Leadership Development
Empowering your key decision-makers
The Challenge
The success of any family enterprise is strongly influenced by the skill and alignment of its leaders. This becomes especially apparent during leadership transitions, which cannot happen without effective collaboration across generations.
As family enterprises become more complex over time, the skills required for successful leadership need to evolve, particularly as non-family members join your leadership teams. Additionally, there are a distinct set of skills needed to lead a family enterprise effectively, which go above and beyond typical management training, and where experience or instinct alone is rarely a useful guide.
Our Solution
Given the critical impact of leadership on the performance and continuity of a family enterprise, developing this capacity throughout the system should be a strategic priority. LGA’s Leadership Development services are designed to help you strengthen the skills of current and future leaders through assessments, skill-building, coaching, and experiential training.
How does it work?
We tailor our Leadership Development support to the unique needs of your family enterprise. These services include:
- Working with family leaders to anticipate and manage the increasing complexity of the business and the family
- Helping senior family members to define their legacy and manage their transition from active leadership throughout the enterprise
- Strengthening the skills of the rising generation so they are prepared to take on leadership roles in the business, in ownership, and in the family
- Assessing the capabilities of current and future leadership via the LGA 360 for Family Leaders
- Facilitating group activities to strengthen leadership capacity between generations and family branches
- Helping non-family executives to lead the family enterprise and support the family governance system effectively
- Advising family members on career development opportunities both within and outside of the family enterprise
- Coaching leaders throughout the enterprise on how to best support continuity
How does it benefit your family?
LGA’s advisors are available to support your key leadership teams by providing:
- Senior leaders with new perspectives and tools to collaborate more effectively across the enterprise
- The rising generation with new skills and strategies to help deliver on the family’s long-term vision for the enterprise
- The family enterprise as a whole with the confidence that both current and future leadership teams have the skills and resources needed to support continuity for many years to come
Case Study
Case Study: Sustaining Engagement in a Cousins Consortium
Three third-generation Family Directors of a large enterprising family were attending a global conference focused on innovation and growth. Their 90-year old family had deep pride and gratitude for the success and leadership of previous generations. However, there were no family members currently working actively in the business, and the family’s only connection to their vast operations — which spanned eight industries and three continents — was limited to these three members of the Board.
Related Insights
LGA Insights – October 2025
These last few months have been filled with activity, as we’ve expanded our global footprint through the addition of new team members, and increased our presence in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Later this summer, we will begin publishing episodes for the second season of our LGA Lighthouse Podcast, and will continue sharing fresh insights through a variety of articles, interviews, and other thoughtful content generated by our global advisory team.
Within that context, we’re thrilled to share with you the latest reflections from our Partner, Fernanda Jaramillo. In this edition of LGA Insights, Fernanda describes the importance for enterprising families of establishing and maintaining a shared vision to ensure continuity and legacy—particularly in moments of generational transition.
The Enterprising Family Tree: Nurturing Your Roots for Lasting Growth
Envisioning the family enterprise as a tree allows us to better understand the practical hierarchy at play: the roots represent the foundational family dynamics, the strong trunk embodies the ownership structure, and the expansive canopy symbolizes the diverse business ventures. This visual framework brings new clarity to the dynamic interplay of roles, responsibilities, and priorities across all facets of the family’s enterprise.
The Art of Ambidextrous Leadership
Successful family enterprise leaders must tend both to the needs of the business and the family
How can coaching and mentoring be leveraged to develop family leaders?
Sharon Duguid and Wendy Ulaszek discuss the benefits, techniques and challenges of coaching family businesses.
Next in Line: How can family businesses raise good owners?
Devin Deciantis and Nicolas Hollanders discuss the importance of engaging the next generation.
What do family business leaders need to learn?
Ivan Lansberg and Devin DeCiantis discuss the importance of education with Dr. Jennifer Pendergast from Kellogg
Featured advisors
Kathleen Boyle Dalen
Kathleen is a psychologist with deep experience blending her training in organizational and family systems with philanthropy governance.
Anurat Kongtoranin
Anurat focuses on helping enterprising families build governance structures, develop family constitutions, and prepare rising-generation leaders. His approach blends theoretical rigor with practical wisdom, shaped by his own journey navigating generational transitions within his family enterprise.
Bobby Ning
With 25 years of experience, Bobby empowers wealth inheritors within enterprising families, equipping them with the essential mindset, practical tools, and crucial communication skills to become responsible owners and stewards of their wealth. He specializes in owner education development and financial literacy, delivering comprehensive wealth, tax, and estate management education tailored specifically for family enterprise and business leaders.
Alphil Guilaran
With 25 years of experience, Alphil empowers wealth inheritors to become responsible owners and stewards of their family’s legacy. He’s passionate about fostering financially literate generations, helping families bridge communication gaps to preserve their values and vision.
Sharilyn Hale
Sharilyn helps generous families and individuals channel their wealth and influence for good. She works with leading philanthropists and social purpose organizations across North America and the Caribbean, guiding them to give well, engage their families, and create a meaningful legacy.
Juana Carvajal
Drawing on her academic background and personal experience as a member of a family
business, she brings a strong understanding of team development, group dynamics, and conflict
management.
Thomas Ang
Thomas is a Partner with LGA, where he leads the firm’s Global Practice for Family Offices and is the lead advisor for Asia.
Helena Schmidt
Helena specializes in leadership development, executive and team coaching, and organizational learning.
Paula Rincon
Paula specializes in working with business families, helping them navigate interpersonal dynamics, manage conflicts, and strengthen relationships to ensure family harmony.
Claudia Tondo
Claudia has been advising business families for over three decades, with expertise in businesses families’ transitions, family governance, shareholder relations, family protocols, and strengthening corporate governance.
Diane Roche
Diane is a psychologist who consults in complex business and family environments to optimize the functioning of both individuals and the family business system.
Marcy Laviage
Marcy’s experience as a clinical psychologist, executive coach, and team facilitator gives her a unique ability to recognize the impact of individual factors in a team environment.
Jeremy Cheng
With over two decades of experience in the field of family enterprise, Jeremy works closely with enterprising families to develop and review their governance systems, facilitate strategic transitions of their legacies, and nurture individual and organizational capabilities to achieve their shared future.
Ivan Lansberg
Ivan is a Founding Partner and consults with complex family businesses in the USA, Canada, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Lucía Arteta
Lucía firmly believes that each family needs to design tailored structures, strategies, and agreements to succeed and to create a legacy beyond financial gains.