by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
There is a conversation I find myself having regularly with the founders and family business owners I advise — a conversation that tends to produce immediate, visible discomfort. It goes something like this: your board is too close to you. You need an independent...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
There is a moment in every engagement — whether I’m stepping into a company as an advisor, helping a family office reposition its portfolio, or guiding a management team through a cross-border transaction — where the entire arc of the relationship is quietly...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
We celebrate growth. We celebrate the companies that doubled revenue in a year, the founders who built from zero to fifty employees in eighteen months, the executives who opened three new markets in two years. Business culture has constructed an entire mythology...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
There is a prevailing narrative in business culture — particularly in the technology and startup world — that equates youth with innovation, speed with intelligence, and disruption with leadership. The founder in the hoodie. The twenty-something who saw something the...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
I’ve sat across the table from a lot of leaders in crisis mode. And almost every time, somewhere in the first conversation, I hear a version of the same sentence: “We should have done this six months ago.” They’re right. And they know it. What...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
When a cross-border partnership unravels, the post-mortem usually lands on one of two explanations: strategic misalignment or cultural differences. Both are real factors. But in my experience advising businesses across North America, Europe, and Asia over the past 25...
