Advisory

Trusted guidance for ultra-high-net-worth families navigating behavioral complexity, next-generation development, family transitions, and periods of significant change.

Exceptional families often face challenges that cannot be solved through traditional consulting, therapy, or wealth planning alone.

As families grow in complexity, so do the demands placed on relationships, leadership, succession, parenting, and individual wellbeing. Moments of crisis, transition, or misalignment can have consequences that extend far beyond a single family member.

Sternlicht Advisory provides strategic family advisory services to ultra-high-net-worth families, family offices, principals, and international households seeking thoughtful guidance through complex personal and family challenges. Working alongside family members and trusted advisors, Sternlicht Advisory helps families create alignment, strengthen relationships, develop resilient next-generation leaders, and navigate difficult situations with discretion, clarity, and accountability.

Family Systems
& Alignment

Healthy families do not emerge by accident. They are built through trust, communication, accountability, and shared understanding.

This work focuses on strengthening family relationships, resolving patterns of conflict, improving communication across generations, and creating greater alignment among family members and key stakeholders.

Areas of focus may include

  1. Family dynamics and communication
  2. Parent-adult child relationships
  3. Family governance support
  4. Boundary setting and accountability
  5. Conflict resolution

Next-Generation
Development

Preparing the next generation requires more than education and opportunity. It requires character, resilience, responsibility, and purpose.

Lin works with emerging adults and next-generation family members to support healthy development, increased independence, emotional maturity, executive functioning, and successful transitions into adulthood.

Behavioral
Complexity

Families often encounter challenges that require specialized expertise, discretion, and coordinated support. This advisory area addresses complex behavioral and psychological concerns that may affect individual wellbeing, family functioning, and long-term stability.

Areas may include

  1. Substance misuse and recovery support
  2. Behavioral addiction and high-stakes gambling
  3. Mental health concerns
  4. Failure-to-launch dynamics
  5. Executive functioning challenges
  6. School, university, and career disruptions
  7. Treatment and care coordination

Life
Transitions

Periods of transition often place significant strain on individuals and families. Whether navigating educational transitions, launching into adulthood, marriage, parenthood, relocation, retirement, inheritance, leadership changes, or family restructuring, strategic guidance cam help families move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

Crisis
Navigation

When challenges escalate, families require decisive leadership and thoughtful coordination.

Lin provides trusted support during periods of instability, helping families assess situations, align resources, coordinate care, and establish a path forward while maintaining discretion and continuity.

Family Intensives
& Retreats

Some family challenges benefit from dedicated time and focused attention away from daily demands.

Family intensives and retreat provide an opportunity to address longstanding dynamics, improve communication, establish shared goals, and strengthen relationships in a structured and highly personalized environment.

Engagements are customized to the unique needs, goals, and circumstances of each family.

Inquiry

Engagement Inquiry

Families typically engage when a situation carries significance, complexity, or urgency.

Each inquiry is reviewed personally and treated with strict discretion. If appropriate, next steps will be outlined privately.

Due to the nature of the work, not all inquiries are accepted.

Global Engagement

Advisory services are available for select families and individuals across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Confidentiality

All communications are handled with strict discretion.

What Is Sternlicht Advisory?

Sternlicht Advisory is a private advisory firm serving individuals, families, and family offices navigating complex personal, interpersonal, and behavioral challenges.

We provide highly tailored guidance in areas including family dynamics, life transitions, relationship conflicts, habitual health concerns, and other sensitive matters that can impact personal well-being, family harmony, and long-term success.

Based in New York City and serving clients globally, our work is defined by discretion, sophistication, and a deeply personalized approach. We partner with clients to develop practical solutions, foster meaningful change, and help families thrive across generations while preserving what matters most.

Who Is Sternlicht Advisory?

While Sternlicht Advisory is led by Lin Sternlicht, each client engagement benefits from a carefully coordinated network of trusted professionals.

Depending on the needs of the individual or family, we frequently collaborate with psychiatrists, psychologists, executive coaches, family office professionals, financial advisors, attorneys, educational consultants, and other specialists. This integrated approach allows us to address complex challenges from multiple perspectives while maintaining a seamless and highly personalized client experience.

Lin serves as the central advisor and strategic point of contact, ensuring that all recommendations and services are aligned with each client’s unique goals, circumstances, and family dynamics.

Who Is Lin Sternlicht?

Lin Sternlicht is a Family Advisor to ultra-high-net-worth families, family offices, principals, and international households navigating complex family, behavioral, and family system challenges.

She serves as a trusted advisor during periods of transition, crisis, and growth, helping families strengthen relationships, develop resilient next-generation family members, and navigate challenges that can impact both family wellbeing and long-term legacy.

Drawing on her background in psychology and addiction treatment, Lin brings a rare combination of clinical expertise, strategic thinking, intuitive insight and practical judgment to highly complex family situations. She is known for her ability to quickly identify underlying dynamics, build trust across generations, and create effective paths forward in circumstances where traditional approaches have fallen short.

Her work spans emerging-adult development, failure-to-launch concerns, behavioral health challenges, family conflicts, executive functioning difficulties, educational transitions, and periods of significant family change. She collaborates closely with parents, next-generation family members, household staff, family-office executives, educational consultants, legal advisors, and treatment teams to ensure alignment and continuity of care.

Known for her discretion, strong boundaries, and unwavering commitment to her clients, Lin is valued for her willingness to address difficult realities directly while maintaining the trust and confidence of those she serves.  She combines intuition with disciplined judgment, offering guidance that is both compassionate and clear. Her presence helps families feel understood and supported, while her counsel provides the structure, accountability, and direction necessary for meaningful progress.

Lin advises families throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and is recognized for her ability to bridge psychological insight with the unique complexities of wealth, family governance, succession, and multigenerational stewardship.

Her work is grounded in the belief that enduring family success is built not only on financial capital, but on emotional health, personal responsibility, strong relationships, and the capacity to thrive across generations.

Press

Selected appearances and expert commentary on family dynamics, human behavior, wealth, legacy, and the complexities of modern family life.

Through a multidisciplinary lens, Sternlicht Advisory offers perspective on the personal and relational dynamics that shape families, leadership, and long-term legacies.

Television

  1. A&E Digital Addiction Series · Featured Expert
  2. Inside Edition How Much Drinking Is Too Much Drinking in Lockdown? Broadcast Segment
  3. Fox 5 New York Sports Betting on the Rise Among College-Age Adults Broadcast Segment

Books

  1. Abrams Books Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud By Ben McKenzie, with Jacob Silverman

Print & Digital

  1. The Washington Post Insomnia, Addiction, Depression: The Dark Side of Life Trading Crypto By Pranshu Verma
  2. BBC Luxury Rehab Centres Now Offer Therapy for ‘Crypto Addiction’ By Kelly Ng
  3. The Wall Street Journal How 20 Seconds Can Make You a Better Investor By Imani Moise
  4. Bloomberg Why It’s Harder to Tell Gambling from Investing Nowadays By Lu Wang
  5. Forbes Gambling Addiction: Symptoms, Causes and Treatments By Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman
  6. Daily Mail Inside the Luxury Rehab Centers for Crypto Addicts That Cost Up to $400,000 a Month By Kamal Sultan
  7. Newsweek Can People Become Addicted to Crypto? By Aristos Georgiou
  8. Fox Business New 0% Alcohol White Claw Draws Mockery and Praise From Social Media By Nikolas Lanum
  9. Canadian Family Offices Wealth No Armour Against Addiction By Natalya Anderson
  10. HuffPost Social Media Is Traumatizing Us More Than We Realize By Stephanie Barnes
  11. New York Post It’s Not Just You — Therapists Are Constantly Hearing These 5 Career Gripes By Perri Ormont Blumberg
  12. New York Post 10 Ways to Manage Stress, According to Mental Health Experts By Perri Ormont Blumberg
  13. WebMD 5 Helpful Tips for Supporting Your Child After an ADHD Diagnosis By Manjari Bansal