Leslie Dashew,

Leslie Dashew, has combined her background in organizational development and family therapy to specialize in consultation to family businesses and families of wealth as well as other organizations, private and public. She has been recognized as a leader in the field of family business consulting by being named a Fellow of the Family Firm Institute. She is a mentor to many other professionals in the field. She has been in practice for over 35 years and is located in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Leslie helps individuals and organizations to chart the course of their future. Her work with family businesses includes prevention of serious problems by helping clients establish the policies, practices and skills of healthy family organizations. She also works with families who are in severe conflict to help them untangle the knots between family and business issues.

Leslie's clients come from large and small businesses throughout the U.S. and abroad, in many different industries. Her expertise lies in helping these clients create harmony in the family and prosperity in the business. Leslie also works with families of wealth to help identify a shared vision and strategies to help families optimize the impact of wealth on the family and its interests.

Leslie’s work includes:

• Assessment of the family and business

• Consultation in the development of a shared vision for
  the future of the family and its assets

• Creation of practical plans to achieve the vision

• Development of skills, knowledge and perspectives to
  enable all constituents to achieve their vision

• Assistance in the development of family meetings, family
  councils, boards of directors, foundations and other structures

• Resolution of difficult conflicts

• On-going support and advise to assure continued success
  in the family and business

Leslie has written three books. She is a co-author of Working With Family Businesses, A Guide For Professionals, published by Jossey-Bass. Leslie's second book, The Best of The Human Side was published in October of 1997 and is now out of print. Her third book, Health, Wealth and Families: How to Assure Your Wealth Helps, Not Hurts, Your Family was published in January of 2003. Leslie is on the Editorial Board of Family Business Magazine and is often quoted, and her writing on family business issues can be found in popular business and trade magazines including Family Business, INC, Black Enterprise, Entrepreneur, USA Today, and many others. She was recently featured in interviews in the Nepali publication, The Organization, Stratos Magazine and in Professional Builder magazine.

Leslie speaks widely at academic, professional and trade associations. She presents workshops and seminars for companies across the U.S. and in other countries. She is renowned for her interactive programs on family business issues, management and leadership, team building, change and stress management and individual and interpersonal effectiveness.

Leslie also conducts training for professional and trade associations such as YPO (Young Presidents Organization), the American Institute of CPAs, the Society of the Plastics Industry, The American Hotel and Motel Association, The American Society for Training and Development, The Family Firm Institute, Attorneys for Family Held Enterprises (AFHE) as well as Family Business Educational Forums, Universities, Chambers of Commerce and the Small Business Development Centers.

As a family therapist as well as an organizational development consultant, Leslie's insights are also shared individually and in workshops on managing "problem" employees, chemical dependency, communication skills, stress and change management and overcoming barriers to professional effectiveness.

Leslie has served in many volunteer and professional organizations on boards and committees including The Board of Trustees of Pitzer College, The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts (where she was recently the Chair), The Scottsdale Cultural Council, Women Business Owners, Inc., Commercial Real Estate Women, The Council For Children, The Family Firm Institute, The Georgia Coalition on Consultation, Education and Prevention, the Mental Health Association, The Governors Council on Child and Adolescent Mental Health, etc. She was named One of The Ten Outstanding Young People of Atlanta and recently was elected to the International Women's Forum.

Leslie's undergraduate degree in psychology is from Pitzer College (1970), her graduate degree in psychiatric social work from the University of Michigan. She served on the Emory University Medical School Faculty in Psychiatry for 6 years. Her greatest education has come from her daughter, Baleigh who is 27 years old.
 

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