My interest in succession planning

A quick five with Gregory Dale from MediatingWorks

“I've been a participant of a farm succession process, with a big farming family, which I married into. The family farm was being migrated from one generation to the next. It was a long but rewarding process, and it needed a lot of detail, and talking, because it was a big group. There were many people involved. There was a series of meetings, and we had a meeting facilitator. That was important, and helpful. 

Having gone through that, it helped me understand the value of good facilitation, and someone to hold the space for good communication throughout the farm succession process. 

“I’m a farmer myself. I like farmers - they make things, grow things, produce things, they feed the world. I’m a farmer myself, on a small scale. I've heard lots of stories from farmers. I’m comfortable being with and talking with farmers, and I think they’re comfortable with me!”