Family Business Advisors Who Work Inside
Your Leadership Team

A family business advisor helps owners navigate the challenges unique to family-run companies—succession planning, governance structures, leadership alignment, and the emotional dynamics that come with mixing family and business. At Performance 7, we go further: we implement inside your business rather than advise from the outside. Our Higher Playing Field™ framework gives family businesses a structured path through complexity.

A business implementation firm based in Sydney, led by Anna Samios—the first female Certified Scaling Up Coach in Oceania, with seven years running Australia’s Scaling Up conference. The team works with established family businesses navigating the complexity that comes after growth. We don’t consult from the sidelines. We work inside your leadership team.

Privately held family businesses turning over $10M–$250M with 25–250 employees. Typically second or third generation, often in construction, trade services, hospitality, or professional services. The common thread: the business has outgrown the systems and structures that built it, and the family needs a partner who can implement change—not just recommend it.

Most family business consultants advise. We implement. P7 embeds with your leadership team—running planning sessions, facilitating quarterly rhythms, holding every executive accountable. We call it the Full Bench™ Approach: senior specialists across strategy, operations, finance, people, and governance, all working on your family business together. A firm, not a solo operator.

Higher Playing Field™ covers the seven areas where family businesses stall after growth: strategy, execution, people, cash, governance, succession, and operations. It includes proprietary planning tools, quarterly rhythm structures, leadership alignment workshops, and published resources like Kickass Cashflow. Every tool has been match-hardened across 200+ implementations inside Australian private businesses. Your leadership team works from a single, integrated system built to scale with the business.

No. Many family business clients come to us through Scaling Up, and it remains core to our methodology. But Higher Playing Field™ goes well beyond it. We work with family businesses that have never heard of Scaling Up, businesses that tried it alone, and businesses that used another coach. The entry point doesn’t matter—where you want to take the business does.

It starts with a focused session with the founders to understand where the family business is and where you want it to go. Then we bring in your leadership team for a two-day workshop that builds your strategic plan and sets 90-day priorities. Then we stay—quarterly planning, weekly rhythms, ongoing implementation. Most family business coaching engagements start with our First 100 Days program and evolve into Private Implementation.

Of course, as a family business, we understand it can be difficult to get buy-in from all family members. If family members want to get involved later on, that’s fine as well.

Yes! We love involving the leadership team to help bring the family’s vision to life within the business.

Every family is unique with distinct opportunities and challenges. Here are some examples of families we’re currently working with:

A fourth-generation hospitality group preparing for succession and a blood-line CEO transition.

A third-generation distributor supporting its first non-family CEO by developing and executing a strategic plan with the family, CEO and leadership team.

A second-generation property developer managing rapid growth and ensuring the team remain aligned and accountable.

A second-generation manufacturer and franchisor preparing to retire and hand over the business to the next generation.