
This event is open to family businesses, advisors, FBA members and non-members.
Join keynote speaker Franco Lombardo as he presents on Emotional Governance for Lasting Family Business Success. This session will help family businesses identify, explore and thoughtfully challenge the unspoken rules that shape family dynamics and personal relationships, often without being acknowledged.
During this presentation, Francesco Lombardo will draw on soon-to-be-released research to frame the four key questions that all families, regardless of wealth, and their advisers should be asking. Expect a lively and practical discussion, with insights you can apply to your own family or to the families you advise, to support long term continuity and success across generations.
This event will be held in person at ANZ, Wellington Central.
Session topic
Emotional Governance for Lasting Family Business Success
As families prepare for a transition of ownership, leadership and wealth, there are numerous processes, procedures, and decisions to be made. We have countless checklists and audits that remind us of this. Yet, many of these structural mechanisms designed to help the process leave out two critical components - individual and family emotions. Emotions are inherent in every decision we make, and relegating their importance to an afterthought is dangerous, irresponsible, and may lead to an uncertain future legacy for the family, ownership and business.
Speaker:
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Francesco (Franco) Lombardo Founder and CEO, Veritage |
For more than twenty years, Francesco (Franco) Lombardo (FEA) has been a family business coach to some of the world’s most successful and affluent families. His early years spent in the corporate world, in tandem with his own journey of emotional self-discovery, gave Franco a deep insight into the unique pressures facing high-net-worth families and the complexity of not only sustaining their financial wealth, but their emotional wealth. As a leading global expert on the emotional impact money and wealth has on relationships within family businesses, he is committed to assisting families find, create, and maintain emotional safety by developing new models for cultural governance, which contributes to the stability, continuity and sustainability of the family business enterprise, its wealth and its legacy.
Why Attend?
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Gain a clear understanding of emotional governance and how unspoken family rules and relationships influence business decisions
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Learn from new research that highlights the four key questions families and advisors should be asking during transitions of ownership, leadership, and wealth
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Take away practical insights to help family businesses strengthen emotional safety and improve their chances of long term, multigenerational success
Event host and partner:

ANZ Private is New Zealand’s leading private bank. We build lasting relationships by working with you to achieve your financial and personal goals and are privileged to work with a large number of high-net-worth New Zealanders from a diverse range of backgrounds.

