Meet Our Team

Mark Wickman

Mark is the founder of Family Business Counsel and is fortunate to spend his best hours and efforts convening and facilitating conversations with small businesses, families and organizations – helping them have the conversations they know they need to have but avoid. Mark is the author of two books:

• The Family Business Teeter Totter (Balancing Those Two Wor(l)ds) – available on Amazon.
• “Wealth or Well-th? Re-defining Financial Freedom” – self-published.

Mark has been a presenter on a variety of topics that family businesses encounter, including:

• Mining Conflict – how to change from viewing conflict as a Land Mine to viewing it as a Gold Mine.
• The challenges of multiple generations working together.
• The high cost of inaction.
• Creating healthy culture, particularly around communication.

Mark believes that family businesses are the primary entity creating jobs in our cities and towns and that they help promote the potential for communities to experience flourishing futures. 

Mark graduated with a Bachelors and a Masters from Linfield College. Mark and his wife Lyn have been married since 1986 and are the parents of two adult children, Lindsay and Drew. They are committed to the ideals of healthy communication and healthy communities and continue to be involved with a variety of local, regional and international causes.

Martha Nicol

Martha joined Family Business Counsel as the director of operations in April of 2016 after spending 25 years in healthcare administration. She met Mark many years ago and the two had often talked about working together and were excited when it all came together.

Martha and her husband Abby have been married since 1981 and have two grown children and three grandchildren. Their favorite pastimes are traveling and playing with the grandkids.