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Choosing the Right Program
Choosing the Right Program for you and your Business
The Global Family Business Center at IMD offers a comprehensive range of open and customized programs for family businesses, giving you the options you need to address your business's unique challenges.
We understand the challenges facing family-owned businesses and can help to manage the critical issues as well as benchmark the best practices, giving you the tools to ensure the success of your business in this generation and in the generations to come.
Open-enrollment programs
Leading the Family Business (LFB) is IMD's flagship program for members of family-owned businesses. It is renowned for providing advanced fundamentals and in-depth insights into the unique and complex dynamic in which family businesses operate. Succession issues, family governance, communication and ownership are covered as well as strategies for business growth.
| "Family businesses are different. The LFB program is a MUST for anyone wanting to maximize the inherent strengths of a family business, whilst understanding that complexity can be positive and must be managed. A truly remarkable insight for all family businesses" |
Willliam Lees-Jones Director J. W. Lees & Co (Brewers) Ltd United Kingdom |
| "LFB will give you the foundation to successfully manage the unique challenges that family businesses face. We strongly recommend that families attend in teams in order to get the necessary tools and frameworks to move both the family and the business forward together." |
Lise Moeller IMD Family Business Relations |
For a selection of other IMD programs with relevance for business-owning families, please visit our open program section.
Customized programs
Each family is unique, and sometimes the specificities of their challenges require tailor-made solutions. Drawing on the expansive knowledge and expertise of more than two decades of experience with family business, the Global Family Business Center also offers custom programs designed to address the specific needs of our clients.
We provide an ordered approach to the highly-complex, often emotional, issues faced by each family-owned business. Our programs offer you absolute confidentiality and can be conducted anywhere, anytime according to your needs and schedule.
For more information, please visit our custom program section.
Our team is available to discuss your educational objectives and specific needs to help determine the best possible solution for you, your family and your family business. Please call Lise Moeller; tel. +41 21 618 03 29 or e-mail / lise.moeller@imd.org.
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Open programs
Custom programs
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