Most families successfully transfer wealth. Very few successfully transfer wisdom, purpose, leadership, and relationships. The Family Legacy Engine helps families build all of them—creating a legacy that grows stronger with every generation instead of disappearing after three.
Most families successfully transfer wealth. Very few successfully transfer wisdom, purpose, leadership, and relationships. The Family Legacy Engine helps families build all of them—creating a legacy that grows stronger with every generation instead of disappearing after three.
The Challenge
“Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.”
Nearly every culture has its own version of this proverb because the challenge is universal. Businesses can be built. Wealth can be created. But without intentional systems, family unity, purpose, and leadership often fade over time. Research consistently shows that most family enterprises fail to survive beyond the third generation.
The good news?
It doesn’t have to happen.
There is Another Way
Healthy families don’t happen by accident. Great family enterprises are built intentionally. The strongest families share common characteristics:
- A compelling shared purpose
- Deep trust and authentic relationships
- Leadership developed across generations
- Wise stewardship of wealth
- Thoughtful legal structures that protect the future
Together these elements become the Family Legacy Engine—a practical framework that helps families preserve what matters most while preparing future generations to lead.
Why Families Choose Scott
Why Families Choose Scott
Why Families Choose Scott
Scott has spent his entire life inside great family business, seeing them rise and fall and learning why. He grew up watching his own family business rise and fall. And at the same time, he saw his childhood friends’ family businesses rise and keep rising, including the Cathy family of Chick-fil-A and many others who are less famous but still very successful. He has been behind the scenes and in the room to see how it’s actually done with hundreds of high net worth families. And his passion is to bring the best practices of the great families to rest of us.
His mission is simple:
Help families build great businesses and great families.
The Five Components
