Family business succession that builds family relationships and continues to perpetuate a successful business requires attention, time investment, deliberate planning, and communication. We need to free each other up to think about what success looks like – how next gens and current owners and managers think about what success is for them – and make sure we fit that in, said Barb Dartt, family business consultant and former veterinarian and economist, who led a presentation on succession planning at the Northeast Dairy Management Conference.