New Release • 2025
Living Your Values
Connecting Personal, Family, and Organizational Values to Build Purpose and Clarity
By Cynthia Scott & Dennis Jaffe • Family Business Press 2025
About the Book
A practical and inspiring resource for people who want to live with clarity, purpose, and resilience. Living Your Values shows how values are the foundation of identity, decision-making, and well-being — and provides step-by-step guidance and learning journeys for clarifying guiding principles to foster collaboration, trust, and cultural coherence.
Developed from 30+ years of applications to conflict reduction, governance, succession/transition, and culture change with families, teams, and organizations worldwide.
Part 1: Explore Your Individual Values
Define your personal values, understand your unique values style, and build your Personal Values Pyramid.
Part 2: Apply Values to Groups
Apply your values to families, organizations, and communities. Build a culture of shared values and put them into action.
What's Inside
Personal Values Pyramid
Build your Personal Values Pyramid to identify and prioritize what matters most — clarify current, aspirational, and emerging values.
7 Learning Journeys
Action-oriented self-guided exercises to create values statements, strengthen accountability, and turn values into action.
8 Values Drivers Model
A model of 8 Values Drivers with real-life stories of families and organizations using values to thrive.
Family & Group Values
Frameworks for building a culture of shared values in families, groups, and organizations — supporting governance and culture change.
Real-World Stories
Case studies from individuals, families, and organizations who reduced conflict, improved alignment, and transformed through values work.
Purpose & Career Clarity
Connect your values to life purpose, career direction, transitions, and daily decision-making.
About the Authors
Cynthia Scott Ph.D., M.P.H.
Creator of the Values Edge Toolkit, Cynthia has spent over three decades helping individuals, teams, and families find purpose, clarity, and courage through values-based practices.
Dennis T. Jaffe, Ph.D.
A renowned expert in family enterprise, organizational change, and building leadership capacity across generations, Dennis brings deep insight into how values shape families and organizations.
Ready to begin?
The book pairs perfectly with the online exercise and physical toolkit for a complete values experience.