Family Enterprise Leadership Series
Business Family Leadership in Times of Change
March 14, 2023 @ 11:30AM-1:00PM MST (Online)
Presenter: Kevin Erickson, Leadershyft
This workshop introduces a the Leadershyft Model of leadership, developed by Kevin to build healthy organizations where stress and anxiety are reduced while revenue and profits grow. He will demonstrate how key considerations of family dynamics shed light on the components of this model that are often neglected in family-led businesses, and will help you find a path to spending less time in operations while increasing your confidence in the long-term success your family business.
Family Employment Issues & Tools
April 11, 2023 @ 11:30AM-1:00PM MST (Online)
Presenter: Gregg Becker, Predictable Futures Inc.
Develop tools to understand how healthy family employment practices can add value to the business and reduce the risk of conflict in the business and the family. In this session, participants will set an intention to address areas of concern when they return to their business and families.
Consider Your Quest: Systems Thinking for Family Business
May 16, 2023 @ 11:30AM-1:00PM MST (Online)
Presenters: Derek Hudson & Ann MacTaggart, Unconstrained
As the leader of your family business, you’ll find where your business is stuck by answering these questions: What is hard about your business? What are you doing about it? Where are you stuck? Why? What will it take to get your team to help get unstuck? And who else can help you with this? Participants will answer these questions using the Essential Dynamics framework to help them understand how they can get unstuck and move forward.
Business Family Breakfast: Women in Family Leadership
June 6, 2023 @ 8:00AM-10:00AM MST
In Person - Tickets $25.00 each
+ Live Stream
Panellists: Sarah Baptiste, CEO & President, ArrKann Trailer & RV; Tina Naqvi-Rota, CEO, Cameron Corporation; Jillene Lakevold, Co-CEO, All Weather WindowsModerator: Lesley Williams, Board Chair, Park Paving & ABFI Advisory Board Member
Connect with the business family community over breakfast and gain insights into the experiences of accomplished women in family business leadership roles through a moderated panel discussion and Q&A.
Family Enterprise Canada members receive free registration for the in-person event. Contact abfi@ualberta.ca for details.
To participate in the live-stream only at no cost, contact abfi@ualberta.ca.
High-Performing Boards & How Boards Add Value to Family Enterprises
June 20, 2023 @ 11:30AM-1:00PM MST (Online)
Presenter: Darren Rawson, Ozone Advisory Group Inc.
This highly interactive session will explore how to optimize family-enterprise boards by challenging traditional assumptions on what a board is, how a board adds value, and the attributes of a high-performing board. The session will engage participants in a conversation on how a high-performing board can add significant value to any enterprise, in particular family-enterprises.
NextGen in Family Leadership
September 12, 2023 @ 8:00AM-10:00AM MST
In Person - Tickets $25.00 each
Location TBA+ Live Stream
Panellists: TBAModerator: TBA
Connect with the business family community over breakfast and engage with business family professionals to consider the challenges and opportunities ofintergenerational business transitions through a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A.
Family Enterprise Canada members receive free registration for the in-person event. Contact abfi@ualberta.ca for details.
To participate in the live-stream only at no cost, contact abfi@ualberta.ca.
Family Governance & Why Many Families Struggle to Get this Important Work Done
September 19, 2023 @ 11:30AM-1:00PM MST (Online)
Presenters: Dr. Moira Somers & Patrick O'Connor, Blackwood Family Enterprise Services
Through this session you will learn about what Family Governance really is and be introduced to the tools most often used to help families. The session will focus on the key family governance tools that are used to help an enterprising family position themselves for success. You will learn about why it is that our brains will often resist this type of work and then how you can overcome some of this resistance.
The Dark Side of Family Values
October 10, 2023 @ 11:30AM-1:00PM MST (Online)
Presenter: Gregg Becker, Predictable Futures Inc.
Participants will come to understand how family values can create conflict in the business and the family, and create value inside the business when used properly. They will be provided with tools to help see where their values are the same in the family and business, and where they differ. The tools will help them identify conflict areas and risk areas that need to be addressed in their context – family and business.
Family Enterprise Structure: Creating & Maximizing Your Family Vision, Mission, & Values
November 14, 2023 @ 11:30AM-1:00PM MST (Online)
Presenters: David Blom & Patrick O'Connor, Blackwood Family Enterprise Services
In this session you will engage with interesting and compelling data around profitability and other key business metrics that will help make the case for why families should create their Family Vision, Mission, and Values and how these key family enterprise structures experience better financial results than other family business.
Canadian Western Bank Panel Discussion
November 28, 2023 @ 8:00AM-10:00AM MST
In Person - Tickets $25.00 each
Location TBA+ Live Stream
Panellists: TBAModerator: TBA
Family Enterprise Canada members receive free registration for the in-person event. Contact abfi@ualberta.ca for details.
To participate in the live-stream only at no cost, contact abfi@ualberta.ca.
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