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“Culture eats strategy for lunch” is a well-known adage that describes how vital an effective culture is to any organization’s success. A family’s culture, not unlike an organization’s, is fluid and everchanging, shaped by shared values, beliefs, assumptions, and behaviors. This interactive learning experience will help family leaders and change agents understand the complexities of culture, and the connection to performance improvement in a rapidly changing environment.

Whether planning for the original family business or new businesses, the family foundation, family investing, or family real estate, being entrepreneurial and confident in your family enterprise approach is a key to success. This session is for families with passionate self-starters who have the desire to be fearless and resilient in their family enterprise work.Ann Dugan, Senior Managing Director, Advisory & Education Services, Family Office ExchangeBrock Elmore, CEO and Co-Founder, Consilient

Knowing more about future opportunities and unexpected risks can have a dramatic and positive impact on the health of the enterprise. Families will use a creative process to analyze alternatives and uncertainties that may challenge the family in their strategic planning. This workshop explains key concepts related to identifying driving forces and uncertainties, and introduces a systematic way to prioritize future opportunities and risks.

This interactive session will simulate real-world situations where investors of all ages navigate investing a new pool of capital. The speakers will help attendees define an investment philosophy by exploring: Return vs. Risk, Concentration vs. Diversification, Strategic vs. Tactical Allocation, and Passive vs. Active Management. Working in small groups, each team will define their investment philosophy around the above topics, state their general investment outlook, and report their portfolio allocation to the larger group.

Purpose-driven leaders tap into what really motivates both themselves and others, and as a result they inspire their teams to achieve extraordinary results. Leading with purpose is particularly important to millennials and rising generation leaders. We’ll talk about the purpose economy, and participants will have an opportunity to discover their own Purpose ProfileTM using an online assessment.

The Rising Generation has been called “The Generation of Impact,” as we operate not only with a value-centric mindset but are insistent upon contributing to and seeing change. But how do we influence family leadership to think differently, and give us a seat at the table? In this interactive discussion, we will hear stories from peers who have been successful and explore how we can influence to make an impact.

Since the end of the Global Financial Crisis, abundant Central Bank liquidity has created a global rising tide for financial assets. Stocks, bonds, and real estate have been locked into a relentless, low volatility “melt-up” in valuation over the past nine years, culminating in the extraordinarily low volatility of 2017. This year has ushered in a new volatility regime as global Central Banks move toward a more restrictive monetary policy framework.