Read Lance’s ideas and advice shared with family businesses in industry publications.
Read ArticlesPurchase Lance’s books focused on how to make your family business better.
Sign up for Lance’s monthly newsletter with distinctive writing on family business themes.
Sign up for Lance’s weekly Biblical reflections for families working together.
Read Faith & Family Business Posts
Lance Woodbury, a partner at Pinion (formerly K∙Coe Isom), a food and agricultural consulting firm, provides facilitation and mediation services to family-owned enterprises working through communication and conflict, succession and strategic planning, family giving, estate planning and governance.
Learn MoreFamily businesses are an important part of the US economy, and especially the agriculture economy. Learn why succession planning is so difficult in this article for the Purdue Agribusiness Review.
Giving land to future generations can be a wonderful blessing. But, when coupled with some advanced estate tax mitigation strategies, it can complicate the family relationship. Be sure to thoroughly discuss the pros and cons of...
Why do we avoid conversation? Underneath the silence sit several questions the senior generation often hasn't answered for themselves. Until they do, the transition process stalls.
Management succession in a family business is easy to define but hard to do. Put simply, it is the act of transferring authority and responsibility to the next generation. In practice, it is anything but simple.