“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...

YPO Live: How to KNOW When to Go? Planning a Business Exit on YOUR Terms

What’s the difference between a catastrophic failure and a successful business exit?
Your plan. Identifying the optimal exit timing and developing a post-transaction life plan are elements that take years to understand and ...

If you’re putting together a high-performing board of directors, you need to answer a few critical questions.

What exactly is the cost and effort required to develop a successful board? If you’re bringing on an independent director, how do you identify and recruit the best possible candidate? If...

Join Entrepreneur & YPO EN Vice-Chair Yosh Eisbart (YPO Gold Rocky Mountain) for an intimate fireside chat with Proprietor/Chairman & CEO of Silver Oak and Twoemy Cellars David Duncan.

Since his father co-founded Silver Oak over 50 years ago, David’s trailblazing entrepreneurship has helped scal...

Purpose and sustainable business practices are becoming a common theme among many businesses looking to make greater impact through their company. One way to achieve this is by obtaining a B Corporation Certification. We invite you to our B Corp Open Forum where you will meet Eleanor Allen, B Lab...

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...

Join Neha Gupta, Founder of College Shortcuts and Dream Life Foundation, as she teaches you how to create a knock-out admissions package that top universities will be excited to accept.

Neha Gupta has dedicated her life to helping people get into their dream school. For the last 15 years, she’s ...

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...

A provocative and insightful perspective on the way we develop our parenting skills including insights of historical and societal pressures. Before being parents, we have little idea of the responsibility, commitment and perseverance that are required. Some of the theories on parenting, and in pa...

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...