Dean R. Fowler, Ph.D.
Dean R. Fowler, Ph.D. is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts specializing in the emotional dynamics that impact family members, managers, and shareholders in family enterprises. The international association, The Family Firm Institute, recently honored him by selecting him to receive the prestigious “Award for Interdisciplinary Achievement”. His book – Love, Power and Money – has won world-wide acclaim in reviews in the major publications dealing with family enterprises as one of the best books on integrated family enterprise planning. In 2008, he was appointed to serve with a select group of business leaders on the Coleman Chair Advisory Council at Marquette University's College of Business Administration.
During the past twenty-five years, Dean Fowler has served over 250 family enterprise clients in both the United States and Europe. His firm, Dean Fowler Associates, provides integrated services working closely with the other professional advisors trusted by the family client.
Having worked in several family businesses and on the boards of several family companies, I am acutely aware of the potential for heartbreak. A rare few worked. The opposite is the general case. After a family/business conflict, it is not uncommon for family members to never talk again for the rest of their lives. Some family business consultants, like Dean Fowler, have found better ways. John Torinus CEO, Serigraphics, Inc.
Through his book and his leadership of our family council, Dean Fowler has given me the inspiration and the language I need to talk with my father about succession planning, his philosophy on business and family, and his personal expectations of his six children, and particularly, of me. Vesla Bemis, Bemis Manufacturing Company