"We cannot always build the future for our families, but we can build our families for the future"

After a stellar 20-year career of groundbreaking accomplishments as a lawyer and 6 years of making philanthropic investments at the second largest foundation in the U.S., the Ford Foundation, my guest, Thomasina Williams realized her personal passion and professional mission to help others avoid the loss of wealth and fracturing of relationships that befell her family.

Thomasina facilitates and coaches business-owning individuals and families to build stronger relationships and make better decisions, so their families flourish and businesses thrive across generations. She was the very first consultant in the nation hired by Wells Fargo Private Bank to go in-house and play a leadership role in building a new internal group to support its ultra-high net worth clients in navigating the family side of wealth.

Thomasina earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

She is a longtime student of Bowen Family Systems Theory, a Certified Resilient Leadership Coach, and a Conversational Intelligence Coach. Thomasina holds certificates in Advanced Family Business Advising and Family Wealth Advising from the Family Firm Institute. She is also a member of the Purposeful Planning Institute, where she serves on its Advisory Board; the Galliard Family Business Advisor Institute, where she serves on its Board; the Independent Trustee Alliance; and The Florida Bar.

Additionally, Thomasina serves on the Advisory Board of Enterprising Women magazine and the Advisory Council of the Women Business Collaborative, and is a member of the Inner Circle of How Women Lead.

Host: Brittany Sharpton