Upcoming Sessions
Content Overview
All sessions take a distinctively international and interactive approach, reflecting the cosmopolitan make-up of the participants and leveraging their rich experience. Over three and a half days, you will cover the following topics using a wide variety of stimulating learning materials developed specifically for the programme at INSEAD. Most sessions are anchored in a real-life case study from a family business.
Introduction to Family Enterprises
Typical strengths and challenges of Family Businesses
Transmission dynamics
- The importance of founders: creation and legacy
- Multi-generational enterprises and their specific issues
- Questions from the “wise”, “now” and “next” generations
Family Goals and sustainability
- Family history and values
- Family assets, vision and mission
- Social and environmental impact
Family and Business Governance
- Roles in the Family Enterprise
- Board of Directors, Owners’ Council, Family Council
- Family Charter, Ownership Agreements
People and relationships
- Communication and Fair Process
- Family Human Resources and personal development
In-Programme family meetings
- Takeaways from cases and discussions
- Our strengths, challenges and questions
- Building our family action-plan
Optional after the programme
For those who wish, the programme offers a one hour coaching session with a faculty member to help embed the learning.
