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How do you prepare next generation teens, and young adults to be responsible wealth owners? What meaningful activities can you organize to provide the training they need for their future roles as family leaders on the family council or governing board? A well planned education and communication plan for the rising...

Branding isn’t limited to marketing a product, service, or business. Articulating a personal brand – a statement about who you are and what you have to offer – is a powerful way to direct your career development and control how you are perceived within your family. This interactive session will g...

Whether your goal is financial literacy, personal growth, or preparing for transition into leadership, having a clear plan to gain the skills, knowledge, and experience you need is essential. Understand components of an effective plan to help align your learning with your values, goals, and ambitions.

Navigating family dynamics can be challenging in any family, however, add the complexity of significant wealth or business ownership and those challenges can amplify. As a Rising Gen, knowing how to initiate and manage difficult conversations around substantive family issues such as conflict, succession, and engaging the next generation c...

Please join us for our third FOX Rising Gen Forum on May 5-6, 2019. This community was created to help connect like-minded peers looking for an opportunity to learn, share experiences, and develop skills as leaders within your families.Our Spring event offers next generation family members a place to connect and build community with like-minde...

In this highly interactive and engaging professional development session, we will focus on communication and interpersonal skills that can be utilized to raise our self-awareness around behaviors and personality. By exploring these key skills, we will gain an understanding of how to better connect and interact with colleagues and clients.

Leading family learning educators will each share 2-3 techniques that have been successful in supporting the unique learning objectives of some of their families. Explore which ones might resonate for you whether you are new at developing an educational curriculum or an experienced family that wants to go deeper. Time will be available for interact...

While we are accustomed to quarterly family meetings, monthly portfolio reviews, and annual family philanthropy gatherings, the environment in which families are learning is changing rapidly. At the same time, families are increasingly in search of more engaging learning opportunities for families. Families are seeking to inspire future wealth owne...

All families have drama. However, in complex family and family-business environments, the toxic residue the drama leaves can’t easily be tolerated. Fortunately, we know the antidote: conscious, trust-based leadership. In this session, Jim Dethmer, advisor and co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, will facilitate an int...

Successful business-owning families know that a set of timely decisions is required to continually prepare and grow the family-operating companies. For the long-term success of the family, timely and thoughtful exploration of future planning for self and family is also required, but often overlooked. This session presents ideas and best practices f...

In Skin in the Game, a proposed TV show with a format similar to Shark Tank, the audience effectively runs the game, deciding which businesses get funded. Audience members also have the option to invest their own capital in the Skin in the Game fund. More than fun and games, it was designed with projections for job creation and ...

Family businesses transitioning from the owner-manager stage to a larger and more diverse family ownership group often lack the practices necessary to assure owner alignment and avoid conflict. Many times, owner groups are perched on the lip of what we call the “conflict spiral,” ready to descend into fractured communication and hostile...

Many FOX members have come to realize that effective education programs don’t just happen, they are creatively designed with specific outcomes in mind. Come to this session to hear from several chief learning officers who are positively impacting their families by designing engaging experiential programs for each generation. Program overviews and l...

This is a segment from the 2017 FOX Fall Forum seminar, Family Learning Programs: Designing for Engagement You can view the full video of the seminar, or explore more clips from it here:FOX Learning Center VisionSara Hamilton, Founder & CEO, Family Office ExchangeGroup Exercise on Family Readiness and Benefits of LearningKim Schn...