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Carl Robinson, Ph.D., Managing Partner, Vantage Leadership Consulting In a family enterprise, the greatest challenge is to engage family members effectively in leadership roles and governing board participation. The development of future leaders in the family is critical to its future, and the leaders' participation in family governance is...

Families often complain about the challenge of getting siblings and cousins more engaged in business and family activities. There is a great divide between the “make it happen” people and the “watch it happen” people in the family, and a risk of burnout for the family members who are providing the leadership. Hea...

Despite the continuing concern over job creation, researchers around the globe identify a lack of available skilled talent as a continuing drag on performance. Inherent in this issue are three profound questions: How do you achieve a successful combination of culture and talent to allow ideas to thrive within the context of the family and family of...

Families often complain about the challenge of getting siblings and cousins more engaged in business and family activities. There is a great divide between the “make it happen” people and the “watch it happen” people in the family, and a risk of burnout for the family members who are providing the leadership. Hea...

Families often complain about the challenge of getting siblings and cousins more engaged in business and family activities. There is a great divide between the “make it happen” people and the “watch it happen” people in the family, and a risk of burnout for the family members who are providing the leadership. Hea...

Walnut Ridge Strategic Management Co. just completed an internal controls audit. Lou Colella and his advisor, Chris Cutrara of Plante Moran provided an in-depth look at their audit experience, including how they identified resources, implementation, and the end results.The biggest issues identified in this case study included: lack of cash controls...

Craig Cook of Oakbrook Solutions and Mark Rogozinski of RockIT looked at how progress is impacting back-office operations in the areas of strategy, standardization, reporting and cloud technology as well as the trends that are uppermost in the minds of family office executives.Key takeaways include:Compliance/reporting a top challenge for family of...

Social engineering is the term security experts use to describe fraud campaigns that target human rather than technology elements. This brand of fraud has grown increasingly pervasive in recent years. In fact, with technology-based security programs becoming more sophisticated, more criminals are turning to social engineering. Tristate President Ch...

Throughout the United States and across the world today, high-net worth executives and individuals are confronting new levels of risk – from the continuity of their operations and the protection of their assets to the safety of their most valuable resource, their people. This personal security expert addresses the risks families face and outl...

When disaster interrupts your place of business, what contingency plans do you have in place to continue operations? HUB International Vice President and Senior Risk Consultant Mike Dubose outlined how to develop a business continuity plan that will minimize negative impacts to your family office, drawing on the example of family offices impacted b...

Family and multi-family office executives often ask us for human resources best practices. Our panel of family office human resources professionals will share their perspectives on lessons learned, best practices adopted and legal parameters to be considered in managing employee relationships and the human resource function in the office.