Johannes Faupel

Keyman coach: What must he be able to do?

A keyman coach must know the neighbouring disciplines well enough to ask the right questions and to know when who belongs at the table: law, tax, banks, insurance, valuation, governance, IT, health, family, communication, hospitals and research, and confidentiality. Each of these disciplines secures one part. The link between them is made in conversation with the people who carry the risk.

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Keyman coach: Which disciplines must he know?

  • Law: who may represent the organisation, what happens to shares, and who acts when the owner can no longer decide.
  • Tax: what inheritance tax on business assets requires of the heirs, and how a keyman policy is treated.
  • Banks: whose powers of attorney apply in an emergency and beyond death, and who can release payments.
  • Insurance: what a keyman policy pays, and to whom.
  • Valuation and sale: how dependence on a key person shows in the price.
  • Governance: who holds interim authority, agreed in advance.
  • IT: which access rights, passwords and administrator rights lie with one person.
  • Health: what an interim absence through illness or exhaustion changes.
  • Family: life's work, loyalty and informal authority.
  • Communication: who informs whom in the first days of an emergency.
  • Hospitals and research: training authorisations and project leadership tied to one person.
  • Confidentiality: which professions are bound to secrecy and what protects trade secrets.

Each profession works on its part: the lawyer on the contract, the tax adviser on the tax, the bank on the power of attorney, the insurer on the policy. What lies between the parts belongs to no profession: whether the deputy has the trust of owner, family and staff, whether the heirs agree on their roles, whether the founder can let go, whether the life's work is honoured.

  • Law: the contract names the representative. Whether he will be accepted is settled in conversation.
  • Tax: the tax adviser calculates what the heirs must maintain for five years. Whether they want to and are able to is a question for the family.
  • Banks: the bank checks signatures and powers of attorney. Whether the person holding them has the owner's trust is a different question.
  • Insurance: the policy pays money. Decisions, relationships and knowledge remain open.
  • Health: doctors treat the illness. Who takes over in the meantime is settled before.
  • Family: the will distributes assets. Whether the family stays at peace is settled in conversation.
  • Confidentiality: clauses regulate what may not be passed on. Openness needs a room of trust.

This is where keyman coaching starts: Johannes Faupel clarifies with owners, families and successors what is wanted before the professionals put it into words, and invites representatives of other professions when negotiations are due.

Keyman coach: How does he differ from an executive coach?

Key Person Risk (Keyman Risk): How can it be minimised?

The One Session: Key Person Risk Coaching

The One Session is a four-hour 1:1 intensive session in Frankfurt am Main, optionally online. It identifies the imponderables and uncertainties that matter beyond financial data, insurance benefits and production security: among them trust in deputies and successors and the appreciation of the life's work of founder personalities. Fee: EUR 5,000 plus 19 % VAT, B2B.

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Phone: +49 69 4800 8888
Email: info@johannesfaupel.com

Keyman Coaching with Johannes Faupel

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