A NEW BOOK BY ELLEN MILEY PERRY
A Field Guide for Tricky Families
The modern family needs a new handbook for happiness. In her newest work, Ellen brings us a refreshed, thought-provoking lens on navigating familial connection amidst our current reality.
Readers will get simple, practical tools told through decades of Ellen’s real-life stories in advising complex families. A Field Guide for Tricky Families is a poignant, highly relevant resource for any person hoping to heal themselves and their most treasured relationships.
In the meantime, scroll down to read about Ellen’s debut work, A Wealth of Possibilities.
A Wealth of Possibilities: Navigating Family, Money, and Legacy
What separates financially successful, multigenerational families who flourish from those who languish?
With professional knowledge, informed reflection, and poignant and charming anecdotes, Ellen shares her decades of experience in advising more than one hundred wealthy families.
A Wealth of Possibilities is a variegated road map of many accessible paths and byways for anyone seeking to improve their family’s internal communication, cohesion, and sense of well-being. Offering a bounty of practical advice, thoughtful insights, and probing questions, Ellen provides common sense approaches and profoundly meaningful solutions to many of the most vexing issues confronting wealthy families.
“Ellen has long been recognized as a leading advisor and educator of very wealthy families. Now her experience is being shared with all families in her deeply insightful book. She takes readers on a journey that will, if its advice is heeded, enable families to flourish. Run, don’t walk, to buy and read this book.”
James (Jay) E. Hughes Jr.
Author of Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family and Family: The Compact Among Generations
“Comprehensive, focused, and immediately useful, A Wealth of Possibilities is an articulate and enjoyable book dedicated to guiding families of significant wealth on their journey of multigenerational sustainability. This book is a mesmerizing combination of practical ideas and personal stories.”
Mel Lagomasino
CEO of GenSpring Family Offices
“Ellen draws upon her enormous experience in working with many generations of many families who possess great financial wealth to create this unique and practical book, a concise guide for families who want to get it right, to do as right by each other as they have by their finances, and to reach the end of life’s journey fulfilled and joyous, knowing that not only have they earned much money but they’ve shared much love. I give this book the highest marks.”
Edward Hallowell, M.D.
Author of The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
“Hidden among all those books on families and wealth management was a book that needed to be written, a book that would explicitly tell you how to create a joyful and healthy family in the midst of wealth and privilege! Perry writes with a generous heart clearly experienced in these very human affairs.”
Charlotte B. Beyer
Founder of Institute for Private Investors
Ellen in Collaboration
Explore chapters Ellen contributed to two influential books on family systems and intergenerational wisdom.
Your new family legacy starts here.