Family therapist on family businesses: Policies and preparation are musts

Dennis Jaffe helps family businesses facing friction "sit down and have a conversation, which feels fair and so they can listen to each other. You slow things down."

By Jim Stinson
| 5:00 a.m. April 11, 2024
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Dennis Jaffe is an in-demand consultant regarding family businesses.

Florida

The family that does business together needs to have policies together.

That's the opinion of Dennis Jaffe, a senior research fellow at BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors in San Francisco. Jaffe recently spoke at the third annual Resnick-Wynn Family Business Conference, held Feb. 29 at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers.

It's easy to understand why he is sought. Jaffe has an alphabet behind his name: A Yale University bachelor's degree in philosophy, a master's in business from Yale, a sociology doctorate from Yale.