Farm Family Podcast: Episode 36 - The Future Leader, The Successor’s Guide to Family Business Leadership

Episode 36: The Future Leader, The Successor’s Guide to Family Business Leadership

In this episode, my guest is Patti Durand – author, speaker, facilitator, and mediator ​​specializing in succession planning for family businesses. Patti has just released her first book, The Future Leader – which is effectively a workbook families can read together and use as an instruction guide to work through the tough stuff. We discuss how much of the strife families experience is simply because they do not yet have the language to communicate their needs in a clear and effective way.

Patti shares key information about how assumptions, accountability, and avoidance play a big role in the success of the successor and what you can do to assure it. Our conversation is geared towards folks in agriculture, but Patti has made it a priority to make sure anyone reading her book, no matter their background or gender, is able to benefit from the wisdom within.

“That’s why I had to write a book. This is not an article. This is not one podcast. This is not a keynote. It is such a broad topic. The book is a mile wide and an inch deep. I intentionally want to whet people’s appetites, specifically successor’s appetites, to say there’s a lot of learning to do here. [Let’s] get going.” -Patti Durand

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