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Balancing family and business needs with individuals’ skills and aspirations and forming healthy partnerships and collaboration between members of various generations, are at the foundation of successful continuity. AMI’s expertise in personal development and in partnerships’ relations, help our clients reach new solutions, define suitable roles and develop effective multi-generational partnerships.

Together with key family members, AMI helps the family business to make optimal placement decisions and promote executive development while taking sensitive family needs and professional business requirements into consideration.

Successful succession is based on a fine euqilibrium between business needs and individual aspirations and capabilities of the younger generation. It requires the establishment of inter-generation partnerships, as well as partnerships among siblings and cousins of the same generation. Our expertise in the development of careers and in the creation of partnerships, together with our understanding of organizations and management, enables each family member to choose an appropriate career path, while assuring the needed synchronization with business needs and organization structure.

Making a decision to sell a family business and carrying out the process while keeping family relations intact is a challenge that requires professional guidance. Likewise, investors wishing to invest in a family-owned business would profit from a due diligence process that assesses the internal make-up of the business including ownership, management, organizational culture and the potential for partnership. AMI works with business owners and investors alike to bring the selling of a family business to a successful and fruitful finish for both sides.

Board of Directors and Family Councils are necessary governance systems, which provide responsible management of the family and the business, and protect one from the other. We guide our clients through the process of establishing governance systems, help them select external board members and accompany the Board and the Council through the launch period.

Once clear differentiation has been created between ownership, management and family, AMI assists its clients in deciding on the Board's composition, finding external members to serve on the Board and monitoring the launch of the Board of Director.

For the business to grow and continue to provide for the family's growing needs it should constantly upgrade its management tools and personnel. We get involved in the design of management training programs, organization structures and managerial processes. We help family businesses to successfuly introduce non-family CEO's, when the family is ready for it.

AMI conducts 1-2 days seminars on diverse issues regarding continuity, family agreements, ownership-management relations and other topics. Seminars can be open to the public or custom designed for a specific audience. Attorneys, accountants and family business leaders are often invited as guest lecturers.