Biography

Steve is a principal of The Family Business Consulting Group.  He specializes in making family owned a competitive advantage.   In doing so, he assists with family communications and decision making, succession planning and implementation, and governance & management in family firms.  His work often involves family and non-family employee teamwork, implementing advisory boards or boards of directors, family councils, successor development and management practices, such as compensation and strategic planning, tailored to family firms.  His clients are primarily in North America and include financial services, manufacturing, philanthropic, distribution, construction, retail, agricultural, textile services and professional services (i.e., family offices and trust companies); all operated or owned by families. 

Dr. McClure earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Purdue University.  He has taught business continuity planning and family business management and governance to retail networks of international manufacturers, clients of law practices, international trade groups, business advisors, and to the members and owners of family businesses, both domestically and internationally.  He is an innovator in providing unique services to private businesses and his articles on consulting methods appear in three volumes of collected works.  He is co-author of books on family business succession, family councils, compensation and working in a family business.  He is an active member of the Family Firm Institute, serves as a mentor to consultants entering the field, and has won the prestigious Beckhard award for outstanding contributions to the field of family firm consulting.  He is regularly quoted in media and a frequent speaker on family business topics.

Dr. McClure may be reached at mcclure@efamilybusiness.com

• Family Council, Board and Management - How they work together.
• Family Business Compensation & Rewards.
• Strategic Planning in a Family Business.
• Building Teamwork among Successor Owners.
• Managing in a Family Business.
• Preparing for Ownership.
• Succession Planning.
• The Non-family Manager's Guide to Success in a Family Firm.

Background

• Principal of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc.
• Specializes in family/non-family management teamwork, governance, successor development and team development, management succession, strategic planning, and management processes tailored to family firms.
• Recipient of the Family Firm Institute's Beckhard Award for Outstanding Contributions to Family Business Practice and National University Continuing Education Association's Creativity Award for the program: Managing in a Family Business.