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Friday, November 13
The Unrelenting Optimist: Inheriting a Legacy and Choosing What to Do With It
The Unrelenting Optimist: Inheriting a Legacy and Choosing What to Do With It
Keynote:
Jessica Goldman Srebnick
What does it mean to inherit a legacy — and then make it your own? Drawing on her journey and the Goldman family story, Jessica Goldman Srebnick shares lessons on carrying a family legacy forward: honoring what came before, embracing change, and building something meaningful for the next generation.
What does it mean to inherit a legacy — and then make it your own? Drawing on her journey and the Goldman family story, Jessica Goldman Srebnick shares lessons on carrying a family legacy forward: honoring what came before, embracing change, and building something meaningful for the next generation.
Under her leadership, the Wynwood Walls Museum has become the Olympics of street art, elevating the genre and providing a global stage where the world's artists come to create. In a candid conversation about family, leadership, creativity, and Wynwood's evolution, Jessica explores how an unrelenting belief in what's possible can transform not only places, but the people and communities who shape them.
Under her leadership, the Wynwood Walls Museum has become the Olympics of street art, elevating the genre and providing a global stage where the world's artists come to create. In a candid conversation about family, leadership, creativity, and Wynwood's evolution, Jessica explores how an unrelenting belief in what's possible can transform not only places, but the people and communities who shape them.
The First-Generation Mindset: Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
The First-Generation Mindset: Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Miguel Lopez de Silanes
How can families pass on not only wealth and opportunity, but also the drive to create, contribute, and build something of one's own?
How can families pass on not only wealth and opportunity, but also the drive to create, contribute, and build something of one's own?
Drawing on examples from around the world, this session explores how families can nurture entrepreneurial ambition and a sense of purpose in rising generations while avoiding the complacency that can accompany inherited success. We will examine the experiences, choices, and family practices that help younger generations develop agency, resilience, curiosity, and the motivation to forge their own paths.
Drawing on examples from around the world, this session explores how families can nurture entrepreneurial ambition and a sense of purpose in rising generations while avoiding the complacency that can accompany inherited success. We will examine the experiences, choices, and family practices that help younger generations develop agency, resilience, curiosity, and the motivation to forge their own paths.
At its heart is a challenge for every multigenerational family: How can each generation approach its opportunities with a first-generation mindset?
At its heart is a challenge for every multigenerational family: How can each generation approach its opportunities with a first-generation mindset?
The Emotional Cost of Family Business Ownership
The Emotional Cost of Family Business Ownership
Andrew Keyt
Being part of a family enterprise can be a profound privilege, but it also brings unique emotional pressures. The same forces that bind families together — shared identity, loyalty, and interdependence — can strain relationships, blur boundaries, and take a personal toll on family members across generations.
Being part of a family enterprise can be a profound privilege, but it also brings unique emotional pressures. The same forces that bind families together — shared identity, loyalty, and interdependence — can strain relationships, blur boundaries, and take a personal toll on family members across generations.
Drawing on three decades of advising family enterprises, Andrew Keyt explores the psychological dynamics that shape business families and the practical steps families can take to become healthier, more connected, and more resilient. The session will examine how families can manage the stress of ownership, strengthen communication, navigate work-life boundaries, and better prepare rising-generation members to develop their own identity and lead with confidence and purpose.
Drawing on three decades of advising family enterprises, Andrew Keyt explores the psychological dynamics that shape business families and the practical steps families can take to become healthier, more connected, and more resilient. The session will examine how families can manage the stress of ownership, strengthen communication, navigate work-life boundaries, and better prepare rising-generation members to develop their own identity and lead with confidence and purpose.
Bringing Governance to Life
Bringing Governance to Life
Cristina Carvajal, Isabel Carvajal
Family governance creates value not through structures and agreements alone, but through the way families bring them to life. Family councils can play a particularly powerful role — creating intentional spaces for family members to learn, communicate, strengthen relationships, and develop a shared sense of responsibility for the future.
Family governance creates value not through structures and agreements alone, but through the way families bring them to life. Family councils can play a particularly powerful role — creating intentional spaces for family members to learn, communicate, strengthen relationships, and develop a shared sense of responsibility for the future.
Drawing on their experience as fourth- and fifth-generation members of the Carvajal family — and their successive leadership of its Family Council — Cristina and Isabel will explore how governance can become a living system for engagement across generations. They will share practical insights on designing meaningful family gatherings, preparing responsible owners, fostering intergenerational dialogue, and adapting governance as the family and the enterprise evolve.
Drawing on their experience as fourth- and fifth-generation members of the Carvajal family — and their successive leadership of its Family Council — Cristina and Isabel will explore how governance can become a living system for engagement across generations. They will share practical insights on designing meaningful family gatherings, preparing responsible owners, fostering intergenerational dialogue, and adapting governance as the family and the enterprise evolve.
At its best, governance is more than a framework for making decisions. It can strengthen belonging, build trust, and help a family carry its values and legacy from one generation to the next.
At its best, governance is more than a framework for making decisions. It can strengthen belonging, build trust, and help a family carry its values and legacy from one generation to the next.
WORKSHOP: How to Build Unshakable Trust
WORKSHOP: How to Build Unshakable Trust
Andrew Sykes
Every leader leaves behind a story, and trust is one of the foundations on which lasting legacies are built. Yet amid competing priorities, constant demands, and complex relationships, trust can be difficult to build and easy to erode.
Every leader leaves behind a story, and trust is one of the foundations on which lasting legacies are built. Yet amid competing priorities, constant demands, and complex relationships, trust can be difficult to build and easy to erode.
In this interactive workshop, Andrew Sykes explores how leaders can intentionally strengthen trust through the way they show up, communicate, and act. Drawing on his framework of Identity, Conversation, and Habit Trust, participants will examine the behaviors and choices that shape credibility, deepen relationships, and enable others to flourish. The session offers practical tools for building a trustworthy reputation today — and creating a leadership legacy that endures well beyond any individual role or generation.
In this interactive workshop, Andrew Sykes explores how leaders can intentionally strengthen trust through the way they show up, communicate, and act. Drawing on his framework of Identity, Conversation, and Habit Trust, participants will examine the behaviors and choices that shape credibility, deepen relationships, and enable others to flourish. The session offers practical tools for building a trustworthy reputation today — and creating a leadership legacy that endures well beyond any individual role or generation.
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