Resources

Pat O’Connor discusses how understanding your beliefs about conflict will help you address conflict more directly, with positive benefits...

Click here to learn more about “The Lemonade Stand” by Ara Bagdasarian and Nick Gustavsson

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...

Read the article Getting Started with Family Governance here.

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

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

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 in my early twenties, I was attending university and still living at home. One day, my mother and I got into a screaming match...

OVERVIEW A third-generation daughter engaged Blackwood to help increase alignment between she and her non-active sibling shareholders...

OVERVIEW Blackwood was engaged by the members of a second-generation enterprising family with G2 in-laws presiding over respective...

A year ago I wrote about the challenges of raising “financially fit kids” and suggested a book written by Lee Hausner as a great...

OVERVIEW An enterprising family was referred to Blackwood through the advice of their commercial banker. The matriarch and patriarch of...

14 years ago when I was faced with a critical decision on making a major career change, I was looking for a tool to help me get clarity...

My name is Caitilin O’Connor and I am the newest employee of Blackwood Family Enterprise Services; I’m also the daughter of Patrick...