Rooted In Family
Honoring The Past While Creating Our Future
Rooted in Family, Honoring The Past While Creating Our Future shares Caroline Coleman Bailey’s journey of her life and experiences coming from two entrepreneurial families, working in the family business, and finding her own way.
Through storytelling, Caroline honors her roots and imparts invaluable and inspiring insights gained along her path. By discovering her true self, she found her passion and place in her family and the world, one of meaning and purpose.
The sentiment at the heart of the book is the importance of honoring family roots and striving for family unity, especially in these modern and uncertain times. Caroline’s message is incredibly relevant and timely, one of optimism and hope, as we look to our future and create a thriving legacy for generations to come.
“I have been sculpted by people, places, and experiences along my life journey. I treasure those who influenced my adventures and am grateful to them all—past, present, and future.”
— Caroline
Praise For Rooted In Family
“This book offers a fresh and loving perspective from inside one of America’s most iconic families. It provides an inspiring example of the importance of “The Business of Family” and is a story born out of current times, when we are all forced to slow down, breathe, and reexamine the things that matter.”
— Alison Davis, Managing Partner, Fifth Era
“Rooted in Family brings to life the author’s story as a member of a legacy family enterprise who carves her own path as an independent businesswoman, as a seeker of inner wisdom, and a philanthropist. It is a compelling and candid account of the obstacles and opportunities that she faced along the way, marked by her courage, honest self-reflection, resilience, and wise teachings.”
— Joan DiFuria & Dr. Stephen Goldbart, Co-founders, Money, Meaning & Choices Institute
“Caroline Bailey gives us a window into the legacy of a family business through her own personal experience and those of family businesses she has known and guided. What we learn is that, especially in these difficult times, there’s no place like home and your family business.”
— Nely Galan, New York Times bestselling author, Self-Made
“Caroline shares her life experiences and how she takes her learning first to her family, and then to the world in her service and work. Inspiring and candid, she shows how a person from a legacy family can create her own path in life.”
— Dennis T. Jaffe, PhD, Research Associate, Wise Counsel Research, author Borrowed From Your Grandchildren
“While there are many family business “text” books offering best practice approaches to successfully transition governance over time, few books reinforce the most important aspect of all, which is the need as a family member to find our own identity, passions and balance, and how to live our own life, not just the life of the business.”
— Frank Mars, Fourth Generation, Mars, Incorporated
“Caroline's own family business background, combined with her work with families all over the world, make this book an incredible resource for all business families that want to keep their families together!”
— Edouard Thijssen, Fifth Generation member of the family behind the Belgian Aliaxis Group & Co-Founder & CEO, Trusted Family
“Caroline explores family/work/life balance and relates the hard choices encountered on her journey. It takes courage to turn the mirror around and reflect on yourself, life’s lessons, and your passions.”
— Carolyn Wente, Fourth Generation Winegrower, CEO, Wente Family Estates
“For family members, it is often difficult to find a unique voice of leadership and the courage to act. Through keen insight, honest storytelling about the evolution of her own family, Caroline’s invaluable offering will help family members and advisors alike.”
— Matthew Wesley, Managing Director, Merrill Center for Family Wealth