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A Family Foundation Won’t Fix What Isn’t Working

Before establishing a family foundation for the purpose of collective giving, it is imperative that families consider their ability to find common purpose and work together productively. A collective approach to giving should build on a foundation of social capital, rather than be a driving tool to create it.

-Podcasts

What Can Elite Performers Teach Your Family Business About Success?

In this episode of the LGA Lighthouse podcast, host Tim Yeung interviews Dr. Alex
Auerbach, a performance psychologist who has worked with elite professional athletes and
high-performing individuals. Alex shares powerful insights on how the principles of peak
performance psychology can be applied to family enterprises to foster long-term success.

Generation Of Giving
-Books

Generations Of Giving

“A thorough and powerful work, Generations of Giving: Leadership and Continuity in Family Foundations demands.

-Articles

When Silence Speaks: Are Family Business Conflicts a Threat or a Source of Strength?

In a family business, conflict is often perceived as a threat to the family’s very core. When siblings disagree, or when parents and children argue about the business, the stakes go far beyond strategy or finances. The deeper fear is that the relationship itself may crack. The possibility that a disagreement could damage the family creates real, often overwhelming anxiety. It can feel like there’s no safe way forward.

-Articles

Breaking the Silence: Leadership of Two Truths

Sometimes, the most dangerous moments in the life of a family business are actually the quiet ones. The moments where everyone is smiling around the holiday table, but beneath the surface, unspoken tension simmers. We tend to think that silence is a sign of harmony, but when it stems from the fear of raising explosive topics, it is not harmony, it is a ticking clock.

-Podcasts

How Are Generational Shifts in China Reshaping the Global Family Business?

In this episode of the LGA Lighthouse podcast, host Tim Yeung interviews Zak Dychtwald, author of the book Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World and founder of the Young China Group. Zak provides a human-centered view of the generational and cultural shifts happening in China, and how they’re reshaping global business, family dynamics, and individual identity.

Newsletter

LGA Insights – January 2026

Welcome to the first edition of LGA Insights for 2026!
In this edition, you’ll find a recent article from our colleague Mika Mazor, who frames how the hit series Succession serves as the ultimate “negative case study” for multi-generational success.
We also share fresh insights from Nicolas Hollanders on whether Artificial Intelligence is a threat to the traditional family advisor, or its greatest ally.

-Articles

Family Governance: Can AI Become Your Trusted Advisor?

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not merely a technological shift; it represents a fundamental transformation reshaping every industry across the world. While the precise nature of its impact on the highly nuanced field of family enterprise consulting remains uncertain, change is upon us.

-Articles

Why It Took Me Three Years to Finish HBO’s Succession and What It Teaches Us About How Not to Run a Family Enterprise

I tried to watch the award-winning HBO series on numerous occasions, stopping repeatedly, not because it wasn’t brilliant, but because it was brutal. The cynicism, humiliation, and constant power games felt too extreme. For anyone working closely with multi-generational family enterprises, this world of perpetual chaos and zero-sum power felt not only far removed from our reality, but was also a painful mirror reflecting everything that causes a family enterprise to fail.