What If Your Family's Toughest Conversation Became Its Greatest Strength?

Confident succession starts with a truth: You can lead this change!

Every family business faces transitions where:

Roles feel unclear → Next-gen leaders lose direction
Talks get postponed → Quiet tension builds
Sacrifices go unseen → Passion dims
Legacy feels shaky → Anxiety grows

These aren’t failures. They’re opportunities to:

✅ Clarify with proven frameworks
✅ Transform talks into trust-builders
✅ Honor contributions fairly
✅ Secure legacies intentionally

With The Future Leader: The Successor's Guide to Family Business Leadership, you won’t just solve problems—you’ll build a business that thrives because of family bonds.

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Your Roadmap for Fearless Family Business Leadership

Stop Guessing - Start Leading

Patti Durand's book, The Future Leader: The Successor's Guide to Family Business Leadership, gives you the scripts, tools, and confidence to navigate tough conversations—before they become crises.

Family businesses thrive on trust but often lack the language to build it.

The Future Leader delivers actionable frameworks to:

✅ Lead without authority

✅ Ask for clarity without conflict

✅ Secure your legacy with confidence

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Patti Durand - Speaker & Author of

The Future Leader: The Guide to Family Business Leadership

Start the Conversation - With Care

This book has become a lifeline for families in transition. Gift a copy today, or order multiple for your team, clients, or employees.

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Patti Durand: Your Guide Through Generational Transitions

Author, speaker, and relentless advocate for replacing family business tension with trust.

Patti Durand has guided hundreds of family businesses through their most critical transitions. As a 28 - year strategist, speaker, and author of The Future Leader: The Successor's Guide to Family Business Leadership, she exposes the unspoken assumptions that sabotage generational handoffs—and gives you the language to fix them.

Her approach isn’t theory: it’s battle-tested frameworks for:

Leading tough conversations (without collateral damage)
Clarifying roles, compensation, and ownership paths
Empowering successors before they inherit chaos

‘Your business shouldn’t thrive despite family dynamics—it should thrive because of them.’

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You’re Capable of This Too!

In Their Own Words: Hope Made Visible

Dick Wittman

Wittman Consulting

Many faced with succession don't even know what questions to ask, or what homework they should do to maximize their preparedness. This book is a great first homework assignment. Patti combines her solid professional experiences with her deep passion to help others move forward.

Maggie Van Camp

Loft32 Founder

Passionate Advocate for Succession Planning

The Future Leader offers a fresh perspective that provides clear actions, engaging storytelling, and a call to action for the future.

Mike Bossy

Bossy Nagy Group CPAs

Director of Marketing & Chief of Exponential Opportunities

This book should be in everyone's library who is involved in the family business transition space. I have read it twice and have adapted some of my thinking to incorporate some of Patti's great thinking.