DeanSteele.com
Academic & Professional Profile
My formal academic and professional base. Research, writing, appearances and a living CV documenting my work across business psychology, change leadership and succession.
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The work of Dean Steele on strategy, succession and organisational continuity.
Future Unknown is the front door to my world: research, practice and projects at the intersection of business, law and organisational succession. This site connects the strands of my work – from probate and governance to strategic transformation and academic research.
Learn moreWho I Am
Dean Steele is a private adviser and doctoral researcher working at the junction of strategy, succession and organisational continuity. His background spans law, business psychology, marketing and long-term work with founder-led organisations, charities and family enterprises.
Over the last fifteen years he has advised families, boards and leadership teams on complex transitions: succession, restructuring, continuity and change. His work combines academic research, practical experience and a focus on long-term stability rather than short-term optimisation.
For a formal profile, publications and academic history, visit DeanSteele.com.
View full profileWork & Projects
One way to understand my work is through four core projects. Together they connect practice, law, consulting and research into a single thread: how organisations hand on responsibility over time.
Organisational Succession Institute
Research & Field-Building
A research-focused institute dedicated to Organisational Succession Science – the study of how leadership, ownership and responsibility are transferred over time, and how organisations preserve continuity while adapting to change.
Visit Organisational Succession InstituteUnGentle
Business Transformation & Consulting
Where frameworks meet practice. UnGentle works with organisations to design and implement strategic and operational roadmaps across marketing, operations, finance, HR and IT – applying many of the same ideas that inform my research in the field.
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Probate & Succession Roots
My original professional grounding in succession, probate and estate administration. Steele Rose works with clients who have complex requirements around estates, structures and continuity.
Visit SteeleRose.co.ukFocus & Themes
My work cuts across several disciplines, but it keeps circling the same questions: how organisations change, how responsibility moves, and how people live with those transitions in real time.
- • Organisational succession and continuity
- • Founder transitions and legacy
- • Strategic transformation and systems design
- • Behavioural and business psychology
- • Governance, boards and multi-generational structures
- • Charity and mission-driven organisations
- • The lived experience of change for families and leadership teams
Contact
If you are working in or around organisational succession, founder transition, governance or strategic change and believe our paths should cross, you can reach me via email. I do not publish a general service menu; most conversations begin with context, not a product.
Email:
dean@f.uk