Family Business Programs

Helping families build a stronger family business ecosystem

Open programs

The IMD Global Family Business Center offers a series of open educational programs as well as a more customized approach focusing on the needs of your family, ownership group or business.

A transformative educational experience which offers participants new skills, the latest insights, and proven strategies for success and through world-class faculty and peer-to-peer learning.

Discover our family enterprise programs

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Leading the Family Business
Helps family businesses to better understand and manage their own challenges by sharing experiences and benchmarking success with other family firms.
Duration: 4-5 days
Fee: 10'500 CHF
Next start: 5 September 2022
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Leading your Family Philanthropy
Enables members of family business, family offices or family foundations to professionalize their giving to ensure it has a truly meaningful and sustainable impact.
Duration: 5 liVe sessions (15 hours)
Fee: 4'900 CHF
Next start: 9 March 2022
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Leading the Family Office
Helps families of wealth set up and sustainably govern their own Single Family Office
Duration: 3 days
Fee: 11'000 CHF
Next start: 1 June 2022
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Navigating your Family Enterprise into the Future
Program for enterprising families run as part of IMD's OWP program, a transformational experience providing cutting-edge insights on the hottest management topics.
Fee: 10'900 CHF
Next start: 27 June 2022
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Enterprising families are faced with a set of unique challenges related to governance, succession, ownership, wealth, family dynamics and strategy. Education is crucial to ensure a united family and long-term success of the business.
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Peter Vogel
Director of IMD Global Family Business Center
Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship

Customized programs

Sometimes, a fully customized program is what is needed. Perhaps your needs are changing or unclear? Or you are unable to travel to IMD? Or you wish to remain private?

These are just some of the reasons to talk to us about developing a fully customized program for your family; a program that reflects the opportunities and challenges of your family, your ownership group or of your business, and which is based on participants' goals and level of experience.

Our approach focuses on the family business ecosystem as a whole and often includes diagnostic assessments, designing structures, developing strategies, processes or plans, facilitating courageous conversations, educating and benchmarking.

Your Learning Journey

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CONTEXT: You gain a clear understanding of the objectives you want to achieve as a family or organization.
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TRANSFORMATION: You build the case for change and a detailed action plan associated with key areas of choice.
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CAPABILITIES: You develop the capabilities of your people in areas critical to your future success.
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IMPACT: Create lasting impact as you lead and drive change. What you create and learn at IMD will become ingrained within your business.

What participants say about our program

IMD helps Plus Pack chart a path to a smooth family business succession

Our positive experience in managing the transition of power between the third and fourth generation of our family, with support from IMD’s Global Family Business Center, offers four valuable lessons for businesses preparing for succession.

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Some key learnings from family programs

1988
IMD launched the world's FIRST open enrolment program for families in business
3000 +
family business alumni in all open programs since launch
26 years
of Global Family Business Awards

IMD Global Family Business Center

Since 1998, the IMD Global Family Business Center helps families build a stronger family business ecosystem by addressing their societal, business, ownership, family and individual strategies and well-being.

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The 5 touchstones of a healthy family business system

Societal and environmental health & well-being: Today's buiness leaders have a responsibility to not only their shareholders, but also their stakeholders such as employees, customers, public schools and the planet.
Organization health & well being: Running a high-performing and profitable business is essential for enterprising families - especially if they are growing in size over time - to ensure wealth preservation and, ideally, growth.
Ownership health & well-being: Having an ownership group that is emotionally -conneted, well-informed and capable of taking responsible decisions - in the interest of the stakeholder groups - is a major assets of family enterprises.
Family health & well-being: Family unity, trust, the maintaing of healthy relationships throught the family as well as a family governance, are crucial to ensure family enterprise longevity.
Individual health & well-being: Individual members of the family need to stay both physically and mentally healthy, to be able to continue to grow the business and the wider family enterprise system in a meaningful way.

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Would you like to know more about our activities? Get in touch with our team at the IMD Global Family Business Center.

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