Peter Leach

Spear’s Review

Peter Leach has been described as the ‘founding father of family business thinking in the UK’. Previously at Deloitte, he founded Peter Leach Associates in 2019.  

Leach’s wide-ranging practice covers advisory work with family enterprises. Leach says his experience has taught him that there are three kinds of difficulties in family businesses: ‘Personality, structure and the business itself. While everybody blames the personality, my belief is that it is rarely the personality which is the root of the problem, but that the structure is wrong.’

He is the author of Family Enterprises: The Essentials as well as numerous practical guides, and works as an adjunct professor of family business at Imperial College.