Robust governance practices form the cornerstone of success for the family wealth enterprise, and ongoing succession planning is one element of a mature governance system. As family considers its future succession, it is vital to understand why a well-conceived plan is so important and what the critical elements of the plan entail. Here, we outline five critical steps, techniques, and considerations for your succession planning. By taking this proactive approach, you can better position your family for continued success and safeguard your family legacy for generations to come.
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For business and wealth creators, preserving the family in the midst of wealth is far more difficult than creating the wealth. Integrating second and third generations into ownership and decision-making is something business builders haven’t yet experienced. We focus on 14 strategies families can use to integrate rising generations and pass down responsible ownership and governance.
Generating positive impact has emerged as a key trend within the Family and Wealth Management space. Investors, families, and society show growing interest in measuring the effects of their actions—and non-actions— with an emphasis on the impact of their investments. We explore current views and provide practical ways families can move forward to become empowered stakeholders.
2025 FOX Foresight: A Difficult Transition: Proactive Planning and Support for Aging Principals
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We’ll examine how to successfully navigate the challenges that arise with the aging and cognitive decline of a family member and/or board member from the perspective of the family office. Aging experts emphasize several strategies for identifying cognitive impairment and ensuring early detection, along with resources and approaches for handling these sensitive and often stressful situations.
How to Choose a Family Enterprise Advisor
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When evaluating Family Enterprise Advisors, you need to feel confident in the advisor’s competency, objectivity, and responsiveness to your needs. Giving someone access to the most significant parts of your life can be challenging, which is why following four key tips will help with your advisor selection and choose a trustworthy advisor you can rely on to get the results you need.
The Why, What, and How of Family Governance
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Defining a family enterprise’s governance structures is a journey, not a destination. In this webcast Stephanie Traversy, Vice President of Personal Development and Governance at Bridgegreen Capital, will unpack four critical milestones along the path to purposeful governance. She’ll cover why families need to establish their higher purpose and long-range vision, what purposeful activities will drive that vision forward, and how to build the structures, agreements, policies and plans appropriate to the family’s needs.
Industry Rising Leaders Panel I 2024 Family Forum
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This dynamic panel will bring together those making new or significant contributions to the enterprise family space and the family office industry, to discuss their visions for the future and the evolving landscape of our field. These professionals will discuss how they redefined traditional practices, integrated innovative strategies, and wrestled with the unique challenges faced while rising into leadership positions.
Build an Enterprise to Last I 2024 Family Forum
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FOX founder Sara Hamilton, together with Margaret Vaughan Cox, will describe what a complex enterprise family looks like and share a new framework, detailed in their recently published book, Build an Enterprise Family to Last: Proven Strategies to Thrive Across Generations, that distinguishes the Family Journey, the Enterprise Journey, and the Personal Journey. Their methodology and milestones allow each family to explore where they are today, where they want to go in the future, and how they plan to get there.
The Enterprise Family Journey: Proven Strategies to Align Family Goals Across Generations I 2024 Family Forum
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This breakout session will expand on the methods introduced earlier, sharing specific tools and techniques that can help families get ‘unstuck’ and move their enterprises forward. The authors of Build an Enterprise Family to Last: Proven Strategies to Thrive Across Generations will highlight milestones that have helped families explain complex topics and collaboratively build future plans. Insights from the Enterprise Family workshop will be discussed, and attendees will receive copies of the new guidebook containing 48 milestones with visual descriptions
The pay levels for board directors have been increasing as the board members’ responsibilities grow with the need to fully understand and navigate the challenges arising from a variety of areas including geopolitical risk, regulatory complexities, macroeconomic shock, climate/environmental challenges, and technology advancements.