Are you a manager or a leader? The two roles are very different, but equally critical. Join us to discuss how your skills impact your role as a leader or a manager. We will offer tips and strategies on identifying your strengths to maximize your business and how networks can help define your management leadership skill set.

Family dynamics are an inherent part of leading a business. It’s a delicate ballet between business demands and family demands. Are you caring for elderly parents, managing your children and running a family business? How can you navigate that fine line and maintain sanity and a sense of wellbeing? In this session, we take a deep dive into this sensitive topic and offer tips that will help you walk that line.

Join us for a networking and idea exchange with fellow attendees. This is a great opportunity to learn, network, tell stories, laugh, relax and enjoy each other.  Jot down and bring your greatest lesson-mistake-success-advice-aha moment (choose one!) as a professional woman in family business. We will all share these and learn from each other.

A conversation with Lisa Ingram, President & CEO of White Castle.

Please note: You can ask questions anytime during the presentation using the Q&A box. Questions will appear as “waiting for review.” We will get to as many questions as possible. 

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While men have controlled the wealth in most American households, the picture is changing. More women are making financial and investment decisions for their families, and as the Boomer generation dies off, many women are poised to inherit those assets and, more importantly, make the decisions that define wealth transfers. This session will provide advice on inheritance and asset management.

Whether you work in the family business or not, governance roles offer a path to achievement and success in your family enterprise. If your family firm has not created a working board or a family council, you may need to take the initiative to develop these governance bodies. This session will offer advice on stepping up to key posts in family governance.

So you’re new to family business decision making and you have ideas. Big ones. What is the best approach for sharing those ideas? How can you bring your innovative — even disruptive — ideas to your family’s business? And how will you possibly find the time to bring those ideas to fruition when you’re taking care of very young kids? It can be daunting, but we offer advice on how NextGens can be both family-focused and entrepreneurial.

“Triangulation” — using a third party to relay a message instead of discussing an issue directly with the relevant person — is a common problem in family communication. Female relatives often are pulled into the middle of disputes. This session offers tips on how to promote conflict resolution without getting pulled into the role of mediator.