SPEAKER

Josh Baron, BanyanGlobal

Finding the Goldilocks Zone: Managing Conflict in a Family Enterprise

Mixing family dynamics and ownership of shared assets is a potent combination. Working together, certain families have produced the world's greatest business success stories. Others have generated headlines of a very different kind, finding themselves in conflicts that have destroyed assets, relationships, or both.

Josh will discuss where conflicts come from in family enterprises, and how they are different from non-family enterprises. He will also explore the dangers of avoiding conflict, which can bring down a family enterprise just as disastrously as excessive fighting. And we will talk about crises, which reflect families sitting on the brink of a breakdown: what causes them, how to get out of them, and how to avoid them.

Josh will conclude by sharing five practical, concrete strategies for managing conflict in a family enterprise.

Speaker Bio

Josh Baron is a co-founder and Partner at BanyanGlobal. For the last decade, he has worked closely with families who own assets together, such as operating companies, family foundations, and family offices. Josh helps these families to define their purpose as owners and to establish the structures, strategies, and skills they need to accomplish their goals. Josh is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, where he teaches a class called "Managing Conflict in Family Business." Josh has written extensively for Harvard Business Review, and also written for The Huffington Post, Trust & Estates Magazine, and Family Business Magazine.

Event Details

Monday, May 9, 2022
1:15 pm Sign-in
1:30–4:30 pm Workshop

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