After more than thirty years consulting for Fortune 100 companies, international organizations, and family businesses around the world, Gibb Dyer argues that the secret ingredient to business and entrepreneurial success is not an MBA from a great school, a fantastic marketing plan, or even a blue ocean strategy, but access to three types of capital: financial, social, and human. Dyer’s three decades worth of research and data conclude that the most effective and successful entrepreneurs have immediate access to these three–all within their family.

Gibb Dyer is the O. Leslie Stone Professor in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He is an award-winning author of over 50 articles and 9 books and has been a member of FFI since 1986.

In this book, Steve Legler explores the interface between Bowen Family Systems Theory and its potential uses for advisors working with business families and families of wealth. His goal in writing this book is to help enterprising family leaders and their successors develop a shared vision to sustain their wealth and legacy beyond the next generation.

Steve Legler is a family legacy advisor based in Montreal, Canada. He works with family clients as a facilitator and sometimes as a mediator. He also does individual coaching with family members. Steve holds advanced certificates in Family Business and Family Wealth Advising from FFI.

We all know that we age—but do we know exactly how, and why? And is it possible to slow the process so you can live well, for longer? This book discusses these questions and more. Medical doctor and polymath scientist Kris Verburgh illuminates the biological mechanisms that make our bodies susceptible to heart attacks, strokes, dementia, diabetes, and other aging-related diseases.

Kris Verburgh, MD, is the opening keynote at the 2019 FFI Global Conference in Miami. He is a researcher at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies and a member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group at the Free University of Brussels. Dr. Verburgh’s fields of research are aging, nutrition, metabolism, preventive medicine and health. In this context, he has created a new scientific discipline, called “nutrigerontology,” which studies the impact of nutrition on the aging process and aging-related diseases.

In this book, the authors explore the concept of family champions –a family owner who acts as a catalyst to help other family members become more effective. Clear examples, practical tips, and specific advice to start working on championship elements with your family enterprise clients are provided.

Joshua Nacht is a consultant with The Family Business Consulting Group. He earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Systems with a focus on family-enterprise from Saybrook University. His dissertation research, “The Role of the Family Champion,” won the Best Dissertation Award from the Family Firm Institute in 2016.

Gregory Greenleaf is a principal consultant with The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. Greg is an expert on succession, governance, and professionalization of the family business.

Ismael Cala uses the metaphor of the piñata to address the attitudes we take to the events that have marked our lives, both positive and negative. This book explores the ways you see life, your world, your ideals, your paradigms, and your sense of purpose. The piñata, like life, is full of unpredictable situations, but you decide how to react to them.

Ismael Cala is the closing keynote present at the FFI Global Conference in Miami. He is a life and business strategist and former host of “Cala,” a prime time show on CNN en Español, for more than 5 years. He is president and founder of Cala Enterprises Corporation and Ismael Cala Foundation.

Prepared in association with STEP, this new edition of Family Offices features updated chapters from key players in the field.

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