Architect, designer, thought leader, and author William McDonough practices green architecture on a massive scale. In a 20-year project he is redesigning Ford's city-sized River Rouge truck plant and turning it into the Rust Belt's eco-poster child with the world's largest "living roof" for reclaiming storm runoff. He has created buildings that produce more energy and clean water than they use and as such is building the next generation of design on the site of the future of exploration: the NASA Sustainability Base.
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Statistically, every day 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65, a phenomena that will occur daily until 2029. And, according to the Small Business Administration, half of small business owners are currently over age 50. As a result, waves of small businesses will be sold or transitioned. When you couple these statistics with the emergent megatrend defining the wave of wealth transfer that will occur within the next two decades…it is time to formalize your comprehensive business succession plan.
Sara Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of Family Office Exchange (FOX), the definitive source of information and best practices associated with the business of managing the family enterprise and the family’s wealth across generations. The strength of the FOX network is derived from the collective knowledge and experience of over 460 globally-minded family enterprises based in 20 countries. Sara's opening remarks for the 2015 FOX Fall Forum includes the introduction of strategies to enhance owner engagement.
Entrepreneurs assemble resources, create innovations, develop finance strategies and apply business acumen in an effort to create economic goods and services. The ultimate question is, “How do you instill these attributes in your rising generation?” Ann Dugan, who founded the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, leads an exploration on how to create an entrepreneurial spirit in the rising generation.
In an effort to promote a culture of greater giving and well-being for all, Nexus Global Youth shines light on the experience and impact of having wealth and what can be done to support and inspire the next generation of philanthropic leaders. Given the unique nature of the generation and their experiences, Nexus research proposes that, instead of focusing on the technicalities of philanthropy, focusing on the relationships and emotional development behind philanthropy is the most effective and beneficial approach to promote generosity.
The movement of money into investments that create environmental and social change is gaining momentum, yet the perception that impact investing goes hand in hand with sub-market financial returns has hampered the wider adoption of this promising approach to investing in positive change.
A critical element of Family Office Exchange’s work is to identify trends and issues that have immediate and future impact on families of wealth. As such, Alexandre Monnier is pleased to share the trends emerging in the family wealth industry and how these trends will impact families today and well into the future, what families will need to do to prepare for these inevitabilities, and how these trends link to the client experience mindset.
Family Office Exchange has been leading the charge to examine essential elements of the client experience and the influence these elements have on today’s families as well as families of the future. Key to this assessment is defining what family office executives, advisors with whom families will engage, and of course families themselves need to do to more effectively meet the unique and emerging needs of enterprising families.
Family success over generations is often contingent on the health and vibrancy of family culture. Family culture can destroy legacy, decimate planning, and wreak havoc on even the best laid plans of founders, professionals and family leaders. This session helps to bring clarity to the confusing dynamics of family culture and, more importantly, provide strategies and techniques used to make adaptive cultural shifts.
More than 58 million Americans use social networking sites several times per day. Social media has created a new sense of reality—a reality that its benefits have outweighed the risks. Liability risks involved with the use of social media include defamation, invasion of privacy and negligence. This session provides awareness into the risks as well as the solutions to minimize the evolving dangers of social media.