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.
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Featured advisors
Ivan Lansberg
Ivan is a Founding Partner and consults with complex family businesses in the USA, Canada, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Wendy Ulaszek
Wendy is a partner that has over 15 years of consulting and counseling experience in individual, group, and organizational assessment and leadership development.
Katherine Grady
Katherine has advised families for over 25 years, focusing on continuity planning, governance design, leadership development, executive coaching, and team building.
Maria Dolores Moreno
Maria is a former Chief Financial Officer and has worked in the field of finance in family-owned businesses over the last twenty years.
Nate Hamilton
Nathan is an accomplished executive with wide-ranging experience across a variety of private and not-for-profit organizations.
Sharon Duguid
Sharon has been consulting and coaching internationally to privately held and family-owned enterprises for over 25 years.
Lisa Lazarus
Lisa is a trusted advisor, strategist, facilitator, and executive coach who applies an equity lens to help families take action.
Sarah Cox
Sarah provides consultation to multi-generation family businesses regarding governance, shareholder development, and leadership development.
Matt Allen
Matt’s expertise is in the area of family learning, family entrepreneurship and the development of the next generation
Mika Mazor
Mika advises family businesses on intergenerational transfer, strategy formulation, corporate governance, human capital development, and navigating complex changes
Tim Yeung
Tim Yeung has a strong background in business and a deep understanding of family enterprise dynamics and governance structures.
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.
Kathleen Boyle Dalen
Kathleen is a psychologist with deep experience blending her training in family and organizational systems with philanthropic strategy and governance.
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.
