“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...