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, attorneys, finance experts, executive coaches, 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 legal, financial, and personal agreements, and documenting it all the right way to give your business partnership a solid foundation that lasts for years.

  • It’s often helpful to step back and refresh a partnership, for example to strengthen relationships, re-evaluate the business, or plan for the future.  We can help facilitate these frequently challenging conversations.

  • Support to help business partners work through significant conflicts of all kinds, so they are resolved quickly.

  • Help for when partners are entering or exiting the partnership, including valuations.

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

WHO WE HELP.

Professional Service
Partnerships 

Venture-Funded Co-Founders

Co-Leaders of Non-Profits 

Entrepreneurs 

  • “Our partnership bond and mutual understanding increased after working with The Partnership Works, and their perspective and guidance helped us harmonize and synthesize our perspectives on a variety of challenging topics. Their 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 The Partnership Works 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. The Partnership Works' wise counsel and high-impact teaming interventions have helped my partners and me turn engagement into results.”

    Clinton Moloney
    Managing Director, Accenture

  • “The Partnership Works got us to be honest and transparent, so we could get things out on the table and not retreat into corners. We trusted them 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 The Partnership Works helped us navigate it.”

    Joe Ernst
    Managing Partner, srmERNST Development Partners

  • “The impact of this work continues to resonate for me and my team. The Partnership Works shone a light on the partnership issues we had then, and they have an ability to see into the future to address what is coming. I highly recommend The Partnership Works to anyone seeking to bring their partners together to work in a single purposeful direction.”

    Derrick Rebello
    President and CEO, QuEST

Jonathan Becker
FOUNDER.

Jonathan founded and is the managing principal of The Partnership Works. Over more than twenty years, Jonathan has worked in business partnerships, consulted for business partnerships, and been a business partner himself. He understands the potential and challenges of this unique structure.

He leads a team with expertise in legal matters, finance, strategy, coaching, and counseling to provide business partners the range of support to succeed at every phase and with every kind of issue.

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).

CONTACT.