Voice of African Family Business with AFF

Between 6 April 2020 and 27 April 2020, AFF held FB 21 - a virtual global family business conference with 86 contributors from all over the world. The theme was "Reinventing and Rebooting Family Businesses", aimed to bring positive tools to help you through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Isabel C. Botero, Ph.D., is the Director of the Family Business Center and an associate professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Louisville. She is a Fellow for the Family Firm Institute and has an Advanced Certificate in Family Wealth Advising. Her research focuses on strategic communication processes and next-generation issues in family enterprises.

She is an associate editor for the journal of family business strategy. She is a past FOBI Scholar and has over 40 publications in journals such as Family Business Review, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Journal of Family Business Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Management Communication Quarterly.

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Between 6 April 2020 and 27 April 2020, AFF held FB 21 - a virtual global family business conference with 86 contributors from all over the world. The theme was "Reinventing and Rebooting Family Businesses", aimed to bring positive tools to help you through the COVID-19 pandemic. Steve Legler and our co-founder TsiTsi Mutendi had a discussion on the role of the family in this hour.

Steve Legler is a Family Legacy Advisor based in Montreal, Canada.  He grew up in a business family, destined to take over the company his father had founded before he was born.  After an unexpected liquidity event that occurred while he was still in his 20’s, he ended up managing their family office instead.  He also married into a business family, where he has witnessed a number of other complex issues.

In 2013 he stumbled upon the Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA) program in Canada, which turned in to career-changing calling for him.  Since then, he has been working with other business families as they face the challenges surrounding their intergenerational transitions.

He works with family clients as a facilitator, and sometimes as a mediator. He also does individual coaching with family members. He recognizes how complex the world of family wealth transitions can be, and prides himself on knowing how to be a great resource for his clients.

He is the author of SHIFT your Family Business (2014) and Interdependent Wealth: How Family Systems Theory Illuminates Successful Intergenerational Wealth Transitions (2019)

He is active in many associations for professionals who work with families; a member of the FEA Council of the Family Enterprise Exchange (FEX); a member of the Wisdom Expedition of the Purposeful Planning Institute (PPI); and a member of the faculty of the Family Firm Institute (FFI) global education network (GEN) program. Steve can be found here.

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Between 6 April 2020 and 27 April 2020, AFF held FB 21 - a virtual global family business conference with 86 contributors from all over the world. The theme was "Reinventing and Rebooting Family Businesses", aimed to bring positive tools to help you through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ian Marsh worked with business families for more than 40 years, first as adviser and litigator, later as trustee and confidant, and then as mediator and facilitator.

During that time, he became fascinated by why smart, well educated, well-meaning people who love one another often find it so hard to talk about the things that matter most to them (and, if they can’t, what hope is there for the rest of us?).

Today, he writes and speaks about the need for effective face-to-face conversation not simply so that we are heard, but also for our individual wellbeing and as a key tool in building cohesive communities in an increasingly polarised world. He also teaches speaking and listening skills wherever he can and promotes the teaching of oracy in our schools.

Ian’s book, “If it is so Good to Talk, Why is it so Hard?” brings together the latest neuroscience, ancient wisdom and his own experience and, through a series of guided reflections, shows how we can rediscover the power of conversation.

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Between 6 April 2020 and 27 April 2020, AFF held FB 21 - a virtual global family business conference with 86 conntributors from all over the world. The theme was "Reinventing and Rebooting Family Businesses", aimed to bring positive tools to help you through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mitzi Perdue is the daughter of one family business titan (her father founded the Sheraton Hotel Chain) and the widow of another, (her late husband was the family business poultry magnate, Frank Perdue), and she is also a businesswoman in her own right. She started the family wine grape business, now one of the larger suppliers of wine grapes in California. Mitzi likes nothing better than to share insider tips for successful family businesses. Her family of origin (the one that started the Sheraton Hotels) began with the family business, Henderson Estate Company, in 1840, and her Perdue family started in 1920 in the poultry business. These two families have a combined tradition of 276 years of staying together as a family. Mitzi is happy to share actionable advice on how they created and maintained their family businesses.

Mitzi speaks on how to make your family business last across the generations, and she also talks about success tips from mega-successful people. She can be found at www.mitziperdue.com.

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Between 6 April 2020 and 27 April 2020, AFF held "FB 21" - a virtual global family business conference with 86 contributors from all over the world. The theme was "Reinventing and Rebooting Family Businesses", aimed to bring positive tools to help you through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rachel Adams, a leadership expert, CEO of Narachi leadership, spoke on "Finding your leadership voice during tumultous times".

Rachel Adams is a leadership specialist who works with others to find their path of authentic power and courageous self and people leadership. She believes that this journey begins with the pursuit of deepened self-awareness. In her own life, Rachel has travelled the path she now walks with others through her consultancy, Narachi Leadership. As such, she brings a vulnerability and connectedness to her interventions, creating a safe space for the people she works with. She can be found on social media on @narachileadership or at www.narachileadership.com.

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From 6 April 2020 we are launching a free meeting place where Family Businesses can come together and learn from the best minds on how to re-invent and reboot your business during and beyond COVID 2020. Over 21 days we aim to bring the world's foremost leaders and experts in one place to share with Family Businesses in 1 continuous 21-day online conference.
Giving you critical Advice, Tools and Resources for
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity during and after the COVID-20 pandemic!
Think of this as your Disaster Recovery Plan and your Business Continuity Plan all in one place. But with a rock start line up of leaders and experts from across the globe.
The scope of speakers is not only focused on your Family Business operations but also on the critical Mental Health issues that have affected all of us during this difficult time.

To register please visit
www.africanfamilyfirms.org/fb21global

The sustainability of agribusinesses is critical to the welfare of the African continent at large during this COVID-19 pandemic.

How do we ensure that COVID-19 does not lead to a hunger crisis? How should agribusiness owners be positioning their businesses to ensure they survive through this season and beyond.

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Coronavirus has swept across the world. Its caused a lot of economic issues for countries across the globe and the most hard hit are the family businesses. Join our two co-founders TsiTsi Mutendi and Nike Anani discussing the impact of the crisis on the continent and family businesses.

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