Alan H. Lovins, Ph.D.
 Alan Lovins has been familiar with family businesses since childhood. His father was an entrepreneur and the family table talk often centered on the ups and downs of the business.
For the last 20 years, Alan Lovins has worked as a consultant to family owned businesses. He has been called upon to help parents and children accomplish succession, and he has helped siblings in business get along better so that parents were willing to transfer management and ownership. He has helped cousins to work together peacefully in 3rd generation businesses. He has helped married couples in business together to smooth out the bumps. He has also worked with medical and legal partnerships, which often face difficult succession issues similar to family businesses.
Dr. Lovins is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 35 years experience in counseling families, couples, and individuals. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia University. He has a master’s degree in sacred theology and is an ordained rabbi. Dr. Lovins has been an associate clinical professor at Yale University. He has served on the board of directors of the UConn Family Business Program and has facilitated groups of entrepreneurs. His work with family businesses includes succession planning, conflict resolution, communication strategies, inter-family issues, sibling dissention, gender issues, extended-family councils, off-site retreats, strategic planning, leadership transition, extended-family dynamics and retirement planning, and has served on family boards.
He is married, has 4 grown children, and six grandchildren.
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