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Family Enterprise Exchange (FEX) Canada Webinar: Managing Conflict in Family Business

Join FEX in a virtual conversation with Blair Trippe, Managing Partner of Continuity Family Business Consulting and Wendy Sage-Hayward, MA, FEA, in which we will discuss how to approach both active conflict—when families fight—and passive conflict—when families get stuck, unable to make important decisions in a timely manner. Participants will leave understanding why conflicts in families that own and manage companies and/or share assets are so common, and why failing to understand and manage conflict poses such a great threat to both the enterprise and the family.

Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE): Deconstructing Conflict: Understanding Family Business, Shared Wealth, and Power

Poorly managed family conflict is the biggest threat to family business; it impacts both the business performance and important family relationships.  Learning to manage this unique type of conflict is the most critical success factor for families that share business or other assets.  Trusted advisors can learn how to help their client families de-escalate and resolve situations, preserve family harmony and, in doing so, strengthen their own professional relationship with the family.  Understanding how to work with family business power structures and the conflicts inherent in the overlapping systems of shared family enterprise will enhance your ability to help your clients achieve their goals—and protect and enrich lasting family relationships.  
 This webinar will help you understand your client’s passive conflict (getting stuck) and active conflict (fighting) so you can better advise your client families. You’ll leave better able to create lasting agreements for your clients as they work to manage the inherent conflict in family enterprise.

Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO): Strategies for Conflict Mitigation and Resolution in the Family Business

Poorly managed family conflict is the biggest threat to family business; it impacts both the business performance and important family relationships.  Learning to manage this unique type of conflict is the most critical success factor for families that share business or other assets. Participants will leave understanding why conflicts in families that own and manage companies and/or share assets are so common, and why failing to understand and manage conflict poses such a great threat to both the enterprise and the family.