Enabling families to be fit for the future
Through peer exchange and expert insights on family governance, business leadership and succession.
Events
We design curated events for family businesses, from focused seminars to multi-day conferences.
Each gathering creates a trusted space for peer exchange, practical insights and open discussion of real-life challenges.
Family business owners and recognized experts share first-hand experience, challenge perspectives and open new paths forward.
Topics range from family and corporate governance to leadership, conflict management, intergenerational dynamics, sustainability and succession.
Company visits
Exclusive visits to family businesses offer direct insight into day-to-day operations, strategic choices and governance in practice.
Members engage directly with owner families to exchange experience, challenge approaches and gain concrete, transferable ideas.
Workshops
Focused, hands-on sessions designed to turn knowledge into action.
Through real case studies and small, trusted groups, participants work through concrete business and family challenges, including sensitive governance or conflict situations.
Custom workshops and seminars can also be designed on request for member families.
Partnerships
Rooted locally and connected internationally, we build strong partnerships that bridge theory and practice. Through close collaboration with academic institutions, competence centres and selected organisations, we enrich dialogue, insight and impact for family businesses.
Center for Family Business at the University of St. Gallen (CFB-HSG)
Research, teaching and training in the field of family business form an integrated cycle at the Center for Family Business at the University of St. Gallen (CFB-HSG). Close contact between students and, above all, family businesses is also a key component of its work as a national and international centre of excellence.
Lucerne School of Business (HSLU)
The thematic focus of family and business by the Lucerne School of Business supports family businesses in developing solutions to meet their needs. It offers education and continued professional development in the field of family entrepreneurship and is renowned for its annual Forum for Family Businesses, which tackles issues that affect both families and business development.
Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise (WICFE)
With more than 20 years’ experience, the Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise (WICFE) is a leading international resource for family businesses. The academic chair founded by the Wendel family at the renowned INSEAD offers both training programmes and numerous events on themes relating to family businesses.
IMD Global Family Business Center
The IMD Global Family Business Center is a leading international centre of excellence for research, training and public relations for family businesses. Since 1988, it has designed and implemented tailored programmes for families, family businesses, family offices and family foundations.
Awards
Swiss Family Business Award
Since 2017, we have been a partner of the Family Business Award, the largest independent prize for Swiss family businesses. The award is given annually to exemplary family businesses that stand out for to their exceptional and sustainable way of doing business.
IMD Global Family Business Award
The IMD Global Family Business Award recognises excellence in building and managing a family business. Since 1996, the award has become established as one of the most sought-after in the field of family enterprises and offers families a valuable opportunity to share best practice from across the world.
Advocacy
Swiss Family Business
Running a family business also entails social and political commitment in order to actively represent its interests vis-à-vis political decision-makers, public authorities and the general public. As an independent network, we therefore cooperate with Swiss Family Business, the leading Swiss advocacy group for family entrepreneurs.