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Family Governance Design

A family that can decide together can hold anything together.

A young family in matching cream poses together in a mirror portrait

The promise, in one line

"Our constitution has survived three weddings and one feud."

The story

Every family is a boardroom

Money rarely breaks families. Undecided questions do: who votes, who spends, who speaks for the estate, what happens when two branches disagree.

Family governance design answers those questions while everyone still likes each other — a constitution, a council, and rituals of decision that turn wealth from a pressure into a practice.

What it protects

Promises, kept in writing

A written constitution

Roles, rights and rules the whole family helped draft — and signed.

Decisions with a process

Councils and votes replace ambushes at funerals.

Conflict, choreographed

Disagreement gets a forum, a mediator and a deadline.

New members, onboarded

In-laws and heirs join a system, not a mystery.

Who This Is For

  • Families with enough wealth to disagree over it — and enough sense to want a process instead
  • Multi-branch families where decisions currently require everyone in the same room
  • Business-owning families where commercial and family decisions have never been separated
  • Any family that has watched an undecided question become a feud

How We Design It

  1. 01 Draft a family constitution together — roles, rights and decision-making rules
  2. 02 Establish a family council with a regular meeting rhythm and a clear mandate
  3. 03 Build a conflict process: a forum, a mediator, a deadline and a record
  4. 04 Onboard new members — spouses, heirs — into the system, not the mystery

Protectors on Family Governance Design

Families who made the promise

The constitution meeting was awkward. Every meeting since has not been.

The Mwangi Council · Nairobi · Protectors since 2023

We disagree as loudly as ever — inside a process that ends with a decision.

Njeri W. · Naivasha · Protector since 2024

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