In this week’s FFI Practitioner, FFI Asian Circle Virtual Study Group member Aik-Ping Ng discusses how family enterprise advisors can use the Enneagram, a personality assessment tool, to help guide their clients through conflict and improve communication. Aik-Ping introduces the Enneagram’s nine personality types and explores their utility through a case study, demonstrating the ways in which assessing clients’ types and growth directions can help advisors mitigate family conflict and develop action plans for improvement.

Thank you to Doutzen Groothof and Don Optatrny for this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner. Doutzen and Don recently traveled to Japan, and this journey gave them a renewed appreciation for the power of curiosity, both in family advisory practice and beyond. Their co-written article reflects their personal observations and lessons, offered as insights for practitioners to consider in their own work.

FFI Practitioner is pleased to feature a podcast conversation with Sasha Lund, Jessica McGawley, and Larisa Miller, discussing a recently published Special Report from Globe Law and Business publisher: The Rising Role of Women in Family Offices and Family Businesses. Sasha, the report’s consulting editor, and Jessica and Larisa, two contributors to the report, discuss the report’s findings and how they are illustrated through their own careers.