The dynamics in business families can be traumatizing for young children and these traumas will carry on into adulthood. In adulthood, the effects lead to certain behaviours and toxic dynamics in the family, which can put the family’s wealth at risk. Understanding trauma and working through it is the basis of broken families finding a way to come together again.

Every family has to deal with succession planning in some form or another. By using Design Thinking the succession planning process can be enhanced to reap better results. Design Thinking puts the involved family members at the center of the process and evolves around their needs.