Speakers
Tom Hill
Session: Tom Hill
The research is unambiguous, and uncomfortable: more than 70% of inheritors intend to change advisers when wealth transfers to them. Three in four next-generation family members across the region report low trust with the generation above and, by extension, with the advisers who serve them. The relationships that will carry a practice through the coming decade are not the ones being managed today. They are the ones being built now, with a generation that asks why before it asks how.
Tom Hill is that generation. A member of the Hill Tribe Family Office, established in Western Australia on the legacy of a family business built around people and principles. Tom represents the client the research describes: values-led, purpose-first, community-minded, and deliberate about who earns a seat at the family's table.
In this fireside conversation, he offers advisers a rare view from the other side of the desk: what drew the family to build its own office, what they look for in the advisers they retain, what quietly disqualifies the rest, and why the next generation measures advice not by product or performance alone, but by whether an adviser understands what the wealth is for.
Candid, practical and occasionally confronting. This is the conversation every adviser says they want to have with the next generation.
Tom Hill is a committed advocate for values-driven investment and community development in Western Australia. Drawing on a rich heritage shaped by a family business that prioritised people and principles in conjunction with executive hospitality experience, Tom brings a grounded and purpose-led approach to impact investing.
As a founding member of the Hill Tribe Family Office, established in 2024, Tom is dedicated to advancing the well-being of Western Australia and contributing to global progress for future generations. The Family Office is guided by a clear mission: to foster a vibrant community where integrity informs decision-making, empowerment drives opportunity, and happiness remains central to sustainable growth.
Tom currently works to position the family office investment portfolio to achieve long term systemic change, using the philanthropic principles of Time, Talent, Testimony, Ties and Treasure to achieve sustainable returns while eliciting an excess for impact.
Stuart Wesley is a highly experienced leadership coach and organizational development consultant who specializes in empowering family enterprises to achieve both commercial success and rich, harmonious family relationships. With deep expertise in culture development, leadership coaching, and conflict resolution, Stuart operates on the foundational philosophy that "human interaction is a core business process." He is particularly adept at cultivating relational maturity and refining human dynamics within complex business structures.
Stuart’s understanding of the unique highs and lows of family enterprises began early in his life while working in his family’s glass and aluminum window business. Driven by a passion for supporting the growth and development of others, he initially pursued a successful vocation in pastoral ministry. In this capacity, his natural talents for public speaking, coaching, and leadership flourished, leading to active roles in the national leadership of his denomination and the establishment of new faith communities. Driven by a desire to bring his expertise to the broader commercial landscape, Stuart transitioned into corporate consulting, bringing together his lived experience in the family business with his profound understanding of human dynamics.
To support his consulting practice, Stuart undertook rigorous university-level education and specialized training in coaching and organizational development. He holds a Bachelor of Theology from the Sydney College of Divinity, alongside a Diploma of Professional Coaching and a Graduate Diploma of Ontological Coaching. Furthermore, he is a Human Change Management Certified Professional (HCMBOK) and an accredited practitioner in several advanced behavioral and vocational frameworks, including the Integrative9 Enneagram, Pro-d Vocational Assessment, and DISC Personality Assessment.
Outside of his professional endeavors, Stuart and his wife, Carolyn, enjoy a rich and fulfilling family life with their four adult children and a growing band of grandchildren.