“Family businesses must focus on long-term resilience, preparing the next generation. That’s a different time horizon than quarterly earnings.” Matt Allen

The amount of information available to business families on governance continues to grow. Despite increased information, families struggle to...

Each family business springs forth from a cultural tradition that expresses the values, thinking, and behaviors of its homeland. In recent decades, affluent business families also encounter outside cultures as they travel, establish international residences, and especially, send children to other...

Smartly designed governance is often one of the greatest determinants of success when companies are faced with big decisions and challenging opportunities.

Join us for an exclusive opportunity to focus on building your own high-performing Family Business Board. We will do a deep dive into the mo...

Engaging owners and future owners, especially those not in the business, is critical for business families. Unfortunately, it is one of the hardest things to get right, but Ben Francois can take it from here.

Join us for an informational session with Ben Francois, Partner at Banyan Global Family...

Times are changing. That means business enterprises are adapting. How will you evolve your business and ensure it flourishes into a lasting family business?

Join us in this session as we share cutting-edge research with family business leaders regarding recent trends shaping future work environ...

Dividends play an important role in rewarding shareholders but must be viewed in the broader context of the shareholders’ various needs and the business’s overall capital requirements.

In this session, we will discuss the journey of setting your family business dividend policy as the business e...

Event Champion, Mark Louccheim (YPO Gold Los Angeles) and Incoming Global Family Business Network Chair Rebecca Polan (YPO Mountain State WV) discuss why members and their families should attend the Network’s annual Family Business Retreat.

Phantom stock is a way for family businesses to provide long term incentive compensation to non-family executive employees, thereby enhancing their ability to compete for talent without giving away equity. This discussion will focus on compensation mechanisms within businesses to attract, retain,...

Family businesses increasingly face challenges that incite costly rifts, divides, and disconnects. Technology, leadership styles, geographic dispersion, politics, religion, successor choice, pre-nuptial agreements, differing values, and varied mental health philosophies are just some of the preci...

We strive to give our children all that they want and need to live a productive and fulfilling life. When we’re gone, what will they treasure most from us? Our things? Or our words, our blessings, our guidance, our life lessons, our legacy, our love?

Steve Leder, the best-selling author of “Fo...

One of the most critical questions facing family businesses is how to treat the next generation. They are clearly different from other employees, as current or potential owners of the company, whose wealth and reputation are on the line. On the flip side, most parents rightfully worry that provid...

What is a family office? Do you need one? How do you determine which type of family office (embedded, single-family, multifamily, virtual) is right for you and what range of services you need?
In this session, you will learn:

What is a family office is and why or why not to have one
A frame...

Each year, YPO’s single-family office symposium typically meets in person each fall but, they have developed a virtual interactive series that delivers innovative thinking and actionable strategies, enabling attendees to reach a higher level of accomplishment based on the family office model.

Li...

The family office is an international enterprise, with many YPO families operating cross-border. This session will delve into the intricacies of working through multiple jurisdictions and cultures, the attendant legal considerations and solutions for families and their service providers to keep i...

Private equity has integrated itself into the fabric of the global economy, riding a near decade long run of unprecedented performance. Family offices have bet big during private equity’s ascent, allocating increasingly larger portions of their portfolios to PE. With few exceptions family offices...

In a recent survey conducted by Wilmington Trust, 47 percent of business owners over the age of 65 do not have a transition plan in place. That's a surprising number, especially when it concerns family businesses that have been nurtured through successive generations.

Listen in to hear Barb Dar...

Family businesses are complex entities where the roles of the family, management and ownership can be easily confused. Family governance provides a forum for constructive discussion, problem solving and making decisions about the family as it relates to the business, as well as how the business r...

Many enterprising families have discovered the immense value of conducting an annual family meeting, involving all family members from those actively involved in running the business to inactive shareholders.

To sustain over the long run, a family enterprise must aim at family succession and engage in healthy multi-generational collaboration. The resulting structure and dynamics generate unique possibilities for success, but also sources of conflict and disagreement. Radd Riebe, Managing Director at S...

The Global Family Business Network aims to curate, produce and promote best-in-class programming resourced from the global peer, professional and academic family business community for YPO members, chapters and networks who are interested in multi-generational family enterprise continuity.

Hear inspiring real-world stories from three generations of YPO family business leaders and their families in this interactive webinar. Guests John Ness (YPO Columbus), Jennifer Sims (YPO Southern 7), Chris Nelson (YPO Jersey Integrated) and Kimberly Nelson (Europe One Integrated) will share insi...

The top 40 family businesses in China and Hong Kong jointly generated close to USD500 billion of revenue and created over USD 1.8 million of employment in 2018. There is also a growing investment interest in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an economic powerhouse projected to r...

TRANSITION FROM FAMILY RUN TO PROFESSIONALLY RUN
Can a family business prosper without a family member at the helm? If you are considering the transition, learn how to revitalize your family business by working with professional management.
Join the Global Family Business Network and Jonathan Cry...

Statistics suggest that the high rate of family business failures in the transition process is less a factor of a poor business plan and more a function of conflict among the family stakeholders. Building a lasting family legacy through your business relies less on ”the business of the business” ...