The Enterprising Family Program
from Enterprising Families
Thirteen modules, and a first draft of your family constitution assembled from your own choices, ready for the conversation.
US$495 for one person · US$1,495 for a family of up to ten · 30-day refund · Opening soon: hear when it opens
Take the fuller diagnostic, 79 statements. If you saved your free result, the Program picks it up.
Your result puts the eleven areas in order for your family. Short lessons and worksheets, one area at a time.
Modules 1 to 11 each draft one section of the constitution, chosen from a short set of options, so the family finishes with a first draft assembled from its own choices.
A first draft of your family constitution, assembled from your own choices, ready for the conversation. Each section offers a short set of options, in plain words, with a line for something else in your own words. Every clause shows which choice produced it. Where family members choose differently, the draft shows both and leaves it for the family meeting. Clauses with legal consequences are flagged and collected in one list to take to your advisers.
It comes out as a Word document for the family to keep editing, with "draft for family discussion, not legal advice" on every page. You don't have to start from a blank page.
Your family constitution draft
3. Who counts as family
To be agreed at the family meeting
How are council members chosen?
Tom: One seat per branch, chosen by the branch.
Sue: Elected by every adult, with a seat for the rising generation.
Each person takes the diagnostic on their own, and chooses what to share. The report shows where your views agree, and where they pull apart.
Example report · an illustrative family
Enterprising Family Index
Where you're solid
RhythmsStewardshipPurpose
Three places to start
Where your views differ most, here governance and succession, is usually where the real conversation is.
Every lesson in the Program. One is open to read now; the rest open when you join.
Start here
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Module 6
Module 7
Module 8
Module 9
Module 10
Module 11
Module 12
Eleven sections, each assembled from the family's own choices, module by module, and downloaded as a Word document. It isn't a legal document, and the Program says so. It's the agreement that sits alongside the legal ones.
Each module draws on The Business of Family podcast: 7th-generation principals, family office leaders and the advisers who work with them.
Invite up to ten family members. Each person's answers are their own, kept with their own account, and shared only if they choose. They can delete them whenever they like.
Three areas, one first step each, an owner and a date. Then a yearly re-take at your family AGM to see what has changed.
Pay for the sibling who runs the business versus the one who doesn't. Buy-outs and dividends, as questions for your lawyer. Who chooses the next leader.
Business families at any stage: founders thinking about what comes next, siblings who own together, cousins trying to stay connected, a spouse or widow who now holds shares and was never in the business, the family office running it for them, and families whose enterprise has moved beyond the original business. It works for one person on their own, and better with the family alongside.
If your family already has a working council, a constitution reviewed in the last two years and an annual meeting, you'll find this a refresher rather than a program. The diagnostic will tell you.
I first ran this live, with 22 families. Working with a small group at a time could only ever reach a few families, so I've rebuilt it as something you work through at your own pace: the same work, with what I've learned since and what my podcast guests have taught me, so it can help far more families than I could ever sit with.
When it launched, some people whose work I respect said this:
“Thank you, Mike, for bringing this initiative to life. It's a wonderful gift you have given us all.”
“Mike Boyd has become the one name I point folks to asking about generational wealth transfers.”
“The content that Mike surfaces is generally hidden from normal folks.”
US$495
All lessons and worksheets, the constitution builder (a one-person draft, labelled as one person's view), your own fuller diagnostic. Bring the family in later for US$1,000 more.
US$1,495
Up to ten people, each in control of their own result and their own constitution choices, the comparison, the family's draft with its differences shown, and access for as long as the Program is offered.
By conversation
More than ten people, or several branches with a family council. Write to me and we'll work out what fits.
One family means up to ten people. If it isn't useful, tell me within 30 days and you'll get your money back. Prices are in US dollars, and payment is through Stripe. The Program is provided by Enterprising Families under the Program terms.
Opening soon
Leave your email and I'll tell you the day it opens. Until then, you'll get my newsletter, built on the same ideas as the Program. Unsubscribe any time.
For families who want to go further, I also work on a Family Enterprise Strategy, and as an independent chair of the family council. This work is done through Enterprising Families, and each engagement is agreed in a written engagement letter before it starts. See how Enterprising Families works.
Mike Boyd, Enterprising Families