BIOGRAPHY

  David M. Paradise, Ph.D. Founder and President, has over 30 years experience in counseling individuals and families in family-owned firms, as well as consulting with retailers, manufacturers, and corporate organizations. As an organizational development specialist initially trained to diagnose and treat emotional environment in individual and group settings, he created this firm almost two decades ago. Since then he has assisted hundreds of local, regional, and national businesses which have turned to the Family Business Resource Center to meet the challenges they face. He earned his doctorate at Smith College School for Social Work and did his post doctorate work at the Harvard Medical and Business Schools in organizational diagnosis.

PROFESSIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS AFFILIATIONS

David Paradise is a member of the Board of Directors of The Family Firm Institute, New England Chapter (www.ffi.org), an international professional  organization dedicated to providing interdisciplinary education opportunities for family business advisors, consultants, educators and researchers and to raising public awareness about trends and developments in the family business field.  On the local level, David is Co-Chair of the Program Committee and organizes the quarterly interdisciplinary educational and networking meetings.

David is founding member of a local interdisciplinary Family Firm Institute New England Chapter Study Group that explores current topics of interest in the field of family business advisory services.

David is also a member of the Organizing Committee of the 2007 Massachusetts Family Business of the Year Awards, a joint venture of The Family Firm Institute New England Chapter and Northeastern University Center for Family Business dedicated to honoring the most successfully run and managed Massachusetts-based family businesses and entrepreneurships (www.nuffi.org).