Welcome to the first edition of LGA Insights for 2026!
As we embark on another year with fresh wind in our sails, we are grateful for the opportunity to support a growing community of enterprising families and partners around the world.
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. While the show’s brutal depiction of power games and systemic dysfunction makes for compelling television, Mika argues it highlights a total vacuum of the Seven Drivers of Continuity, and serves as a powerful reminder that enduring success is never inherited by accident; it is built with intention, humility, and collective vision.
We also share fresh insights from Nicolas Hollanders on whether Artificial Intelligence is a threat to the traditional family advisor, or its greatest ally. Nicolas argues that while AI can process data and draft reports in seconds, it is not capable of effectively navigating the “Three Pillars” of human expertise: intuition, confidentiality, and emotional connection. After all, it is this delicate emotional work—mediating conflicts and building trust—that ultimately secures a family’s multi-generational legacy.
Finally, we are thrilled to share with you a recent episode from Season 2 of the LGA Lighthouse Podcast! In this episode, host Tim Yeung sits down with Dr. Dana Dorfman to discuss her book, When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success. Their insightful discussion dives into how parents, particularly those in successful family enterprises, can transform their achievement-driven anxiety into intentional, values-based parenting.
We are deeply grateful to our clients and partners for entrusting us to support their businesses, families, and legacies; and wish you and your families a prosperous and successful 2026!
Your LGA Global Team
Why It Took Me Three Years to Finish HBO’s Succession
By Mika Mazor
Everyone around me seems to have watched Succession. Advisors, colleagues and clients speak about it as if it were required viewing for anyone working with family enterprises.
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.
Thankfully, the reality we see at LGA working with client families is very different. In my experience, most families committed to multi-generational success are driven by purpose, values, and responsibility, not cruelty or manipulation. Of course, they face complexity and conflict, as all families do. However, more often than not, they approach it from a place of care, long-term vision, and a deep commitment to something larger than themselves…
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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.
These sophisticated tools can conduct extensive research, process thousands of documents, and provide tailored recommendations based on industry best practices in seconds. They don’t need sleep, there are no costs associated with their travel, and they are available at the drop of a dime. For family businesses who, historically, have relied on the trusted advice of family enterprise advisors for continuity planning, succession and governance design this raises the question: Will AI replace our family enterprise consultant and help build our family’s lasting legacy?
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LGA Lighthouse: Season 2, Episode 3
Can Worry Actually Work for You to Parent with Purpose?
In this episode of the LGA Lighthouse Podcast, host Tim Yeung speaks with psychotherapist and author Dr. Dana Dorfman about her book, When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success. They discuss how parents, especially those in successful family enterprises, can transform their achievement-driven anxiety into intentional, values-based parenting.
LGA Highlights: What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening to This Month
In a rapidly shifting world, anticipating the future requires proactivity and perspective. That’s why our global team is on a journey of constant discovery and continuous learning in search of the latest ideas in business, leadership, family dynamics and beyond.
For this edition, we’ve curated the following list of resources that may be of interest—sparking new conversations across the team and expanding our thinking and work with client families:
- When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by psychologist Steven Pinker. This book offers a powerful lens to understand why sensitive issues, such as succession, power, unequal contribution, or performance, can feel emotionally charged, even when everyone seems to already know the reality. Pinker explains why governance milestones often feel disruptive, as they convert tacit knowledge into common knowledge.
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb. It’s an insightful, human, and often humorous look at the universal struggle of what it means to be human and the power we all have to take ownership of our life story.
- Sneaker Wars: Adidas v Puma chronicles the dramatic and often vicious sibling rivalry that led to the creation of two global sports giants. It serves as a powerful, real-world case study for every enterprising family, illustrating how unresolved conflict between founders can not only drive innovation but also fracture a legacy and a family – often beyond repair.
- The Founders Podcast focuses on the study of iconic entrepreneurs. By profiling figures like Sam Walton (Walmart) and John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil), the episodes offer critical insights on topics relevant to enterprising families—such as leadership, succession, and governance—during the crucial development stage of the “Controlling Owner”.
We hope you find these resources as inspiring and thought-provoking as we have. Please feel free to send us your favorites as well, as we are always on the lookout to gather and share great ideas!
Meet Our Newest Advisors
In our ongoing efforts to broaden our global impact and better meet the needs of our clients, we recently welcomed the following new Advisors to our growing global team, each of whom brings a wealth of expertise and experience to their work with enterprising families.
Lira Low
Switzerland
Lira Low is a conflict management specialist and a mediator with LGA, as well as a facilitator and executive coach. She facilitates sensitive conversations with and between different generations of enterprising families to support understanding, clarity and alignment on governance processes and systemic dynamics. Being multilingual and having lived on four continents, Lira draws on intercultural understanding and knowledge as well as nearly two decades of experience to provide strategic counsel and guidance in conflict management, systemic changes and trauma-sensitive coaching to family enterprises.
Michal Lubovsky
Israel
Michal Lubovsky brings over two decades of experience as a senior HR executive and strategic consultant, specializing in guiding leadership teams through complex organizational transformations, ownership strategy, and the critical implementation phases of transition. Throughout her distinguished career, Michal has served as a senior HR leader for several prominent global companies. Her deep expertise in change management is particularly valuable to family enterprises seeking to professionalize their operations or evolve their governance structures without losing their unique cultural identity.
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