Coaching & Family Convening
Supporting high net worth individuals and family enterprises in taking wise action.
The paradox of wealth
Wealth offers many opportunities for high net worth families to pursue personal interests, professional ambitions, and community leadership roles.
Wealth also brings challenges. It can exacerbate interpersonal conflict. It increases the
financial risks associated with important life choices. It may get in the way of relationships,
including with one’s self. Wealth can activate the inner critic and discourage honest feedback from others.
In this way, it can be isolating.
This is the paradox of wealth. Within financial abundance are uncommon emotional and relational demands. They can lead to a scarcity of connection, understanding, and acceptance.
Wellbeing: a lasting legacy
During a long career in philanthropy, I experienced these demands up close. I felt the disappointment of being undervalued for my skills and overvalued for my influence. I saw the suffering that can happen within wealth, and its far-reaching consequences.
Eventually I felt called to address this paradox.
I believe that emotional and relational wellbeing within wealth is a meta-solution. As high net worth families experience deeper equanimity, the benefits flow into their many spheres of personal and public influence. It becomes a lasting legacy that emanates across generations.
I designed my coaching practice to help people build a mindful, healing centered, life force evoking, and purpose-driven life in the context of wealth.
That is a mouthful! But why aspire to anything less?
When wealth flows through a filter of wellbeing, it becomes an unassailable force for positive change.
I believe that is what the world needs.
When wealth flows through wellbeing,it becomes an unassailable force for positive change.
Joyful Stewardship
I call my approach Joyful Stewardship. It is the practice of transforming wealth into wellbeing through wise action.
Joyful Stewardship is a holistic approach to family enterprise that weaves the benefits of mindfulness and positive psychology with the discerning action of due diligence.
Helping individuals take wise action from a clear, grounded, courageous, and compassionate mindset. The aim is breakthrough progress on personal and professional topics, creating a meaningful and vibrant life in the context of wealth.
Holding space for families to discern wise action through a shared process of dialogue, learning, and collaboration. The aim is breakthrough progress on meaningful family questions in a way that promotes family wellbeing and legacy.