Who Will Drive the Bus?: Guidance for Developing Leaders in the Family Enterprise
Gerard Donnellan, PhD is president and founder of Big Leap (www.big-leap.com), a consulting company that utilizes innovative approaches for developing leaders in family and closely-held businesses. As an organizational consulting psychologist and family business consultant, he works with families and their businesses as they navigate their way through the ups and downs of owning and running their businesses, all while hoping they all will still want to be together for Thanksgiving dinner. Trained as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, he has over thirty-five years of professional experience. He is adjunct professor at the International Business School of Brandeis University and has held university faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School and the City University of New York. He was founding director of the Institute for Organizational Consulting Psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP), Boston.  He was awarded the Certificate in Family Business Advising by the Family Firm Institute (FFI). He is on the faculty of the FFI certificate program and is a frequent presenter at FFI conferences.