Strategies works in partnership exclusively with closely-held and family businesses. Since 1976, more than a thousand companies in many sectors, and more than one hundred families of wealth, have entrusted us with guiding business growth, navigating succession, preserving and protecting family wealth, and safeguarding relationships for the future.

Privately-held businesses face many critical, unique transitions over time and are wise to reassess the scope and quality of advice of their business advisors. Strategies recognizes that no single advisor has the breadth and depth to meet all the demands of successfully shepherding a company through these changes.

In a dynamically diverse team approach, Strategies consultants offer an array of professional disciplines paired with repertoires and wisdom of practical experience. Our services are both strategic and tactical, supporting the business owner, executives, management teams, and family members through the lifecycles of inevitable change. Companies invite us in to counsel and lead at any number of crucial stages in the life of their enterprise, to steer through conflicts over stock, money, position, role, succession, personality, relationships, and to facilitate healthy decisions about strategic direction.

Our collective working knowledge encompasses every aspect of the successful enterprise: operations, marketing, business development, training, education, and human resources. Our consultants have actually run organizations, managed people, trained staff, chaired boards, implemented projects, met payrolls, and built businesses.

Strategies’ founder Huell E. (Skip) Connor, Jr., M.D. is a widely recognized expert in managing change and repositioning businesses. Dr. Connor blends a medical model approach of identifying complex symptoms of dysfunction within companies with management theory and hands-on business experience. A psychiatrist with more than 30 years’ experience in the private practice of clinical psychiatry specializing in problems of the chief executive officer and business owner, his analytical and diagnostic skills and business savvy make him a powerful change agent.

At Strategies, we consider our role to be an exquisite stewardship, supporting you through the process of developing your vision, realizing your goals, to controlling your future.