Natalie McVeigh shares on Resilience looking at both individuals and organisations and the difference particularly looking at anti-fragility.  

About: Natalie McVeigh is a Director in the Center for Individual and Organizational Performance and the Center for Family Business Excellence Group within the Private Business Services Practice, with more than 10 years of experience as a consultant and coach. She has expertise in domestic and international multinational corporations both public and private, and family owned businesses. Natalie’s role at the firm is working with high-net-worth families to help them reach their personal and professional goals and to assist with the transition issues.

Natalie’s expertise is in complex conflict resolution, with a certificate in mediation, specializing in interest based negotiation trained at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. She has specialized experience in building and developing cohesive teams through utilizing assessments and creating training curricula. Natalie also has expertise in team building, administering and analyzing assessment data, management consulting, developing teams and leaders, board and governance, project management, facilitation, training, systems theory and coaching.

Prior to joining the firm, Natalie was a Family Dynamics Consultant for a private bank and supported ultra-high net worth clients navigating family enterprise transitions and governance structures. She also owned her own consulting and coaching firm that served enterprising families.

Natalie is a frequent speaker on topics of family dynamics, the neuroscience of trust, emotional intelligence, and she is recognized both nationally and internationally. Natalie is involved with various organizations and is the Chairperson for the Family Firm Institute’s Next GEN Virtual Study Group. She is on the faculty at the New York Banker’s Association Trust School, an Adjunct Professor and course developer. Additionally, Natalie is an Americorps alumni.

Mary Duke shares on Learning Families

About: Mary’s experience spans a breadth of family wealth disciplines. She is an expert in cross-border and inter-generational transfer of wealth strategies, fiduciary practices, next generation mentoring, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, family office architecture and succession planning and governance for families and their businesses.

​As a family office executive, attorney, board member, trustee and advisor on private investments, she has been involved in all aspects of family wealth management. During 9 years with a global private bank, Mary spearheaded an award winning Global Family Wealth Initiative and worked with many of the institution’s largest and most sophisticated families helping navigate the challenges of successfully transitioning wealth across generations.

​Today, Mary works with a small number of families helping them leverage their wealth as a tool for family flourishing and social good. She focuses on empowering the next generation to recognize, receive and steward the family legacy, and on helping families adopt the practices and behaviors that foster individual growth while making family collaboration more effective and rewarding.

Mary is an author and international speaker, often quoted on topics relating to family wealth transition. She has conducted next generation and family retreats in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and the United States.

Dr. Marc Silverman shares on Getting over hurt feelings - My Brother left the family business now noone talks to him - Do hurts Repeat Generationally

About: Dr. Silverman has worked with numerous families in South America, Central America and North America as well as in Europe. ... He has presented over 100 Keynotes and Seminars in more than 15 countries on a variety of topics including Family Business Leadership, Succession, Conflict Resolution, Generational Needs and Change.

Malcolm Burrows shares on Philanthropy and Governance, the marriage that works well when done intentionally.

About: Malcolm Burrows is a known philanthropic advisor and gift planner. He spent 13 years with three Toronto charities before assuming his current role For over 30 years, his personal mission has been to help individuals and families to become more engaged,fulfilled and effective philanthropists.

Leah Zveglich shares on Living together during and after COVID, Separating business and Family

About: Leah Zveglich is a trusted advisor and executive coach on succession, successor development, and leadership transition. She founded the Aster Club, a community of business families to connect, collaborate and build a sustainable family heritage. It is the only private global club focusing on learning and prevention building the human and intellectual capital.

Kathleen O'Hara shares on Trauma, how it can create an identity and affect our futures. 

About: Kathleen O’Hara, MA, LPC is an author and international psychotherapist with over 24 years of experience helping families and individuals face the complex challenges of life in the 21st century.  She is a trusted adviser to clients requiring exceptional care and tailored solutions to complex counselling and crisis issues. This includes: Relationship (to self and others), trauma, self-esteem, confidence, communications, divorce anxiety, depression, illness, addiction and crisis management, caused by a sudden event that has catastrophic consequences.

During her years of extensive clinical experience, she developed a unique model of treatment using the principle of Integrated Health, which recognizes there are four areas of human health: Mental, emotional, physical, and our beliefs, in terms of spiritual, religious or humanistic.  When our thinking, our feelings, our health or our beliefs are in conflict, out of balance or not serving us, we lose valuable resources we need to create and live happier, more whole and fulfilling lives.

Jim Coutre shares on Why relevancy is important for Families of wealth and their and Family Offices. 

About: Jim Coutre is Vice President, Insights and Connections at Fidelity Family Office Services

Dunia Guzman shares on Communication in Family Business. We may be different but most families have the same needs.

About: Dunia Guzman is a lead consultant at Akator Consultores. Akator Consultores is a family owned consulting firm, specializing in Family Enterprise and Family Office. With more that 35 years of experience, we help our clients sharing our knowledge and talking them through the opportunities and challenges of their desires and decisions. Succession, Communication, Protocols, Vision, Mission, Advisory Board, Family Council, Family Office, Coaching, Mentoring, and Education are the main topics that we are looked after for, among others.

Dr Paul Hokemeyer shares on Fragile Power

About: Dr. Paul L. Hokemeyer (Dr. Paul) is an internationally renowned clinical and consulting psychotherapist, and a founding principal of Drayson Mews International, who works with individuals and families in the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and the European Union.

Dr Nadine Kammelander shares on Innovation in Family Firms and the role of the Next Gens to drive this phase 

About: Professor Dr. Nadine Kammerlander has been a professor at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management since 2015. Prior to that she was an assistant professor at the University of St. Gallen. Nadine Kammerlander holds a degree in physics (TU Munich) and a doctorate in business administration (Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg). For several years she worked for McKinsey & Company and advised international companies in the automotive and semiconductor industries on product development projects, mainly in the USA and Mexico.