Dr. Thomas Deans | Author

Dr. Tom Deans is the author of three books on the subject of family wealth transfers. His first book, Every Family’s Business: 12 Common Sense Questions to Protect Your Wealth, remains the best- selling family business book of all-time -- selected by The New York Times as one of the Top-Ten Books Business Owners Should Read. The book has sold more than 1.5 million copies in more than 100 countries.

His second book, Willing Wisdom: Seven Questions Successful Families Ask, is also an international best-seller and has received critical acclaim for its controversial explanation why 137 million American adults do not have a legal will.

Dr. Deans newly released book, The Happy Inheritor: How Successful Families Prepare Heirs and Transfer Wealth, describes how facilitated family meetings can be the centre-piece of successful family wealth transitions.

Having delivered more than 2000 speeches in 28 countries, he is regarded as the preeminent thought-leader on the subject of inter-generational wealth transfers.

With his family selling businesses for more than $100 million, prepare to unlearn everything you thought you knew about transitioning family wealth.