Speakers
Session
A seventh-generation perspective on what it actually takes to make a legacy live.
Purpose: Opening Family Office Congress XVII with the human core of family wealth — legacy as a continuous practice, lived intergenerationally, not as a one-time transfer event.
Discussion: Peter draws on decades advising legacy families — including from inside one of America’s longest-running family enterprises — on what makes a legacy genuinely live across generations versus what makes it stagnate.
Outcomes: A framing for the entire Family Office Congress XVII, a different vocabulary for the legacy conversation in your own family, and a frame you’ll carry into the room with you across the next two days.
Peter helps to create the conditions where affluent families have the greatest chance of flourishing. He has worked with and presented to hundreds of families on six continents.
Peter’s primary engagements are long-term as a personne de confiance, helping legacy families sustain their family and business relationships for many generations.
For decades, Peter was involved in many facets of Laird Norton Company LLC, an 8th generation family enterprise. He concluded his tenure as President in 2003. His responsibilities at Laird Norton included the stewardship of the long-held values and traditions of 400+ family members’ financial, intellectual, social and human assets. He remains a member of the family and company.
Peter is currently advising several global legacy families and working on projects which support an expansion of consciousness in individuals and groups.