On-Campus Programs
Promoting leadership and learning with peers
A unique learning experience
LGA’s advisors are faculty or frequent lecturers at universities, conferences, and private seminars. We have long-standing academic relationships with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the School of Management at Yale University, and Harvard University, among others.
In our experience, on-campus learning is a great compliment to custom on-site programs because they provide direct contact with other enterprising families who are wrestling with similar issues or have resolved them in the past and can share their unique perspectives on continuity planning and achieving multi-generational success.
Here are some of the upcoming on-campus programs facilitated by LGA Advisors:
Leading for Impact within Family Enterprise
With Ivan Lansberg and Wendy Ulaszek at Kellogg School of Management-Northwestern University
As an aspiring leader within a family enterprise, you’ll discover how to establish your credibility and authority in the business community, among family shareholders, with the board and management team. As an established leader, you’ll explore the complexities of mentoring the next generation and of managing succession and letting go. For all, the program can enable you to better manage the nuanced paradoxes that are characteristic of family business leadership.
Forming Family Enterprise Governance
With Ivan Lansberg at Kellogg School of Management-Northwestern University
This program is focused on what skills owners need to design appropriate governance architecture, lead effective decision-making across all stakeholders, and set a vision that will guide multi-generational continuity. Leading faculty from the John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises and across Kellogg, in addition to insights from successful families who have made this transition, will provide you with engaging and thought-provoking approaches and frameworks.
Governing Family Enterprises
With Ivan Lansberg, Devin DeCiantis, and Chris Robichaud at Kellogg School of Management-Northwestern University
Explore the specialized knowledge and skills unique to governing a complex family enterprise effectively. In a collaborative, supportive environment alongside representatives of other enterprising families facing similar issues, you and your family owners, board members, and executives can tackle together the complex issues of continuity and governance.
Family Enterprise Boards
With Ivan Lansberg and Devin DeCiantis at Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University
The director plays a pivotal role in effectively guiding family-owned businesses. This program from leading family business experts goes in-depth on the issues that affect current and emerging board members, such as managing the board’s strategic, fiduciary, and communication functions.
Through interactive lectures with leading Kellogg faculty, in-depth case studies, and panels with experienced family and independent directors, participants will emerge with a well-rounded skill set to effectively manage the essential functions of aligning the board’s work with the values and long-term growth of family-owned businesses.
Family Business in Theory and Practice
With Devin DeCiantis at Harvard University
Roughly one-fifth of Fortune 500 companies are family-controlled. Outside the US, that number can rise up to 90 percent of all business activity and employment within a country. The vast majority of these family businesses are small- and medium-sized mom-and-pop shops. The rest are some of the largest and most influential institutions in the world—from iconic brands like Wal-Mart and Volkswagen to emerging global powerhouses like Samsung and Tata. Students survey the vast network of family enterprises that help to power the global economy. They also analyze cases that exemplify their greatest strengths and challenges.
Leadership and Character in Uncertain Times
With Chris Robichaud at Harvard Kennedy School
In today’s ever-changing world, it is crucial that leaders act with integrity and authenticity. How do you balance your own values with the values of a community? How can behavioral sciences give us tools to bring about institutional change?
Leadership and Character in Uncertain Times is a five-week online program that offers a unique opportunity to learn how to lead in times of conflict and disagreement. Explore adaptive leadership concepts and gain tools to exercise moral leadership both within organizations and in society.
Related Insights
What do family business leaders need to learn?
Ivan Lansberg and Devin DeCiantis discuss the importance of education with Dr. Jennifer Pendergast from Kellogg
Reality Bites: How can simulations support family business continuity?
Chris Robichaud and Devin DeCiantis talk about how simulations can support continuity.
What is a family owners council and why does it matter?
Dr Katherine Grady and Dr Wendy Ulaszek discuss Family Owners Councils and their importance supporting family business continuity.
Educating family business owners
We conceptualize two interrelated approaches to education: a deductive or “outside-in” approach.
Beware developmental illiteracy
Families pay a high price for not understanding that individuals grapple with different issues at different ages.
Feuding Twins
A tragic breach between a pair of once-close twins shakes the foundations of a family-controlled public company.
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.
Devin DeCiantis
Devin has been advising and teaching for over a decade and specializes in the financial, organizational, and strategic aspects of complex family enterprises.
Fernanda Jaramillo
Fernanda is a partner working primarily in Central and South America. Fernanda has extensive experience supporting families in transition.
Christopher Robichaud
Christopher has over a decade of professional experience working at the intersection of education and practice.
Matt Allen
Matt’s expertise is in the area of family learning, family entrepreneurship and the development of the next generation
