COURSE
Introduction to
Family Governance
Foundational family governance knowledge for the Cardwell family
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The Family Enterprise Governance module provides family owners and stewards with a comprehensive overview of how governance enables families to manage complexity, sustain unity, and ensure long-term success. It begins by defining governance as the system that creates clarity in decision-making, fosters accountability, and balances the needs of family, business, and ownership. As families grow across generations, governance becomes essential to counter forces that pull them apart, such as branch mentality, diverging financial interests, and geographical distance, by offering tools like family councils, shareholder agreements, and structured communication.
The customized module for the Cardwell family focuses on family governance: we will discuss how family governance structures and processes, including family meetings, family councils, and family policies, help with building unity, providing education, nurturing a shared purpose, aligning expectations, and clarifying rights and responsibilities.
Joe
Astrachan
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Generation6
Andrew
Keyt
Founder and Board Member of Generation6
Claudia
Binz Astrachan
Head of Governance Practice and Advisor of Generation6

