A new book by Kevin A. DeAllen

Blind Spots of Wealth

How Cognitive Biases Destroy Family Fortunes

Kevin A. DeAllen

There is a question that keeps wealth advisors, family office directors, and the stewards of generational legacies up at night.

Why do brilliant, accomplished people consistently make the same destructive decisions with their wealth, their families, and their organizations?

The answer isn't intelligence. It's cognitive bias.

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A NEW BOOK BY KEVIN A. DeALLEN

Blind Spots of Wealth

How Cognitive Biases Destroy Family Fortunes

KEVIN A. DeALLEN

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Cognitive Biases

Named, defined, and mapped to the patterns of generational wealth that allow them to take root — and the countermeasures that interrupt them.

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Generations

The Rock who builds. The Paper who deploys. The Scissors who analyzes. Each generation carries its own blind spots — and its own power to break the pattern.

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Framework

The Rochambeau Sequence is a proprietary generational wealth framework built on the observation that ultra-privileged families don't fail by accident. They fail by pattern.

The Rochambeau Sequence

Every family that builds
significant wealth
plays the same game.

They just don't know it. The first generation builds. The second deploys. The third analyzes. Rock. Paper. Scissors. The Rochambeau Sequence maps three distinct generational archetypes and gives families, advisors, and rising generation members a shared language for understanding why they see the world so differently from one another.

The Rock

The Builder

Rock is strong. The wealth-building generation creates through force of will, discipline, and singular focus. Their blind spots are forged from the same material as their greatness — and they are the beginning of the story.

The Paper

The Deployer

Paper is currency. The capital-deploying generation multiplies wealth through relationships, access, and influence. Their blind spots live in the gap between what they were given and what they were never taught to carry.

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The Scissors

The Analyst

Scissors are sharp. The intellectual generation cuts through complexity with precision and insight. Their blind spots are the most dangerous — and the most correctable — because they can see everything except what they cannot yet feel.

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About the Author

Kevin A.
DeAllen

Senior Birkman Consultant since 1994
Board Chair · St. Mary's School, Aliso Viejo
Coach to Superheroes · Keynote Storyteller

For over 30 years, Kevin DeAllen has applied behavioral science to the places where it matters most — ultra-privileged families navigating generational transitions, independent school boards recruiting and governing with precision, and executive teams trying to understand why their smartest people keep getting in their own way.

The Rothschilds called it Richesse Oblige — "one must live up to one's fortune." In Kevin's experience, the families who live it longest are the ones who understand their people as deeply as they understand their portfolios.

Blind Spots of Wealth is the book that grew out of three decades of watching what actually happens inside ultra-privileged families when the money outlasts the wisdom.