Business partnerships are tricky. 

We can help.

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Successful business partnerships can be incredibly rewarding and fulfilling, but they have inherent challenges and, sadly, many of them fail. Bringing together business consultants, leadership development experts, executive coaches, attorneys, and even therapists, we can help business partners – in any part of the journey – succeed together. 

SERVICES.

  • We can ensure you’re asking the right questions, making the right business and personal agreements, and documenting it all the right way to give your business partnership a solid foundation that lasts for years.

  • Support to help business partners work through significant conflicts of all kinds.

  • Development for people who have potential to rise into the partner ranks.

  • Strategy and organizational support to ensure your business is set up to succeed and that business stresses don’t harm the business partner relationship.

  • Focused support for individual business partners to support them as partners as well as in their role as leaders of the business.

  • Help for when partners are entering or exiting the partnerships. 

  • Direct support to help business partners and the people who work for them raise their games. 

  • Speeches and workshops on different topics related to successful business partnerships, tailored to the audience. 

WHO WE HELP.

Professional Service
Partnerships 

Investor-Funded
Co-Founders
or Founding Teams 

Entrepreneurs
and Co-Franchisees 

Co-Leaders of
Non-Profits

  • “Our partnership bond and mutual understanding increased after working with Jonathan, and his perspective and guidance helped us harmonize and synthesize our perspectives on a variety of challenging topics. Jonathan's true understanding of the subtleties inherent in a medium-sized professional services partnership was a real asset during our engagement. A consultant with only a focus on larger corporate issues wouldn't be nearly as valuable as Jonathan was.”

    Marc Steyer, SE, LEED AP
    Principal, Tipping Structural Engineers

  • “In my business, we work at the intersection of technology and human creativity to help our clients transform around sustainability. Building diverse, high-performance teams has been central to our success. Jonathan’s wise counsel and high-impact teaming interventions have helped my partners and me turn engagement into results.”

    Clinton Moloney
    Managing Director, Accenture

  • “Jonathan got us to be honest and transparent, so we could get things out on the table and not retreat into corners. We trusted him as a neutral third party who didn’t take sides or have an interest beyond our shared success. Business partnerships are not just about legal and technical matters. There’s a human side, and Jonathan helped us navigate it.”

    Joe Ernst
    Managing Partner, srmERNST Development Partners

  • “Over a decade later, the impact of Jonathan’s work continues to resonate for me and my team. He shone a light on the partnership issues we had then, and he has an ability to see into the future to address what is coming. I highly recommend Jonathan to anyone seeking to bring their partners together to work in a single purposeful direction.”

    Derrick Rebello
    President and CEO, QuEST

Jonathan Becker
FOUNDER.

For more than twenty years, Jonathan has worked in business partnerships and consulted for business partnerships, and he has been a business partner himself. He understands the potential and challenges of this unique structure.

His style is encouraging, positive, and supportive, yet he speaks the truth directly to break through difficult challenges. Along the way, he likes to have fun, but he is intense about the work and achieving real results.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children. Jonathan graduated from Yale University (BA, Political Science) and U.C. Berkeley (MBA, concentration on organizational behavior), where he was named one of the five most outstanding students in his class.

He is the board chair of Children Rising, which supports children in the Oakland, California schools in catching up to grade level. He has participated in the California AIDS Ride and a Team in Training triathlon.

CONTACT.