Join us online for a casual chat with other Next Gen members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time.
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Our FEC Family Community: Together at Home Enjoy Social Distancing with Distant Socializing! Join us online for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Your FEC Community is here to support, encourage and engage. We’ll take this time together to discuss what’s most important to you, share your insights and what’s on your mind. Stay connected, lean in and we will weather this storm together!! And, always…
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The current pandemic has given rise to a wave of emotions that many of us have little experience of dealing with and often do not even know what they are. To help us better understand what me may be feeling and how to manage our feelings as well as help others, we are delighted to sit down with Dawn Schooler, counsellor, coach, teacher and FEA who will provide insights on grief: what it is, how it shows up and offer…
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Our FEC Family Community: Together at Home Enjoy Social Distancing with Distant Socializing! Join us online for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Your FEC Community is here to support, encourage and engage. We’ll take this time together to discuss what’s most important to you, share your insights and what’s on your mind. Stay connected, lean in and we will weather this storm together!! And, always remember, YOU are…
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Our FEC Family Community: Together at Home Enjoy Social Distancing with Distant Socializing! Join us online at 3:00PM EDT for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Your FEC Community is here to support, encourage and engage. We’ll take this time together to discuss what’s most important to you, share your insights and what’s on your mind. Stay connected, lean in and we will weather this storm…
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In Conversation with Kim Schneider Malek The Hidden Assets of Uncertainty: A Family Enterprise Opportunity June 25 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT If we have learned anything during the past few months it is that the only certainty is uncertainty. So how might our enterprising families and our family enterprise clients strategically leverage the certainty of uncertainty? Join FEX in a virtual conversation with Kim Schneider Malek, Founder of Family Enterprise Alliance, moderated by Ruth Steverlynck, FEA, Questions…
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In conversation with Dennis Jaffe. The Multi Generational Advisor: What do Families Look For? July 16th @ 1:00PM - 2:00PM EDT Join FEX in a virtual conversation with Dennis Jaffe who is a globally renowned advisor to family enterprises with a desire for multi generational endurance. In his most recent book Borrowed from Your Grandchildren, Dennis shares his findings from interviews with over 100 global families who have curtailed the shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves proverb and are flourishing 100 years on.…
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Our FEC Family Community: Together at Home Enjoy Social Distancing with Distant Socializing! Join us online for a casual chat with other Next Gen family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Our topic today will center around Leadership. Your FEC Community is here to support, encourage and engage. We’ll take this time together to discuss what’s most important to you, share your insights and what’s on your mind. Stay connected, lean…
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Our FEC Family Community: Together at Home Topic: After COVID-19, will you keep working remotely or go back to “normal” office hours? Enjoy Social Distancing with Distant Socializing! Join us online at 3:00PM EDT for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Your FEC Community is here to support, encourage and engage. We’ll take this time together to discuss what’s most important to you, share your insights…
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Our FEC Family Community: Together at Home Topic: Getting back to business! Enjoy Social Distancing with Distant Socializing! Have you pivoted during the pandemic? Have you been closed for an extended period of time? Was everyone working remote in your company? Come and share what you have learnt and where you are planning to go as this “New Normal” starts to become a reality. Join us virtually for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with…
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Among the most important challenges that family business stakeholders will face is managing the unique conflict that impacts family enterprise. Join FEC in a virtual conversation with Blair Trippe, Managing Partner of Continuity Family Business Consulting and Wendy Sage-Hayward, MA, FEA, in which we will discuss how to approach both active conflict—when families fight—and passive conflict—when families get stuck, unable to make important decisions in a timely manner. Participants will leave understanding why conflicts in families that own and manage…
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Enjoy Social Distancing with Distant Socializing! Topic: We will be discussing active and inactive family engagement within the business and how to keep equity and harmony within the family. Join us online for a casual chat with other Next Gen family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Your FEC Community is here to support, encourage and engage. We’ll take this time together to discuss what’s most important to you, share your…
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For the first time, we are hosting the Family Enterprise of the Year Award (FEYA) celebrations virtually! We invite you to join us as we honour and celebrate the family enterprise community. This year, tune in online to hear from, be inspired by and learn first-hand from a resilient family business about their unique journeys and why Family Enterprise is more important than ever today, both within your community and beyond. Established in 1986, the Family Enterprise of the Year…
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This year we are excited to host the Central Ontario Family Enterprise of the Year Award (FEYA) celebrations virtually! We invite you to join us as we honour and celebrate the family enterprise community and our two finalist -Burnbrae Farms and Newcom Media Inc. Learn more about them below. Established in 1986, this award is given annually by FEC to recognize, celebrate, and promote the achievements of Canadian family businesses and the considerable contribution they make to both their local…
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For the first time, we are hosting the Family Enterprise of the Year Award (FEYA) celebrations virtually! We invite you to join us as we honour and celebrate the family enterprise community. This year, tune in online to hear from, be inspired by and learn first-hand from resilient family businesses about their unique journeys and why Family Enterprise is more important than ever today, both within your community and beyond. Established in 1986, the Family Enterprise of the Year Award…
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This time of challenge and change is also a powerful learning opportunity for family enterprises and their leaders. Join FEX, WATSON and our family enterprise panelists as we learn from the experiences of family enterprise leaders, the findings from the Family Business Pulse Survey, and emerging insight into what has helped leaders and businesses survive and thrive. We’re looking forward to a conversation with our panelists and with you - positioning family enterprise to strengthen as we move forward. We’ll…
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With family members and employees being sent home to isolate for minor symptoms how do you support your family and business? During our discussion we will discuss how to maintain professionalism/work structure and still be a supportive employer during this time. (How to keep your “Family” culture and manage these unusual times). Join us online for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Your FEC Community is…
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More family businesses and wealth are held in trust than ever before. Yet, despite the best efforts of advisors, trusts often fail to reach their full potential after the ink dries. It doesn’t have to be this way. In this conversation and open Q&A, Ruth Steverlynck, FEA, will interview trust expert Patricia Angus, author of The Trustee Primer and The Beneficiary Primer (forthcoming) about how advisors and families can make the most of their trusts. It goes beyond technicalities into…
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Enjoy Social Distancing with Distant Socializing! Topic: Preparing for Success during turbulent times - A fire side chat and strategies to move forward in 2021 with special guest Gary Berman, President & Founder of BERMANFALK Hospitality Group. Gary will be sharing stories of his journey through other economic crisis’. Gary will also provide tips, strategies and concepts to think about for strategic planning to come back stronger in 2021 during these unprecedented time of a global pandemic. Join us online…
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Join us virtually, November 20-21, 2020. Expect the same thought-provoking content and interactive discussions, yet via online videoconferencing. Download the Program at a Glance. Learn more
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Join us online for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. Building Strategies to Overcome Challenges: Tips and Tools to Identify Opportunities, Communicate Effectively and Relieve Stress will focus on building resiliency and adapting in the face of adversity & stress by identifying business opportunities (rooted in unique family advantages / values / strengths and communicating effectively) with family members during a time of crisis. Your…
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Join us online for a casual chat with other family business members about what’s happening with your family and family enterprise during this unprecedented time. This meet-ups conversation will be around bringing the resolutions you need peer support on in 2021. Your FEC Community is here to support, encourage and engage. We’ll take this time together to discuss what’s most important to you, share your insights and what’s on your mind. Stay connected, lean in and we will weather this…
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During the past year, we have all experienced a lot of turbulence — and there’s more ahead. As family business owners plan for the future, they’re having to be more flexible and consider multiple business scenarios. Join us on February 9th for our next panel with Julius Frohlich and Chris Massie where we will hear how far they are looking out and what they're doing differently during their planning as they try to navigate uncertainty. What are some of the…
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