Margaret Vaughan Cox
Founder and President As a top practitioner in the field of family enterprise consulting, Margaret is sought out by sophisticated and high-profile wealth owners to thoughtfully plan for and navigate complex generational transitions. Margaret works with families to establish a shared vision and goals for their enterprise, create and evolve effective governance and decision-making structures, develop succession plans, and nurture the valuable capital that enriches the family beyond the financial assets. She builds enduring relationships with her clients, often serving as a trusted advisor to multiple generations in a family over the course of many years. She is routinely referred to clients by wealth advisors, estate planning attorneys, and other key advisors who realize important conversations and alignments must be achieved before the family can proceed together successfully. With over 25 years of experience in her field, Margaret’s work has taken her throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia, South Africa, and the Middle East. In addition to founding MCV Consulting, Margaret is co-founder of Enterprise Family Advisors, which advises families on adopting the mindset and necessary structures to allow the enterprise to evolve and thrive over multiple generations. Prior to forming MCV in 2002, Margaret served as a principal at Generon Consulting (now Reos Partners and Generon International) in Boston where she honed her skills as a strategy consultant and became an experienced scenario planner with a diverse international client base of corporations, nonprofits, governments, and NGOs. After founding MCV, Margaret began applying the methodology of scenario planning to helping families identify a dynamic shared vision for the future and a clear plan for getting there. Margaret earned a BA in English Literature and MBA from Vanderbilt University. She received certification in the facilitation of scenario planning through the Global Business Network (GBN) in Amsterdam, is a graduate of the Society for Organizational Learning’s Foundations for Leadership program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a Birkman® certified coach. Additionally, Margaret is a graduate of the American Works of Art Masters Program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York City. Margaret currently serves as a trustee of the Houston Ballet, a director of the Houston Advanced Research Center for Sustainability Science, and an advisory council member of The James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University. She is a member of the International Women’s Forum and a director emeritus of The Texas Lyceum, a select group of 96 leaders from across the state of Texas. Margaret and her husband have three children and live in Houston, Texas. |