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Financial planner and family business consultant Johnne Syverson helps families and business owners design and plan their futures. He teaches families how to pass on their values to future generations and prepare their heirs to receive financial and emotional inheritance. Syverson provides advice on charitable tax planning, which enables farmers to increase their income, reduce taxes and preserve their estate for heirs and charities.

As a family business consultant, Lance Woodbury works with family-owned and closely-held ag businesses. His areas of expertise include facilitation, strategic planning and crafting succession plans. Prior to forming his own firm, Woodbury served as the agriculture practice leader at Kennedy and Coe and as a rural community economic development director. He maintains an interest in his family’s Kansas ranch and is the author of “The Enduring Legacy: Essential Family Business Values.”

As owner and founder of Alternatives to Conflict LLC, Carolyn Rodenberg has an extensive background in negotiation, business development and communication. Her firm, located in Virginia, focuses on solving and preventing conflict in the workplace, which includes mediating differences at play during the succession planning process. Through her work, she has facilitated positive changes within family-owned and closely-held businesses, such as farm operations, telephone companies and banks.

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Chris Gillies is a freelance writer with a passion for agriculture and telling the farm to plate story across social media, web and print media. His start into Australian agriculture began when he enrolled at Orange Agricultural College and had his eyes opened to the vital role agriculture plays not only in Australia but also the world. On graduation Chris moved to the city to take up a graduate role on the GrainCorp wheat and pools desk. In 2001 he swapped the city and the large trader to join a small grain marketing and handler based in Hillston New South Wales where he did everything from originating grain, selling, loading and unloading trucks and keeping track of stock levels. Returning to the city a few years later he has worked across a wide sector including shipping and supply chain management but was drawn back to agriculture in 2009 taking up a communications role at Meat & Livestock Australia. In 2010, Chris returned to GrainCorp as a communications manager before making a leap into freelance by establishing Jam Tin Copy. Follow Chris on twitter (@jamtincopy) and click here to email him.

Jim Wiesemeyer and Roger Bernard, of Informa Economics, serve as Pro Farmer’s Washington Consultants and contribute to Pro Farmer Newsletter.

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