Resources

On behalf of the entire Blackwood team, we want to thank all our clients and colleagues for a successful 2024. It was a year filled with...

Author David Blom The impact of selling a family business goes far beyond the fiscal implications. There are profound impacts on family...

Blackwood presenting in the ABFI Terry Hay Leadership Series.

What is a family office?

Lisa's Cefali's 12 week journey to the boxing ring, and believing in the family advisory process.

Introducing Blackwood's faculty advisors.

Learn about how Blackwood contributes to Family Enterprise Canada

Blackwood Family Enterprise Services, a family enterprise advisory services leader, is proud to announce the addition of three Senior...

In a family enterprise, even when mothers are not directly involved in the operation of the business, their leadership is powerful. Much...

After a frustrating workday, I came home and described to my partner an encounter I had. “It’s like he’s saying ‘yadda, yadda’ and I’m...

There are countless horror stories out there from families who experienced the death of a loved one only to have that pain compounded by...

The “Green Box” is really a metaphor for a designated place to keep all your important planning documents so that people then know where...

Full disclosure, I have never seen Field of Dreams, but I know the signature line “build it and they will come”. I’ve been thinking about...

At Blackwood, we utilize a tool called a genogram to help us understand the relationships and connections in each client family....

Imagine you had to fill an empty jar with rocks, gravel, and sand. There are many ways you could approach this with varying levels of...

Gratitude has many positive effects that last far beyond the moment when you say, ‘thank you.’ According to research done by Harvard...

Co-authored with Caitilin O'Connor The O’Connor family has always loved a good board game. During the pandemic, we find ourselves dusting...

Last year, Caroline Criado Perez released her debut non-fiction book, Invisible Women (2019), in which she revealed gender bias data and...

There’s a funny joke that says 90% of being married is just shouting, ‘What?!’ from other rooms. While that’s funny, and perhaps slightly...

When I was a kid, my siblings and I would play Monopoly for hours barely knowing the rules. We had some vague understanding of the game,...