Master Class
The FBNPA Regional Summit provides important insights into the wide range of challenges faced by family businesses. The FBNPA Master Class following the Summit is designed for family teams to help them explore how best to move forward and effectively benefit from the insights gained throughout the Summit. Research in how families learn has shown that they require a platform for key family members to come together to share learnings and exchange views, in addition to careful and pragmatic guidance highlighting key issues.
Programme Overview
This Master Class will be conducted by Professor Dr Joachim Schwass, one of the most respected experts in the field of family business. Firstly, the key learnings from the Summit will be captured and their relevance explored for the participants. Subsequently, short cases of award-winning leading family businesses will be used as a working base for family teams to focus on the key issues of:
- Strategy
- Governance
- Succession
- Communication
Roundtable and plenary discussions will flag the challenges and opportunities faced by the participating family teams and help develop frameworks and solutions. Lessons from dynastic and global leading family businesses will indicate how best to move forward in an effective, practical and integrative way.
Learning Objectives
- Conduct an overall Family Business ‘Health-check’ – Are we doing the right things and are we doing things right?
- Learn from dynastic family businesses about strategies and governance structures.
- Allow for diverse family members to gain a better perspective of family, ownership and business issues by providing an intensive, shared learning and discussion platform
- Develop a Personalised Framework
Who Should Attend
Participants are encouraged to attend as family teams, ideally from different generations. This will enhance a shared understanding and identification of issues, and ideas on how to best move forward. The learning methodology is based on over 20 years of meaningful research and pragmatic education of many of the world's leading privately and family owned businesses and family offices.
| From 8.30 am | Coffee and Registration |
| 9.00 am | Key Lessons from the Summit and the Fundamental Issues of Family Owned Businesses |
| 10.30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 am | Strategies for Family, Ownership and Business |
| 12.30 am | Lunch |
| 1.30 pm | Governance for Family and Business |
| 3.00 pm | Break |
| 3.30 pm | Round Table: How to Move Forward |
Faculty
Professor Dr Joachim Schwass
Professor, Family Business and Entrepreneurship
International
Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland
. Professor Dr Joachim Schwass is Director of the IMD Programme ‘Leading the Family Business’ His teaching focus is owner related issues, in particular, the next generation perspective. He has lectured and conducted family business programmes around the globe.
Before joining IMD in 1992, he was Managing Director of several companies which were part of his family's business. He attended graduate studies at Technische Universität Berlin and Université de Fribourg where he obtained a Lic.rer.pol. and a Dr.rer.pol. Professor Schwass has published numerous articles. His book ‘Wise Growth Strategies in Leading Family Businesses’ was published in 2005 and translated in German and Spanish. It will be published in Chinese in 2010.
He directed the Annual Distinguished Family Business Award. He was Executive Director of Family Business Network for 10 years and currently serves on the board.
Supporting Facilitators
Law Gin Kye
Executive Director, Family Capital Centre, Malaysia
Gin Kye holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A 2nd generation family business member, his passion for finding effective solutions to family business challenges led him to research extensively on family business issues and management resulting in the co-founding of Family Capital Centre. He serves as a facilitator at Elijah House Ministries, focused on bringing restoration and reconciliation of families. He also founded Yellow House Society, a non-profit organisation mentoring youth at risk.
Johnben Loy (PhD)
Marriage & Family Therapist, Taylors University College, Malaysia
Johnben Loy (PhD) is a US-licensed marriage and family therapist. He is a second generation family business member who holds an MBA from Cambridge University, an MTS (Counseling) from Tyndale Seminary, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota. For his PhD dissertation, Johnben developed a grounded theory of Malaysian Chinese family firms entitled Dynasting Across Cultures. In addition to his clinical work as a marriage and family therapist, Johnben holds an academic research position at Taylor’s University College (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) where he conducts research on Asian family firms.
