Estate Planning

‘Don’t eat the chicken’: Carol Lavin Bernick’s estate planning lessons

After a 37-year career creating and growing international brands at the Alberto Culver Company, founded by her parents, Carol Lavin Bernick negotiated the sale of the company to Unilever in 2011. Since then, she has led her family’s business office, Polished Nickel Capital Management. She discusses what she has learned about estate planning and what she teaches her children about wealth preservation.