Family Business Is Better offers exactly the same contents and benefits in Spanish. Just click here: Las Empresas Familiares Son Mejores.
Learn from the best.
Live happily ever after.
And make a fortune doing it.
If you work with your family, or you own businesses or assets together, and you feel like there’s too much conflict and stress, or you worry about the possibility of problems at work damaging the family relationships, you’re in the right place. We will show you how to solve whatever problems you have and how to prevent almost everything that could go wrong in the future.
There are three reasons why you keep hearing about families who fight, who are miserable, and who end up destroying the business or divorcing each other… or both:
You only hear about the failures. Very few families fight, but those are the ones who end up in the news or in gossip. You don’t hear about the many, many families who quietly live their happy, successful lives without making any noise.
The entire field of family enterprise is relatively new. Most families have never heard of the fundamentals and best practices in what we call “family systems governance”, they just reinvent the wheel as best they can without any help. Obviously, you make more mistakes and have more pain if you have to reinvent everything along the way.
Many professionals find it easier to be commercially successful by preying on people’s insecurities and fears. Their advertisements and articles paint an exaggerated and horrible (and inaccurate) picture of family businesses. It’s unethical, but it’s also very common.
But most problems/failures are preventable, and nearly ALL can be solved. Every business family — yes, every single one! — should enjoy happiness, loving relationships, great kids, and successful businesses that generate wealth.
Family business really is better… if you do it right.
Family Business Is Better will teach you all about working with those you love — from personal growth to parenting to family dynamics to corporate governance to responsible ownership to wealth management — in a conversational, easy-to-read style.
Every piece of content here is original and personally written by an award-winning consulting team with global recognition. You can be sure that the content is solid, trustworthy, and based on the best available knowledge in the field today.
When we show you the work of others, we will always cite and do our best to link to the original source. And none of this content has been generated or edited in any way with artificial intelligence software tools.
Why should you subscribe?
Family business is a complex and multidisciplinary field, with hundreds of different topics to discuss in family, business, and ownership. You should subscribe because, over months and years, we’ll cover all of these topics: from the basics and best practices to the secrets and tips that will lead you to mastery, and across fields like business, finance, law, and psychology.
At every step along the way, our goal will be to give you a tremendous amount of real value to help you change your life for the better.
What do you get for free?
Successful families routinely invest tens of thousands of dollars annually (for decades) to get individualized advice and guidance for their particular circumstances. Family Business Is Better will get you as close as we can to a full education on the subject, for free. No strings attached, no catch.
When you invest your time and energy into reading our free content, you’ll receive frequent articles, resources, and how-to guides. All will be truly useful and complete articles, because we know that not everyone can afford to pay for advice yet and our goal is to help you reach a new level of success and happiness.
What do you get with a paid subscription?
A free subscription is access to an education. A paid subscription is an investment in yourself through additional access, content, and community of people like you, so that you and your family can make much more progress, faster.
As a paid subscriber, you’ll receive everything in the free subscription plus:
additional analysis or explanation for many of our free articles to make them more valuable
exclusive access to the paid subscriber community: comment on posts, ask questions, and participate so you can get even more value for yourself
in-depth, exclusive articles on some of the most critical lessons we teach our consulting clients (call this “text consulting” if you like)
real-life case studies (with names/details changed, of course!) to illustrate the challenges and opportunities most families face, and how to address them
additional exercises, webinars, videos, and tutorials (included in your subscription whenever possible, and at a special price when they have an additional cost)
and a monthly Q&A session.
What do you get with a Platinum subscription?
You get everything in the free and paid tiers above, plus additional exclusive content, benefits, and events.
Because Platinum will be a much smaller group, we’ll be able to provide referrals, some personalized individual attention, private live sessions, and other exclusive experiences. We’ll also do our best to connect you with other members of our community, and recommend other service/solution providers if you request it.
If the free and paid tiers sounded great, rest assured we’ll make the Platinum tier an even more incredible value. We will do our best to make this by far the best deal for you, with the greatest return on investment. I promise you will not regret it.
Why should you trust us?
I’m Rodolfo Paiz, and my purpose in life is what Family Business Is Better is all about: to help successful families live happily ever after while building wealth and a sustainable legacy. Here’s why you can trust me and the team at Fidelius:
I’ve lived it and continue to live it: I’m a third-generation member of a successful business family from Guatemala, who among other things built a chain of supermarkets that spanned Central America and was eventually sold to Wal-Mart. My family was one of the very first to hire a family-business consultant, who in turn was one of the pioneers in this field.
I’ve been involved with good governance for 40+ years, and I continue to invest in operating businesses, real-estate, and financial assets with my family. I’ve been part of the leadership team in almost $300M of real-estate development projects, and I serve on several Boards as an Independent Director.
I’ve studied it and teach it: I focused my MBA studies on family business. I’ve read the books, the magazines, the academic journals. I’ve spoken at roughly 50 international conferences, and I’ve been selected several times to present at the FFI Global Conference, an annual gathering of the world’s most committed practitioners and academics in family enterprise. I helped to found the Family Firm Institute’s global educational GEN certificate program, and I’m now a faculty member on the program teaching other consultants.
I’m a recognized expert in the field: I received the 2022 International Award from FFI for career contributions to the field of international family business, one of only 22 people in the world to receive it so far. My article on Iceberg Analysis was the most-downloaded article of the year in The Practitioner, itself the most widely-read publication among professionals and academics in the field. I’m a former Global Board Member at FFI, a former member of the Editorial Committee for The Practitioner, and one of the world’s leading voices on family offices.
I’ve built an amazing team: At Fidelius, we’ve helped over 150 families in 30+ countries over the last 25 years. We provide consulting, family-office services, and private capital/wealth guidance to some of the most complex and interesting multi-generational families in the Americas. But at the very core of our soul, we are your guide, your counselor, and a true fiduciary (which means always acting in the best interest of our clients, even above our own).
We want the best for you: We don’t sell fear, and we aren’t doing this just to make a buck. We’re here because 75% to 80% of the world’s businesses are family-owned and family-operated, and very few of them were ever taught what my family was taught. We’re here to pay it forward for millions of other families.
If you want a better life, a happier family, healthier kids, and a more successful business, we’ll help you achieve all of that. And you can!
Do you have any questions?
Please feel free to message me directly. I don’t always respond quickly, but I will read and respond to every message myself.
Will we ever sell/share your data?
No. Never. We will only use your email address, and any other data you share with us, to serve you. We will never share, sell, or otherwise monetize your data. Our free content is simply a way to serve our global community, funded by our paid subscriptions and consulting clients.
Is this just a marketing tool for Fidelius?
No. There are tens of millions of business families around the world who have never heard of what we teach, and we can make a huge difference in their lives. Online media (text, audio, video) is the only way to reach all of them, so here we are!
Quite literally, educating families like yours is how we make the world a better place.
Family Business Is Better is a true effort to provide solid, trustworthy, useful education on family/business topics for free, and then to provide even more value if you choose to pay for it.
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