Through a collaboration with a family office and outside partners, hear one family’s approach to encouraging the rising generation to find their voice in the family enterprise. Learn from a Family Office COO how to design and steward a rising generation program with family input and the support of external consultants. Together, the group discusses their work with the family, the elements that worked well, the foundation for building a successful rising generation program, and developing and cultivating future family leaders.
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FOX has recently taken a closer look at the various types of capital available to families and the offices that serve them. One category not yet discussed at our forums is TIME CAPITAL. Given the limited nature of time, it is essential to allocate, invest, spend, and cherish the time we have.
How can emerging AI programs and workplace tools create opportunities for progress and growth without creating a culture of fear and avoidance within your organization? We’ll begin the session with a moderated interview featuring industry expert Alex Wissner-Gross to lay the groundwork for understanding AI’s influence on family enterprises. This sets the stage for an interactive leadership development session facilitated by FOX’s Kent Lawson and Jeff Strese.
FOX has identified the cultivation of Human Capital as a key element of multi-generational success for business-owning families and other Family Offices that are focused on continuity, succession, and continual growth of family assets. The Frisbie Group in Palm Beach was originally founded by three brothers investing in a single rental property in Boston, Massachusetts while in college. It has since grown to involve nearly a dozen family members working side by side with external employees to focus on transformational residential and community development projects.
Families tend to focus on the technical elements when planning wealth transfer, including management of their investments and estate planning. However, to build a long-term foundation for success, it's just as critical to strategically prepare the people in a family. Come to this interactive discussion to learn realistic best practices for strengthening the 'people-side' of your Family Office planning, including communication, education, and preparation- for future roles.
For the past 3 decades, the private wealth industry has been heavily focused on, and dominated by, highly technical disciplines, such as investment management, tax and accounting, and trust and estate planning, with solutions primarily serving the financial capital of enterprise families and the vision of prior generations. The qualitative needs and wellbeing of future generations expected to benefit from these solutions have rarely been a focus of industry practitioners.
Preparing the rising generation for leadership can feel daunting at the beginning. It takes courage and vision to get things started. Along with understanding five key things in your preparation, advance incrementally and look for ways to use education to get family members excited about the future of the rising gen and their leadership positions in the family.
At our Family Office Exchange (FOX) Rising Gen Leadership Programs held in February and June, we noticed developing themes from our next-generation attendees. It became clear their needs and concerns were coalescing around three emergent areas. In this article we’re presenting a simple engagement pipleline to guide families and rising gen on their learning journey. This intentional approach is based on our research and the best practices of leading families.