About 

Founded in 2002, MCV Consulting, LLC, is a family enterprise advisory dedicated to empowering family enterprises and the individuals in them to succeed and flourish across generations. 

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Margaret Vaughan Cox
​Founder and President 
 
Margaret has more than 25 years of experience in family enterprise governance, generational transitions, and strategic planning. As president of MCV Consulting and co-founder of Enterprise Family Advisors, she advises enterprise families and their boards, family offices, and family councils on establishing a shared vision, designing and evolving governance and decision-making structures, planning and implementing leadership and ownership succession, and developing the family qualitative capital that sustains an enterprise across generations. She often works with several generations within the same family over many years, and her practice has taken her throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia, South Africa, and the Middle East.

Her advisory work is grounded in a career that began in strategy consulting. Prior to founding MCV Consulting in 2002, Margaret was a principal at Generon Consulting in Boston (now Reos Partners and Generon International), where she advised corporations across multiple sectors, including Fortune 500 companies, as well as governments, nonprofits, and NGOs, and became an experienced scenario planner. She has since adapted scenario planning to the family enterprise, using it to help families test long-horizon decisions against uncertainty and build alignment across generations. Margaret is co-author of Build an Enterprise Family to Last (James E. Hughes, Jr. Foundation Publishing, 2024) and speaks frequently on family enterprise governance and continuity.

Margaret's professional associations include membership in the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Private Directors Association, the Purposeful Planning Institute, the Collaborative for Family Flourishing, and the International Women's Forum. She serves as a director of the Houston Advanced Research Center, a trustee of Houston Ballet, and an advisory council member of YES Prep Public Schools. Her prior board service includes the Salvation Army of Greater Houston Area Command, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Owen Graduate School of Management Alumni Board, and The Texas Lyceum.

Margaret holds a BA in English literature and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. She is a certified facilitator of scenario planning through the Global Business Network, a graduate of the Society for Organizational Learning's Foundations for Leadership program, and a Birkman® certified coach.

Margaret and her husband Jonathan have three adult children and live in Houston, Texas.