Featuring FFI Authors

Prepared Exclusively for FFI Members

July 29, 2022

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e are pleased to feature recent book releases and report publications from FFI members. Please help us continue this periodic feature by letting us know about books and reports we might have missed.

Consultation to Family Business Enterprises: An International Perspective (Springer Nature, 2021) by Florence W. Kaslow and Lilli Friedland

This book explores the varied and complex world of family enterprises as they now exist. With explorations of a new model featuring eight inter-related business domains, coverage of research-based assessment instruments, techniques of consulting, and discussions of working collaboratively with financial and legal professionals, the book is a primer on the skills and tools necessary to be and become a family business consultant.

Florence W. Kaslow
FFI Fellow

Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified psychologist, business advisor, and is currently adjunct professor of medical psychology at Duke University Medical School. Dr. Kaslow consults nationally and internationally to businesses, mental health and social agencies, educational institutions, and law firms.

Lilli Friedland
CFBA

Lilli Friedland, PhD, ABPP, is a nationally recognized executive coach and leadership expert. She has been advising publicly- and privately-held companies, family businesses, professional service firms, and high-net worth families for more than twenty-five years.

Enabling Next Generation Families: 35 Questions that Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask (Family Enterprise Knowledge Hub Publishing, 2022) by Peter Jaskiewicz and Sabine B. Rau

Leading academics, practitioners, and enterprising families come together to answer the most pressing thirty-five questions of next generation members. The authors share best practices, real-life examples, and critical questions for reflection.

Peter Jaskiewicz
FFI Fellow
FBR Associate Editor

Peter Jaskiewicz, PhD, FFI Fellow, is a family enterprise advisor and a full professor of family business at the Telfer School of Management in Ottawa, where he holds a University Research Chair and is the Academic Director of the Family Enterprise Legacy Institute. He is an associate editor of the Family Business Review.

Sabine B. Rau

Sabine B. Rau, PhD, is an expert on moderating succession processes and co-creating family constitutions (also called family protocols). She holds visiting professorships at the Telfer School of Management (University of Ottawa) and at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin, and she also teaches at the Université de Luxembourg.

Entrepreneurial Family Business: From Survival to Success (Kendall Hunt, August 2022) by Dianne H.B. Welsh

Entrepreneurial Family Business: From Survival to Success is a comprehensive look at the impactful elements surrounding family business and entrepreneurship throughout time. The book focuses on the role of innovation in the development and longevity of Boyt^®, which began in 1901 as a horse and animal equipment company, evolved into Boyt^® Division Welsh Sporting Goods, and is now in its next phase and ownership.

Dianne H.B. Welsh
FFI Fellow
2019 Barbara Hollander Award
Best Dissertation Award committee chair

Dianne H.B. Welsh, FFI Fellow, is the Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and the founder of the entrepreneurship programs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has founded two entrepreneurship programs and centers and has held three endowed professorships above a full professor. Her research includes 116 refereed journal articles. She is the recipient of the 2019 FFI Barbara Hollander Award.

Learning to Be a Leatherman: A Rite of Passage (TBM Books, July 2022) by Roderick W. Correll

Learning to Be a Leatherman begins as a coming-of-age story focused on a voyage the author took overseas to Europe when he was seventeen years old. Arranged by his father, this trip was meant to teach him how to tan leather, to participate in the business his grandfather founded, and, by design or inadvertently, to spread his wings. The book explores his relationship with his father and the world of work his dad carved out for him.

Roderick W. Correll
FFI Fellow

Roderick W. Correll, FFI Fellow, was a leatherman, a third-generation leader of a family business, a consultant to family businesses, and a founder of the Family Firm Institute. He succeeded Barbara Hollander as FFI’s executive director.

PwC’s Global NextGen Survey 2022 by Peter Englisch, Andrea Baars, and Cydnee Griffin

PwC’s Global NextGen Survey 2022, the most extensive survey of the next generation of family business leaders that PwC has ever conducted, shows how global threats have united the generations around a common goal: driving growth to secure the stability of the business and the family.

Peter Englisch
CFBA/CFWA
FFI board member

Peter Englisch is Global Family Business and EMEA Entrepreneurial and Private Business Leader, Partner, at PwC Germany.

Andrea Baars
ACFBA/ACFWA

Andrea Baars is NextGen Program Lead at PwC Germany.

Cydnee Griffin
CFBA/CFWA

Cydnee Griffin is NextGen and Family Business Program Manager at PwC United States.

The Quest for Legitimacy: How Children of Prominent Families Discover Their Unique Place in the World (Wiley, July 2022) by Jamie Weiner

In The Quest for Legitimacy: How Children of Prominent Families Discover Their Unique Place in the World, family and private wealth consultant Dr. James Weiner relies on qualitative research conducted on wealthy families to discuss the rising generation’s quest for self-determination in the shadow of a larger-than-life family.

Jamie Weiner
FFI Fellow

Jamie Weiner, FFI Fellow, is co-founder of Inheriting Wisdom, working with high-net-worth families on all the problems that exist behind their money. He is focused on helping families garner meaningful communication between generations and provide solutions to sustaining wealth and strengthening family legacies. Jamie is a former member of the FFI board of directors and former editor of FFI Practitioner.

Previous Edition

The FFI Board of Directors provides strategic vision and oversight for the development of the organization. Over the past few months, the 2022 Nominating Committee has solicited suggestions for nominees, and interviews with potential candidates have been held. The Committee is pleased to announce the following nominees for four-year terms on the FFI Board of Directors. Voting will be conducted by electronic ballot, which will be sent to FFI members in September. New board members will take office following the annual meeting, which will be held virtually on November 9 at 9:00am Eastern Time.