships those plans depend on are strong enough to carry them.
That is the work we do. The trust. The unspoken expectations. The conversations that need to happen before the wealth moves. The part of this transition that no document can resolve.
Through the Legacy process, your family learns the specific skills to communicate honestly under pressure, move from unspoken expectations to clear agreements, rebuild trust where it has eroded, and create a shared mission that gives the next generation a reason to show up that is larger than obligation.
We have worked with over 5,000 couples and families across New Zealand, Australia, and globally. Every family works directly with Grant and Christine. Not junior staff.
We take care of the relationships the assets depend on.
Co-author, Complete Family Wealth
70% of family wealth transitions fail.
Almost never for financial reasons.
Breakdown in trust and communication. No shared sense of purpose. No agreed picture of what the family is actually protecting. The advisory industry devotes almost all its attention to the financial 30%. Your family deserves someone working on the rest.
The silence had lasted twenty years.
The conversation lasted ninety minutes. Your family is worth saving. We have never worked with one that wasn't.
We Know This
From the Inside.
We nearly lost what we were trying to protect.
Fourteen years into our marriage, while our photography business was taking us into Malaysian palaces and the homes of future prime ministers, Christine packed her bags. The marriage that looked successful from the outside had been quietly eroding for years. We were busy, building, travelling, raising three children. Every day looked like it was working.
The machinery underneath had been failing for a long time. We just hadn't examined it.
Our daughter Rachel said seven words that changed everything.
Grant sold the business. We chose the marriage. We did the real work. What we learned rebuilding what had broken became the foundation of everything we now teach.
We know what it costs to leave important conversations until it is almost too late. We also know what becomes possible when someone finally says the actual thing.
That is what we bring to your family. Not theory. The lived experience of people who have been where you are and found the way through.
Trained at New Zealand's first and most respected family therapy centre
Authors of Legacy, endorsed by James E. Hughes Jr., Dennis Jaffe PhD, Keith Whitaker PhD
Every family works directly with Grant and Christine. Not with junior staff.
Three phases. Every family. Every time.
We start with a private diagnostic. From there, two paths: private coaching or the Founders Boardroom. Our work is done when your family can navigate difficult conversations on its own.
Choose Your Path.
If you want to do the real work privately, this is your path. Whether you are preparing your family for what comes next, or you are already in the difficult place and need a way back rather than a way forward.
You work directly with Grant and Christine. Every session. No junior staff. Together you work through the three outcomes: leading yourself first, rebuilding trust and communication, and creating a shared future your whole family genuinely wants to be part of.
Wealth protected. Family united.
If you want structure, peer support, and a proven 120-day rhythm, this is your path. Every 120 days you meet with other $1M+ founder families navigating the same transition, facilitated by Grant and Christine. One practical Legacy training per session. Peer support from people who understand the specific weight of what you are carrying.
What Becomes Possible.
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Havelock North, New Zealand · Serving families globally