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Kelin E. Gersick, Ph.D.
Kelin E. Gersick (Senior Partner) has had a varied career as consultant, teacher, and author. He was raised in a business family in Illinois and earned a B.A. from Yale and Ph.D. from Harvard. Earlier in his career, he was an organizational consultant and family therapist in Boston and New Haven, CT. Kelin’s consulting work with family firms focuses on the impact of marital, parenting, sibling and cousin relationships on governance and business operations. He was the lead author for “Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business” (Harvard Business School Press, 1997), and from 1989 to 1993 was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Family Business Review. Currently, he is the principal investigator for “Leadership and Continuity in Family Foundations,” a nationwide study of family philanthropy across generations. Kelin is professor emeritus in the doctoral program at the California School of Professional Psychology and a Management Fellow at Yale. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Connie; they have two children.
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