Advisory & Consulting Services

Bringing together Family Wealth, Well Being and Art to Build Positive New Futures
for Families and Businesses

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About Appanage Group

We have reimagined the future of family wealth and inheritance.

We have created innovative tools for personal and leadership development, 

all of it combining evidence-based models, empirical data and our rich professional experience.

Our Mission & Vision

We create robust empirical-based tools and positive environments to transform your well-being, your family’s and your team’s

Our Services

We focus in areas of Family and Relational & Leadership Skills Development utilizing a range of empirical and creative tools

Family Wealth and Well Being

Appanage supports wealth and inheritance planning for families across multiple generations. We use a positive approach and creative tools rooted in our belief that family wealth and inheritance planning is more likely to be successful if it promotes the human development of family members. We regard wealth as an accelerator of a person's well-being and flourishing.

Interpersonal Skill Development through Art

At Appanage, we believe that art is at the core of individual and collective healthy evolution. We work with a variety of tools that use art and other modes of creativity to facilitate experiential learning with a focus on personal and interpersonal skills such as emotional intelligence, opening to diversity and embracing inclusion, developing empathy and other relational skills and more.

Our Team

We are seasoned professionals who bring the best of us to our clients.

Claudia Tordini

Principal

Richard S. Franklin

Consultant

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Testimonials

"Thank you Claudia Tordini for leading our group over the summer. I got so much from your guiding commentary and thought provoking questions, as well as from my peers in the class who shared honestly and openly because of the safe environment the classroom provided. "
Student of Developing Emotional Intelligence through Art at University of Pennsylvania
"Very interesting material and way to stretch my understanding of diversity. Creative and interactive "
Student of Embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through Art at Arlington Public Schools
"Claudia is a fabulous teacher with a lovely presence. Very knowledgeable and good presenter. She had wonderful exercises for us all and the class time flew by! "
Student of Developing Emotional Intelligence through Art at Arlington Public Schools