The Solutionist Guide To Family Business: Strategies & Structures For Peace & Prosperity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781452855523)

Jon Kenfield Personal background I was educated in England and obtained an honours degree in Law in 1975. After graduating I travelled overseas and worked as a scuba diving instructor and safari guide in the Red Sea (Sinai); as an adventure travel program developer / promoter, photo-journalist and public speaker (UK); and as an underwater photographer on the oil rigs of the North and Java Seas (Scotland, Norway and Indonesia). I returned to England, qualified as a chartered accountant in 1982, and then worked for Deloitte in Zambia and Zimbabwe for two and a half years. I migrated from Zambia to Australia in 1985 and settled in Perth, where I established Australia's first major forensic accounting practice, for Deloitte. I transferred to Melbourne in 1992 to develop a national forensic accounting practice, got recruited by Ernst & Young the following year and left soon after to establish my Dispute Solutions in 1994. My primary professional passions: mediation, facilitation and problem solving, led me down the family business path to become one of Australia's most experienced and effective family business mediators and advisers. In 2004 I re-invented myself as a Solutionist to reflect how I worked with family businesses, developed and refined "Solutionism" into a philosophy and a methodology, and re-birthed my business as "The Solutionist Group".