The 2023 FFI Conference is taking place in the theater capital of the world, so let’s take advantage!
 Join FFI for an afternoon at The Shed, one of New York City’s newest and most innovative cultural venues, located just a 15-minute walk from the Marriott Marquis.

While overlooking the Vessel and newly developed Hudson Yards area of Manhattan, participants will have the opportunity to chat with a panel of theater practitioners about their unique approaches to making art. Together, participants will draw parallels between how both artists and advisors work creatively to solve complex problems, collaborate with others, and apply interdisciplinary thinking.

We are in the next new normal for family offices. More than $15 trillion will transition by 2030 and many of those assets are in family offices globally. That means we want to ensure that the vehicle preserving the family wealth is ready, able, and agile. We will go over some strategies to enhance the family office structural and human capital as well as getting your client’s family office ready for the future. You will hear from experts in the changing dynamics of the family, cybersecurity, tax strategies to enhance the family’s wealth, and family office outsourced solutions. Come with your questions for this riveting discussion.

Sustaining a family office takes more than just financial success. It also requires developing a sense of ownership (rather than a client-mindset) within the family for the governance and direction of the family office. Yet, very often, structural solutions are used to hold the family together and tied to the family office.  However, real cohesion is built around relationships and meaningful connections.  Tending to building relationships across generations is therefore paramount for the continuity of the family and the family office.  Explore how to unlock the potential of the Single Family Office in today’s fast-paced world, and the importance of empowering the rising generation of family leaders by sharing information, instilling a sense of responsibility, learning together across generations, and cultivating a clear purpose beyond financial returns.

In times of disruption, we can either be hit by the wave, harness the wave, or create the wave. Given that family enterprises comprise an estimated 50%-80% of global GDP, there is a significant opportunity to “create the wave” and impact the current global environment. In his new approach, Systemic Investing, Jason Jay expands John Davis’s classic Three-Circle Model and gives case examples of how systemic investing is creating waves for family enterprises and their advisors and is impacting the world.

Jason Jay, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2023 FFI Scholar-in-Residence

Independent historian Barnet Schecter will present a richly illustrated, in-depth exploration of New York City through space and time–all the way down to the bedrock. With a focus on the city’s family enterprises, fiercely competitive environment, and contested terrain, he will survey its history, from Dutch settlement, English conquest, and American independence, through civil war, world wars, pandemics, and global warming. Finally, his keynote will look to the future and the prospects for family firms (and everyone else) in an urban archipelago amidst rising seas.

Barnet Schecter, Barnet Schecter Historical Consulting, LLC

Dr. Grace Lordan is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative and an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. An economist and a labor market skills expert, Grace focuses her research on inclusive leadership, women’s progress in the workplace, the future of work, productivity through diversity, and individual success. Grace served as an expert advisor to the UK government sitting on their skills and productivity board, is currently a member of the UK government’s BEIS social mobility taskforce, and is on the Women in Finance Charter’s advisory board. 

Grace Lordan, Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative and Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science