icebreaQers JAQ
icebreaQers JAQ, a subsidiary of the family-owned icebreaQers brand focuses on business family advisory for the families directly and indirectly involved with the operations of the family business and the family enterprise.
Our focus includes mental health assessment and therapy, interpersonal communication, generational gap risk management, and an array of supportive services for the interconnected systems of a business family.
We do not advise family businesses ‘how to manage’ their family business, rather, we advise them ‘how to manage’ their family as a tool to focus on operating their family business, and enterprise.
Services
Family Counseling and Therapy
Succession and Continuity Planning
Crisis Negotiation for Family Disputes
Family Relationship Threat Assessment and Referral
Stress-Anxiety-Depression Management
Role-planning, Family Modeling, and Visualization for Success
Education for Emotional and Instrumental Support
Generation Gap Perspectives, and Communication Training
Managing Trauma and Vicarious Trauma from Family and Family Business Conflict
Clients
Family
members
running the
business
Family members
who are not
operating the
business
NON-FAMILY
MANAGEMENT
AND EMPLOYEES
Succeeding
generations
Retired
generations
External
stakeholders
such as advisors,
consultants, etc.
Process
Once you contact a member from icebreaQers JAQ, the team completes an assessment and presents the intervention plan. icebreaQers JAQ specialists have seen the most success when families proactively prepare for risks and evaluate unforeseen inter and intra-family circumstances – across generations. icebreaQers JAQ is available in person and via hybrid mode to clients the world over.
What’s in the Name?
About 90% of all businesses are family-owned or controlled by a family (Forbes, 2013). About 40% of family-owned businesses transition into second-generation businesses, only 13% are then passed down successfully to a third generation, while a mere 3% survive to a fourth or beyond (Businessweek.com, 2010). Etc.
Depending on the game you’re playing, Kings (family members operating the family business) are often the highest-ranking cards. Then come the Queens (family members not operating the family business, generally spouses). And then come princes and princesses, right? (family business successors, generally the next generation). But, no, decks of cards have neither of those. Instead, we have Jacks, which is weird because in almost no other context is the word “Jack” used in reference to a royal court. So, who is this JAQ (successor), and where does she/he come from, or where should she/he come from, or not come from?
What’s in the Name?
About 90% of all businesses are family-owned or controlled by a family (Forbes, 2013). About 40% of family-owned businesses transition into second-generation businesses, only 13% are then passed down successfully to a third generation, while a mere 3% survive to a fourth or beyond (Businessweek.com, 2010). Etc.
Depending on the game you’re playing, Kings (family members operating the family business) are often the highest-ranking cards. Then come the Queens (family members not operating the family business, generally spouses). And then come princes and princesses, right? (family business successors, generally the next generation). But, no, decks of cards have neither of those. Instead, we have Jacks, which is weird because in almost no other context is the word “Jack” used in reference to a royal court. So, who is this JAQ (successor), and where does she/he come from, or where should she/he come from, or not come from?
Founders
icebreaQers JAQ was inspired by the Jayakar And Quenim (JAQ) Family Business story of the rise, fall, and resurrection of two families. Amita Quenim/Jayakar, a 2nd generation family business successor and family business psychologist, collaborated with her son Anish Quenim, a 3rd generation family business successor and faculty for the course on Family Enterprise at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas – USA to develop a model for families of family businesses to help families better understand the circle of a family business crisis and assist families before-during-after.
Headquartered in Goa, India, and advised from the United States of America, this mother-son duo is helping co-author narratives for families the world over, to ensure the family crisis they endured, and successfully mitigated is an evidence-based, research-informed learning for families and interconnected systems.