Kellogg School of Management

Governing for Generational Growth

Kellogg School of Management

Governance

About Programme

Family enterprises share a common goal: to prosper across many generations. Achieving this goal can be challenging, with complex family dynamics adding an emotional layer to already complicated business decisions. While governance structures help families preserve continuity, their greatest value lies in enabling growth, innovation, and entrepreneurial renewal across generations.

The Governing for Generational Growth program focuses on building strategies that will allow family businesses to thrive now and well into the future, with a focus on an entrepreneurial mindset. Blending entrepreneurship and family governance topics, participants will learn how to build effective governance that supports innovation and growth across generations. In addition to cutting-edge family enterprise approaches to entrepreneurship and innovation topics, the program will also address questions related to family and business governance, communication and growth strategy. These topics will be taught by a mix of esteemed Kellogg faculty and practicing subject matter experts with extensive experience in the world of family enterprises.

Groups are encouraged but NOT REQUIRED. No more than 5 participants per family enterprise are permitted to attend at one time. Requests for groups of more than five in a single session must be approved by the program’s Academic Director. Please direct your inquiry to the John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises at [email protected] .

The Family Enterprise suite of programs is a blend of three different learning modes designed to maximize both convenience and impact:

Programme Content

Laying the foundation

Using values and purpose to guide the family's vision
Practicing strategic governance: designing systems around what the family hopes to achieve, not simply what it seeks to avoid
Establishing an entrepreneurial mindset

The approach

Creating internal structures to support growth
Embracing failure and disruptions in the family and business
Leveraging individual and family strengths to drive growth

Your toolkit

Trust as the accelerator for growth and change
Assumption testing and prototyping
Creating a culture of growth

Greasing the wheels

Overcoming friction in the business and the family
Generational entrepreneurship – the next generation
Having difficult conversations and overcoming relational frictions

Taking action

Respecting the legacy while building for the future
The entrepreneurial leader

Programme Audience

Leaders and members of family enterprises seeking to build entrepreneurial capabilities and growth strategies for long-term generational success
Consultants or advisors are not eligible unless attending with a family member

Programme Benefits

Learn from other families in a similar stage of evolution through exposure to other participants and cases
Discover how governance structures can support innovation, entrepreneurship, and continuity across generations
Acquire the necessary tools and a common language to put concepts into action with members of the family business
Use findings from a dedicated growth project to immediately implement learnings to unique challenges of your organization

Testimonials

"This program provided an excellent overview of the issues surrounding early governance formation and transition in family business. Each time that members of my family or I take time away to wrestle with these issues, I inevitably notice growth and change in a positive direction for our family and our business."

Anonymous

"Excellent material regarding the structural dynamics of a family enterprise. Class sessions presented a mix of interesting lectures, interactive exercises and case studies. The instructors are experts in the field and very engaging in the classroom."

Anonymous

"This program provided a great opportunity for me and my family to learn more about the unique issues affecting families in business, to connect with other families considering similar issues, and to carve out valuable time to discuss these issues as a family."

Anonymous

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