Successfully Navigating Multi-Generational Family Dynamics
Governance is the sheet music and modelling is playing by ear. Jim and Paul Warner, father and son, on families where each generation waits.
Jim Warner
Founder of OnCourse International; author and coach to families in transition
On the show
The Business Family Diagnostic · Relationships
If you won't discuss the elephant, you forfeit the right to complain.
Jim and Paul help families weigh whether to bring out what nobody says, and how to stay to finish the job. Would your family say difficult topics get raised and discussed rather than avoided?
“When there is a falling out, the people involved are able to repair it.”
Biography
Jim Warner is an entrepreneur, author, and transitions expert. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he founded, grew, ran, and eventually sold an international software company. After a three-year “midlife sabbatical,” he formed OnCourse International as the platform for guiding both businesses in transition and individuals seeking personal transformation.
Jim’s Business Transition work is a blend of CEO coaching, executive team development, and succession planning. The overarching goal in all engagements is productive, efficient, drama-free interactions among managers and leaders at all levels of the organization.
Jim’s Personal Transformation work with individuals, couples, and family units includes whole-life assessments, life-planning retreats, ongoing coaching, and life-enhancement programs. All offerings help committed clients to find a deeper sense of life meaning, to forge and sustain authentic relationships, and to live out their innate essence.
Jim and Judy Wells Warner have been married for 41 years and live in Boulder, Colorado. They enjoy enriching relationships with their three adult children. Jim is a YPO Gold member, and an alumnus of the University of Michigan and Harvard Business School (OPM program).
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