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Join the Tsotsorkov family’s journey over the decades, from its entrepreneurial roots going back 250 years to its modern-day enterprise. Gen 2 family leader, Dimitar Tsotsorkov, shares the story of, and learnings from, the family’s recent efforts to capture and codify the unique values that have shaped the enterprise family and its ecosystem throug...

Once the family enterprise is clear on which values it aims to preserve, the next step is to integrate and execute those values in an intentional way. Enter: The B Corps. Certified B Corporations are leaders in the global movement for an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy. Join this session to learn how one family office achieved B Corp...

Role definition and preparation is a common challenge for families looking to integrate rising family members into the enterprise. Solving this challenge leads to higher rising gen participation and increased in-law engagement within the family. Using competency-based assessments, families can predict the success of family members in specific roles...

Join FOX for a moderated keynote with internationally recognized author and consultant, Dr. Jim Grubman. The session will explore an exciting trend and share examples of families that are taking a more positive approach to family leadership transitions, preparing the rising generation, and keeping the family engaged and cohesive. Jim Grubman, Fa...

At its core, a mission statement serves as a compass, continually steering an organization or business toward their goals. For the families who undertake the process of creating a mission statement, it provides a similar and essential navigational tool. To be successful, however, the mission statement must resonate and mean something to everyone in...

Without the usual financial pressures of family wealth, how do you teach your children about money, work, and personal responsibility? Because the stakes are high at this point in your family journey, this article by NEPC recommends starting with the family fundamentals and a sense of purpose for the wealth. It further outlines a reliable 1-2-3 str...

The past year challenged families to react to adverse trends to protect their enterprise and build capabilities to achieve their vision. The journey from uncertainty to impact requires an elevated enterprise mindset and determination to persevere throughout the four-stage evolution to position the family enterprise for long-term success and positiv...

This breakout session will expand on the methods introduced earlier, sharing specific tools and techniques that can help families get ‘unstuck’ and move their enterprises forward. The authors of Build an Enterprise Family to Last: Proven Strategies to Thrive Across Generations will highlight milestones that have helped families explain co...

FOX founder Sara Hamilton, together with Margaret Vaughan Cox, will describe what a complex enterprise family looks like and share a new framework, detailed in their recently published book, Build an Enterprise Family to Last: Proven Strategies to Thrive Across Generations, that distinguishes the Family Journey, the Enterprise Journey, an...

The future will bring transformative changes to families, their enterprises, family offices, and wealth advisors. Transformation will be structural, philosophical and cultural, resulting in a paradigm shift that better balances managing the family’s financial capital and nurturing its other capitals—especially the well-being of its members. &nbs...

Family wealth preservation is not guaranteed simply by effectively managing a family’s wealth. The most successful multigenerational families all share five key attributes. FOX Foresight keeps you up to date on our latest thinking about matters affecting Enterprise Families. It gives you our forward look on what we're learning from our members a...

From a global crisis triggering a family’s restructuring, to an entrepreneur-turned-global-investor’s commitment to change the world, six case studies demonstrate how some international champion enterprise families are assessing their threats and opportunities, reinventing themselves, and delivering the full potential of family capital to realize t...

The concept of impact isn’t new, and in recent years has been discussed considerably from an investment and philanthropic perspective. But at FOX we believe “impact” can have a broader meaning, based on how each unique family defines it. While that can vary widely, the families themselves are similar in their ability to think strategically, embrace...

Enterprise families are unique because they share ownership and stewardship of more than just family businesses. In addition to co-owning operating companies, they are the guardians of family legacy, family trusts, shared philanthropy, and joint properties. As leadership moves from founders to siblings to cousins and family priorities change, the d...

Leading and sustaining an enterprise family that shares the ownership and stewardship of collective family assets can be challenging in the face of growing complexity and diversity. Fortunately, there is a path forward for families to ensure they thrive across multiple generations. Where To Begin Co-authors Sara Hamilton...