In this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner, Phelps Wood and Bill Stranberg highlight strategies for family enterprise advisors to consider when client families first bring a non-family executive into the business as CEO.

Thank you to the authors of this week’s FFI Practitioner, Devin DeCiantis and Ivan Lansberg, for this article discussing the strategies that enterprising families in emerging and frontier economies deploy to navigate unpredictable environments.

This week we are pleased to continue our series of guest-curated FFI Practitioner articles with Sian O’Neill, founder of publisher Globe Law and Business.

Thank you to William J. Kambas, David Guin, and Elliot Katz for this article, which provides a high-level introduction to the complex topic of compensation and incentive systems for family office leadership.

FFI Practitioner is pleased to feature a podcast conversation with H.R.H Princess Nandi Zulu, a distinguished member of the Zulu Royal Family, who is part of the 2086 Society's grant to the Nomadic School of Business.

Family enterprise advisors play a crucial role in guiding their clients through an ownership transition from a sibling partnership to a cousin consortium.

The second part in this article by Dennis Jaffe and Amy Hart Clyne picks up where Part I ends.

Thanks to Dennis Jaffe and Amy Hart Clyne for this two-part article that draws on their experience working with successful families to create an ongoing value-based culture for the responsible use of wealth across generations.

Thank you to FFI Asian Circle Virtual Study Group member Christian Stewart, FFI Fellow, and co-author Matthew Flynn, ACFBA/ACFWA, for their article that explores how advisors can balance their work with family enterprises to address both the governance structures and the family culture.

Continuing our quarterly series on the FFI conference theme, “Mean Time: Time, Timing, and Timelessness in Family Enterprise,” through the month of July we are pleased to feature issues related to presentations that will be made in London in October.

Continuing our quarterly series on the 2024 FFI conference theme of “Mean Time: Time, Timing, and Timelessness in Family Enterprise,” we are pleased to present a podcast interview with Krishna Thapa, a “warrior monk.”

For family enterprises, passing ownership from the founder to the next generation represents a critical transition that requires careful planning to help the family prepare for increasingly complex decision-making processes.

Continuing our quarterly series on the 2024 FFI conference theme of “Mean Time: Time, Timing, and Timelessness in Family Enterprise,” we are pleased to present a podcast interview the Emmanuel Mankura, an elder in the Maasai tribe.

In this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner, Ricardo Mejía shares his reflections on the importance of storytelling as a way to transmit the “company soul” to the next generation of family owners.

Thank you to this week’s contributor, Sally Woodford, for her article exploring the many ways a family charter can help provide family enterprise clients with a foundation to strengthen family unity and sustain multigenerational success.

In this week’s FFI Practitioner, contributors Omar Romman and Ben Francois explore the topic of how to balance family member and independent director participation on the board.

This week, FFI Practitioner is pleased to share a second article by Ken McCracken in honor of the 300th anniversary of the birth of economist and philosopher, Adam Smith.

Thank you to this week’s contributor, Doug Gray, for providing an overview of a model that can help your family enterprise clients negotiate emotional topics.

In this week’s issue of FFI Practitioner, Matthew Erskine considers the ways that a prenuptial agreement can be an effective tool for family enterprises not only to protect family assets, but to articulate their philosophy and vision for the family’s future.

In today’s turbulent world, family enterprise owners must become more agile to keep up with increasing rate of change.