Alejandro Cárdenas Villa
Protecting wealth by decoding family business dynamics.
The greatest risk to family wealth isn’t money, it’s the inability to navigate conflict, absence of objectivity, misaligned priorities, lack of individual autonomy and an inadequate succession plan.
Services
The right strategy removes uncertainty, prevents crises, and safeguards both family harmony and business longevity.
Independent Board Member
______ Provide objective, strategic guidance to ensure sound decision-making, avoiding conflict, protecting the business, and generating long-term shareholder value.
Family Business Workshops
______ Equip families with the tools and skills to handle succession, governance, and emotional entanglements, ensuring both harmony and business resilience.
Conflict Resolution
______ Discover the real issues behind family disputes to prevent damage to relationships and businesses.
Speaker
______ Deliver thought-provoking talks that challenge conventional wisdom on family businesses, wealth, and the unseen forces shaping their success or failure.
Personalized Estate Planning
______ Provide an estate plan that goes beyond taxes and structures by integrating invisible human dynamics.
Setting Up and Managing a Family Office
______ Help families set up and structure their family office by combining value maximization and relationship preservation.
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Bio
I am not a lawyer, a psychologist, or a banker, but I aim to combine the best of all three disciplines into one. I work with family-owned businesses both as an outsider – advisor, mediator and coach – and as an insider – manager, board member, protector and distribution counsellor. My assistance isn’t simply about taxes, finance and legal frameworks, it’s also about understanding people’s psychology and the invisible forces—loyalty, guilt, rivalry, fear—that shape their decisions.
While others tend to focus on best practices, my priority is helping families to avoid the worst ones. In family-owned businesses, survival comes first. Avoid failure, and success follows.
I’ve been next to families during business transactions, leadership successions, corporate restructurings and family confrontations. In this privileged position, the insight has been clear: the biggest risks are rarely financial or legal; they’re human.
The biggest risks to family wealth and harmony aren’t the obvious ones, but the unspoken ones.
This newsletter explores the hidden dynamics behind business failure, inheritance conflicts, and governance breakdowns before they become a problem.