Your trusted partner in driving family and enterprise success across generations.
Family business programs
Your trusted partner in driving family and enterprise success across generations.
Leading a family business means balancing tradition and innovation, managing family dynamics, and taking decisions that will shape the future. From succession and governance to sustaining growth and managing family wealth, the challenges are complex – but so are the opportunities.
For generations, IMD has been guiding family enterprises to success, equipping leaders with the skills and strategies to navigate these complexities with confidence. Developed by the IMD Global Family Business Center, our specialized portfolio of programs is designed to help your family enterprise navigate unique challenges and opportunities – whether you’re driving the business forward, managing a family office, or preparing the next generation.
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Join a complementary masterclass or information session and dive into topics such as leadership, AI, strategy, and more. You’ll discover more about how we teach and explore our executive programs along the way. See all upcoming IMD events.
“From family business to family in business.”
Learn more about family business at IMD. Peter Vogel, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Family Business, explains why resilience & adaptability are critical success factors for the continuity of a family business.
Looking for a custom solution for your family business?
Sometimes, a fully customized program is what is needed. Perhaps your needs are changing or unclear? 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 your family’s unique opportunities and challenges, your ownership group, or your business, 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.
You gain a clear understanding of the objectives you want to achieve as a family or organization.
You build the case for change and a detailed action plan associated with your key areas of choice.
You develop the capabilities of your people in areas critical to your future success.
You create lasting impact as you lead and drive change. What you create and learn at IMD will become ingrained within your business.
IMD’s Global Family Business Center
IMD’s Family Business programs are developed in conjunction with the IMD Global Family Business Center. With over 30 years’ expertise, this center of excellence leads family business research and education. Ensuring the sustainable success of your business and family, whether large or small.
4th Generation, Wagstaff, Inc., United States
This program has made a huge impact – not just on a family business level but on our family as a whole. In just a week, there has already been a significant change in everyone who attended, and it’s exciting to see what more will be implemented because of this. It’s the best thing that could have happened to our business.
Leading your Family Business participant
Seolahm Consulting Ltd, Nigeria
The program was insightful…mind-blowing. It has a lot to give, in terms of interactive sessions and diversity. It was amazing to see a diverse culture of peers being able to interact, network – and that the problems faced within one country are similar to those faced in another.
Leading your Family Office participant
Connect Services, Saudi Arabia
It’s not the same as any other course I’ve ever been to; you need to come here to experience it yourself. I came with my family, to explore, understand, and navigate the whole next stage of our development and our growth. And there was no better place to get us ready for that than IMD.
Leading your Family Office participant
Mills, 3rd Generation, Brazil
I would call the experience intensely professional but also incredibly personal. There’s a lot of learning coming from the speakers, but an equally huge amount of learning coming from the interaction with the other families.
Leading your Family Office participant