Rob is a regular speaker, commentator and practitioner in family strategy development particularly for family farm businesses.
Rob is one of a small number of advisers who has expertise and experience in both the people and strategy dimensions and who works exclusively in assisting families manage business and wealth communication and plans. Rob and his team assist families prevent or address the fall out of poor communication and plans so as to achieve family wealth priorities and protect family relationships. This work requires integrating two key areas of expertise and experience:
1) Family communication including facilitation, goal setting, family dynamics and often conflict resolution, and
2) Integrated strategy development likely to include entrepreneurship, business financial performance and risk management, legal structures, agreements and tools, state and federal taxes, government programs, estate planning and financial planning.
Rob also has considerable expertise across most broad acre and some horticultural enterprise due to his client base, ten years as facilitator in the Farm Management 500 program and client briefs for farm profitability assessment across local, regional and SE Australia. FM500 was a pioneer and leader in group learning and extension and comparative assessment of farm businesses.
Rob has co-authored books and videos on farm succession and has a 25 year history of workshops and speaking engagements including: NSW Royal Show Society, ABC Radio, Centrelink, Federal and NSW Rural Counselling Service, AusIndustry, Centacare, Family Business Australia, Victorian Department of Agriculture programs, NSW Irrigators Young Farmers Program, Australian Financial Planning Association, Landcare, a range of corporate and regional development organisations, Massey University NZ International Succession Summit and Dairy Australia events and training.
