Professional Bio
Steven S. Rolfe M.D., Managing Principal of RolfeAdvisory LLC., specializes in advising leaders and family enterprises who are confronting and deeply impacted by personal life crisis. These may include serious medical or psychological illness, loss, incapacitation due to injury, divorce or intractable interpersonal or family conflict.
As an advisor and confidante to CEO’s, family business owners, and high net worth families, Steve works to create solutions to complex leadership challenges, including family and management conflict, strategic and interpersonal impasse and leadership transitions. Steve addresses the most personal and interpersonal aspects of family and business life, helping to develop adaptive, aligned, high performance leaders, families, and organizations.
As a physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst who lives in the business world. Steve has experience facilitating groups of CEOs, many of whom are owners of family businesses. The longest running (5 years) of these groups, is CEOs in the business to business media space.
Steve is an Executive Coach in the McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton. In this capacity he coaches MBA and Executive MBA students. His focus is working with students from family enterprises who have challenges as next generation leaders and are often wrestling with the question of whether or not to return to their legacy family business post MBA.
His work with multigenerational families involves collaborating with wealth managers, attorneys and other stakeholders and focusing on family dynamics to ensure families address their psychological and personal well being in the context of meeting their financial objectives. The goal of this consulting work is to effectively address family conflict that often arises as families attempt to productively manage shared assets for the benefit of themselves, their stakeholders, and future generations.
Steve is a Fellow in the Family Firm Institute where he earned his Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising. He is Chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Committee on Corporate and Organizational Consultation and a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia. He has been a Senior Associate for the Kets de Vries Institute based in Paris. His global consulting experience includes coaching for the World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows Program.
