About 

Founded in 2002, MCV Consulting, LLC, is a family enterprise consultancy dedicated to helping family enterprises and the individuals in them succeed and thrive across generations. 

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Margaret Vaughan Cox
​Founder and President 
 
As a top practitioner in the field of family enterprise consulting, Margaret is sought out by sophisticated wealth owners to thoughtfully plan for and help navigate their enterprises through 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 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 forward 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.
 
Margaret is co-author of Build an Enterprise Family to Last and co-founder of Enterprise Family Advisors, which advises families on the cultural and structural elements necessary to support the enterprise's successful evolution across generations. Prior to founding MCV Consulting 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 working in high stakes environments such as post-apartheid South Africa and the Middle East. Margaret became recognized for her ability to draw forth and honor all stakeholder viewpoints, leading to the identification of solutions around which all parties were impassioned and committed. 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 achieving it.

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.

An avid civic volunteer, Margaret currently serves on the Houston Ballet board of trustees, the Houston Advanced Research Center for Sustainability Science board of directors, the Menil Collection Council, and Yes Prep Public Schools advisory council. She is a member of the Collaboration for Family Flourishing, the International Women’s Forum, and is 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.