Dr. Donna Marino and her team help you sleep at night again — by removing the harmful family dynamics that cause conflict, derail succession, and quietly bottleneck business growth.
When you work with Dr. Donna Marino & Associates, you gain a team with a background in psychology — one that spots the root causes behind the interactions that put a pit in your stomach. You can have the best strategic plan in the world, but if the family can’t work together to execute it, it’s worthless.
Customized, evidence-based coaching for founders, heirs, and senior executives navigating succession, transition, or peak performance.
ExploreStructured sessions for family, ownership, and executive teams — moving the room from oppositional to aligned, with agreements that hold.
ExploreIn-depth, psychologist-built assessments of strengths, values, motivators, and thinking style — analyzed, integrated, and drawn from multiple sources.
ExploreThe best strategic plan is worthless without the human systems to implement it. Our work addresses the thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships that sabotage results — and then, and only then, does strategy stick.
A confidential diagnostic of the family system, the leadership team, and the business beneath the surface.
As psychologists we spot the unspoken rules and generational patterns others miss — and, more importantly, the why behind them.
Facilitated conversations that move the family from oppositional to aligned — with shared purpose and agreements that hold.
Solutions and learned skills that stick — so the family can manage conflict and transitions on its own long after we step back.
Dr. Marino is the umbrella over every engagement at the firm. Her associates are independent practitioners with their own client relationships, bringing complementary expertise in organizational behavior and leadership development.
Twenty-five years at the intersection of clinical psychology and family enterprise. A trusted advisor to founders, heirs, and boards navigating the consequential transitions that define a generation.
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A systems-oriented consultant working with family businesses and their leaders to strengthen organizational effectiveness, leadership capacity, and the human systems that shape performance.
Read full bio →You came into our life when we had hit rock bottom. We are working better and better each day. We have learned how to be siblings again — which in turn has led our business relationship to come from a place of respect and empathy.Jeanine · CEO, Family Business
“Dr. Donna has consistently impressed me with her ability to observe, to treat people with warmth, and to intervene effectively to help them live and work in a more satisfying way.”
“I’ve never had a better relationship with my father.”
“I saw palpable results in the first few weeks. Dr. Donna has helped me become a better leader, father, and partner.”
Names and identifying details are anonymized to protect client confidentiality. Each engagement spans 6–24 months of senior-leadership work.
A $180M Midwest manufacturer stalled by a ten-year standoff between the founder’s sons. Eighteen months of individual coaching and facilitated sibling sessions produced a written succession agreement, a restructured board, and the first on-time strategic plan in a decade.
The founder of a 75-person professional-services firm kept vetoing his own succession plan. We combined executive coaching with family-of-origin work and board facilitation. Eighteen months later, he chaired the first board meeting he didn’t run.
