EMPOWERING FAMILIES AND FAMILY BUSINESSES
Located near Vancouver, BC. Operating wherever you need.
We work closely with family members to address both the business and personal dynamics at play. By prioritizing open communication and mutual understanding, we help facilitate agreements and establish sustainable governance practices. Our empathetic approach to the emotional and professional aspects of family businesses ensures that clients feel supported and empowered throughout the advisory process.
Working with Glover & Associates
Families often face a range of stress points. Below are just a few of the ways Sharon can help navigate these challenges and keep things on track:
Interim Leadership
When a family office executive departs suddenly, it can leave a significant gap — especially without a clear successor. With eight years of experience leading an outsourced family office, Sharon brings the confidence and expertise needed to support families through transitional periods. She offers the time and space to carefully consider next steps while also assisting in identifying the right long-term fit. Sharon can serve as an informal coach and resource for your new hire, ensuring a supported and effective handoff.
Developing Learning Opportunities
Families often hold different expectations about the knowledge and experience required to participate in the family enterprise. Above all, it’s essential that each family member feels they are adding value. Some families may expect baseline competencies in certain areas, while others prefer a structured program for all members.
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Because people learn differently and bring varied experience to the table, a one-size-fits-all approach can be limiting — especially for families striving to be inclusive. Sharon helps navigate these complexities by offering customized learning options aligned with your family's values and goals.
Establishing structure and processes for the family office
As family offices grow in size and complexity, the need for formalized processes becomes critical. Families must feel confident that their private information and assets are protected — and that their family office is evolving to meet new demands.
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Sharon can assess your office’s current operations and advise on improvements that reflect the growing scope of its responsibilities. Her guidance ensures your office remains secure, efficient, and well-equipped for the future.
Talent Acquisition
Sharon collaborates with external executive recruiters to help source top-tier talent for family offices. One of North America’s leading recruiters describes the ideal family office leader as an “expert generalist” — someone who can lead across a wide range of needs.
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Just as important as skill is fit. Sharon understands the importance of finding individuals who align with your family’s values and can work through sensitive dynamics with professionalism, trust, and empathy.
Building Efficiencies in Foundations
Private family foundations can be a powerful way to involve a wide range of family members in the enterprise. Sharon can assess your foundation’s structure, review its granting processes, and speak with grantees to understand their experience. These insights help improve efficiency and deepen your foundation’s role as a valued partner to the charities it supports.
Developing Family Governance
Strong governance isn’t just for business — it’s equally vital in family systems. When challenges arise, a family council or committee can offer a neutral space where a representative group of family members works together to recommend a way forward.
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Sharon supports families in designing and implementing governance structures that promote open dialogue, inclusive participation, and broad consensus across generations and branches.
Words From Those Who Have Worked With Sharon
Colleagues and family members express their views about Sharon's professionalism, dedication, and discretion.
Partner, Fasken
I worked with Sharon and the family she worked with for about six years. She engaged us to advise on a major governance initiative and other advice for family members. She is smart, professional, and someone who always kept the needs of the family foremost. She is someone who was a solid partner to work with.
Family Member
I worked with Sharon for almost eight years and found her advice to be thoughtful and to the point. She worked hard and was able to move our family forward both on the business governance side, the education side, and with our family foundation. Sharon was a valued and trusted advisor to our family.
Managing Directors, Canterbury Consulting
We worked with Sharon advising the investment committee she worked with for a private family foundation. She was highly attuned to the needs of both the team of sophisticated investors she worked with but also of those family members who needed to understand foundation investments but were not as comfortable discussing them.
Partner, Watson Advisors
Our firm worked with Sharon on governance issues and recruiting for key positions for families for at least ten years. She has a clear understanding of family governance and was a solid partner to us in relation to the external governance support and recruitment projects we worked on together. Sharon is easily able to bridge a family's needs with practical support that moves them forward.
Partner of a major International Accounting Firm
Our office worked with Sharon for about seven years and helped create a tax-efficient governance structure for the family Sharon was working with. We advised on a number of issues over the years and viewed Sharon as a trusted partner.
Board Chair
Sharon is a strategic advisor who was attuned to the family shareholders she worked with and was tremendously helpful as we set up a new independent board for one of the family's companies. She's direct, thorough and very straight forward in what was needed to reach the goals of the family and she was a trusted partner for all involved.