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Family Dynamics: Effective Family Conversations
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Navigating family dynamics can be challenging in any family, however, add the complexity of significant wealth or business ownership and those challenges can amplify. As a Rising Gen, knowing how to initiate and manage difficult conversations around substantive family issues such as conflict, succession, and engaging the next generation can be a powerful tool. Join two experienced family members who have journeyed these roads themselves and on the behalf of clients to gain practical tools for having effective conversations within your own family.

Creating a Personal Learning Plan
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Whether your goal is financial literacy, personal growth, or preparing for transition into leadership, having a clear plan to gain the skills, knowledge, and experience you need is essential. Understand components of an effective plan to help align your learning with your values, goals, and ambitions.

FOX 2019 Rising Gen Forum Digital Binder (Spring)
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Please join us for our third FOX Rising Gen Forum on May 5-6, 2019. This community was created to help connect like-minded peers looking for an opportunity to learn, share experiences, and develop skills as leaders within your families.

Sparking Effective Communication and Interpersonal Skills
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In this highly interactive and engaging professional development session, we will focus on communication and interpersonal skills that can be utilized to raise our self-awareness around behaviors and personality. By exploring these key skills, we will gain an understanding of how to better connect and interact with colleagues and clients.

Breaking the Silence: The Power of Effective Family Communication
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Families blessed with significant financial resources can make an amazing and long-lasting impact on the world. But that wealth can also lead to disagreements, grudges, and hurt feelings. Trying to hide from the conflict does not make it go away. The best thing a family can do is create a culture of open, honest conversation about the impact their wealth can have, as well as the pitfalls. Communication is therefore one key factor in sustaining wealth for generations.

Coming of Age: Essential Tips for Parents with College-Bound Teens
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Moving from home to college is a rite of passage that requires a teenager to assume more responsibility for their actions and requires a parent to respect their child's budding independence. Before college-bound teens make the move, there are important factors families need to fully consider regarding their children’s personal safety, health, liability, and financial risks.

Coming of Age: How Parents Can Help College-Bound Teens Balance Independence and Safety
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College years can be an exciting time for young adults, as they get their first taste of independence and being self-sufficient. However, the responsibilities of coming-of-age also comes with significant risks. Parents can help their college-bound children by following essential tips on reducing risky driving habits, managing cyber threats, and building a healthy financial lifestyle.

Family Banks: Personal Commitment, Accountability and Multi-Generational Mentoring
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Over the past decade, matriarchs and patriarchs of successful families have been shifting their focus from their children to a broader group of individuals, such as grandchildren, siblings, and nieces. Often, they choose to create family banks, which are typically trusts that are funded to help individuals pursue entrepreneurial opportunities, venture philanthropy, and knowledge in a structured and more-likely-to-succeed manner. Family banks can be customized to fit a family’s agenda, and the risks inherent in family banks can be thoughtfully managed.

Elite Colleges, Bribery, and the Gift of Doing Less
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The headlines were hard to miss: wealthy parents and coaches indicted on federal charges in a college admissions bribery scheme. Over 50 people, parents and higher education professionals, were charged with “racketeering conspiracy”—cheating to get kids into elite universities. The case is a cautionary tale reminding us that there are consequences to breaking the law. But there is another message for parents everywhere: It is a reminder that doing more is not always the best you can give your child. Sometimes doing less is.

Family Philanthropy: Finding Your Path as a Donor
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Doug Balfour, author of Doing Good Great: An Insider’s Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Philanthropic Journey, and Pat Armstrong of the Abbot Downing Institute for Family Culture discuss best practices for engaging in philanthropic activities as a family. Both believe that while each family’s questions are unique to their individual circumstances, there are common themes and patterns associated with the exploration of the “why” of their giving as well as the evolution of their philanthropy.