Paul W Smith B.Ec (Sydney) FAIM MAICD - CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Paul founded the Carnegie Management Group in 1999, where his and the Team's core focus is Transition Management through Mentoring - undertaking significant assignments in the following areas:

• Organisation and Leadership Development for Business Owners & Executives
• Family Business & SME Strategy Development & Implementation
• The Human issues of conflict resolution, relationship building and communication skills enhancement - both for the person, family and people in business
• Strategic Business Enterprise Planning, Re-Engineering & Change Management
• Executive Mentoring, Career Planning, Management & Transition

His Professional Affiliations include:

• Fellow - Australian Institute of Management
• Member - Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)
• Member National Executive Mentor Panel - AICD - 2007-2009
• Accredited Family Business Adviser - Family Business Australia
• Member - Family Firm Institute (FFI) - USA

Positions held include:

• 4 non-executive Board positions - primary role as Adviser/Mentor to Board
• Committee Member - Family Business Australia Adviser Group
• Non-Family Council Member with 5 significant Family Businesses Publications and Engagements:
• Published numerous articles in Business Magazines, Generations Magazine (FBA) and national press
• Regularly conducts Workshops on the Family Business Dynamic and Transition Management throughout Capital cities & major Regional centres
• Regularly approached by national media to comment on topical issues - e.g. Executive Mentoring

Paul's engaging with Family Business

As an accredited Family Business Adviser he acts as a mentor, guide and facilitator in a professional friendship - a trusted adviser. He assists families who own a family business or who share family investments to manage the personal and organisational issues that lead to successful and fulfilling transfer of businesses, wealth, values, commitments and legacies between generations.

He works at the intersection of family relationships, business, financial and philanthropic enterprises and personal development. His goal is to assist families develop:

• Positive and supportive relationships
• Clear agreements and understandings about the future
• Effective and profitable businesses and enterprises
• Clarity of roles and relationships in management and governance
• New leadership and the passing of responsibility, ownership and capability
• Individual development of responsibility, competence and fulfillment

He believes these are largely human, not financial or legal challenges. They are best addressed by creating clear agreements, effective structures and clear communication and collaboration within a family, and with its employees and other stakeholders.

His professional consulting takes place in the four key dimensions of family business and wealth management success.

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