Thank you to Peter Jaskiewicz, James G. Combs, Klaus Uhlenbruck, Amlan Datta, and Katrina Barclay for this week’s FFI Practioner issue, a commentary on their research about the effect of family board involvement on family firms. In this article, the authors discuss what their findings suggest about the connection between a family firm’s performance and the number of family members on the board.

Thank you to Susan Kaye and Jack Troast, from the FFI Mediation Virtual Study Group, for this week’s FFI Practitioner issue. In this article, the authors draw upon their professional advisory backgrounds to address when and how to introduce a mediator into a family business system.

As with the April 16 FFI Practitioner issue, today’s article is a conversation starter in which Emily Bouchard and Charles Feltman use a model and a case to open conversations that can repair conflicts and build trust among client families.

These conversation starters are designed to assist advisors in opening topics that are appropriate to multi-generational companies, such as reflections on the past, looking ahead, personal insights, collaboration models, and more. Please read on for “Trust in the Family Enterprise: A Model and a Case Study.”