Legacy 13 - Family Owned Business Forum

The challenges faced in family-owned firms differ substantially from those in other companies and include leadership and ownership succession, interaction of family and business, the role of owners, and family relationships.

The Family Owned Businesses Forum offers a unique environment for you to better understand and address your specific family business issues. You will benefit from the latest thinking and best practices on a wide range of family enterprise topics. The programme is designed so that you can immediately apply the learning to your own situation, and experience a higher level of communication within your family group.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
- Greater understanding of the challenges and dynamics of family businesses
- Better insight into governance structures and processes
- Smoother transitions
- Improve your personal communication skills
- Enhanced dialogue within your family team
- Adoption of fairer decision-making processes
- Development of concrete family action plans
- Improve family business relationships and communications
- Increase sibling cooperation and decrease sibling rivalry
- Increase family teamwork & collaboration
- Decrease inter-family conflict
- Focus on maximizing the strengths and opportunities to move your company from "Good to Great"

DURING THIS PROGRAM, PARTICIPANTS WILL:
• Gain practical perspective from other family business owners
• Determine the role of governance in relation to your family business
• Learn how to transition the family business to the next generation
• Discuss what other family businesses are doing and why

STRATEGIC OUTCOMES:
- New methodologies for leadership and engagement in the family
- Exciting ways to build and sustain inter-generational cohesion
- Making YOUR family story come to life beyond the myths

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
o Head of Family Business
o Family Business CRO
o Chief Executive Officer
o Committee President/Vice President
o Head of Investment/Governance Strategy
o Family Business CFO/CIO
o Partner from Legal or Accounting Firm
o Independent Adviser to a Family Business

Our Facilitators will include:

Lloyd Shefsky - Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, Founder and Co-Director; Centre for Family Enterprises-Kellogg School of Management

Andre Diederichs - Accredited Family Business Consultant, Public Speaker and Author. Director of FABASA (Family Business Association of South Africa)

Prof Elmarie Venter - Director, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Family Business Unit

Riana Grobler - Chairperson for Cape Town Business Chamber, Business Consultant for Family Businesses - Old Mutual

Rod Klute - Partner, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Brian Eaton - B.Acc, H.Dip. Tax Law, CA (SA) Brian is the Chairman of RSM Betty & Dickson (Pty) Ltd in South Africa, Managing Partner of the Johannesburg office

Reana Rossouw - Managing Director, Next Generations Consultant

Winston Nolan - Serial Entrepreneur and Author: "The Anatomy of a business"

Date: 27 June 2013 to 28 June 2013
Time: 08:00 - 17:00
Venue: The Gateway Hotel, Umhlanga, Durban
Cost: 1DelegateR6999+VAT,2DelegatesR9999+VAT,3DelegatesR14999+VAT,4DelegatesR18999+VAT

More info:

The Gateway Hotel - Appealing to both the leisure and business market, our venue allows guests instant access to all that the Gateway Theatre of Shopping has to offer. For those looking to keep their children occupied, this Hotel is for you!

A wonderful and central venue for business men and women, the Gateway Hotel is soon to become the preferred venue for conferences and business meetings.