Family Office Conference at LBS
The next Family Office Conference is taking place between 20-21 February 2024.

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Family Offices (FOs) have grown exponentially over the last decades and today represent an important priority for many business families.
London Business School (LBS) has leveraged its London location, thought leadership, world-class faculty, and extensive network to organise a unique non-commercial event addressed to a select group of single-family office principals and the families that they support.
The conference brings together principals and senior executives in a confidential setting without interference from service providers or entities with commercial interests. Participants will be exposed to leading academic and practitioner insights and will engage in joint learning and network building. The first Family Office Conference at LBS, organised by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital, took place in February 2023 and covered a wide array of timely topics relevant to business families from addressing their positioning in today´s society, family dynamics and governance to investment related themes.
The programme for the conference has been generously guided by a steering group comprising of single-family offices and multi-generational business owning families. With thanks for the generous support of the following families and single-family offices in developing our conference programme: Alex Scott, Pentland Group, Mary Oppenheimer Daughters, CP Holdings, Ordway Selections, Grosvenor Family Office, Wates Family Office, Hambleden Capital and Cayzer Trust Company.
Safe space environment - We are committed to deliver an environment where participants can meet other families and explore innovative ideas without the distractions of service providers*.
Interactive and collaborative space - We will create an interactive and collaborative space for participants. Short panel discussions will be followed by structured and spontaneous small group discussions, ensuring the active participation of all.
Thought leadership - We will include practitioner talks and insights shared by LBS faculty working at the forefront of global business research and providing leading academic expertise.
Knowledge sharing - We will enable facilitated conversations where participants can share their experiences and discuss solutions to common problems. Facilitators will provide summary write ups after the conference.
Networking - We will provide wide opportunities throughout the day to network with your peers from other Family Offices.
*Disclaimer: The upcoming conference is sponsored by Schroders, a global family office and private asset investment specialist. Schroders will participate in a supporting and non-commercial capacity.
Admission is reserved for family members, principals of single-family offices and senior family office leadership (CEO, CFO, COO).
Due to the nature of our event, applicants who provide advisory services, raise capital or work for an entity that provides a service/product to wealthy individuals will not be admitted.
Register your interest now to benefit from an Early Bird discount of 10% until the 20th of December
This is an invitation only, paid event with General Admission tickets costing £975. A ten percent discount is offered to LBS students and alumni.
Lessons learned at the LBS Family Office Conference 2023
On the initial day, leading academics and practitioners will share insights and hypotheses, leading to facilitated roundtable discussions where participants exchange their experiences and perspectives. This knowledge will be systematically captured and disseminated both spontaneously and through summarized proceedings.
Please see a preliminary agenda below:
Registration and breakfast
Opening remarks
Welcome remarks from Event Supporter
Keynote: Happiness – the special sauce for every Family Enterprise
Roundtable discussion and debrief
Coffee break and networking
Session 1 | Navigating the Future: Investing in a Changing World - A Review of the Global Macro-Economic and Geo-Political Landscape
Session 1 Roundtable discussion and debrief
Session 2 | Next generation
Session 2 Roundtable discussion and debrief
Lunch
Session 3 | Sustainability Strategies for Family Businesses: Exploring the Intersection of Family Enterprise and Environmental Sustainability
Session 3 Roundtable discussion and debrief
Keynote: Ena Inesi, Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Coffee break and networking
Session 4 | Succession planning (governance)
Roundtable discussion and debrief
Keynote: Navigating the Global Landscape
Day debrief
Networking reception and canapés
The roundtables will be moderated by a selection of expert facilitators.
The second day will offer a combination of moderated sessions and participants will have the chance to engage with a diverse range of topics through our four set main sessions. These main sessions, include discussions on
The sessions will be scheduled to run concurrently with the option for attendees to select a breakout group on another topic of their choice. This format allows for a personalized and enriching conference experience, ensuring that participants can tailor their agenda to their specific interests.
Registration and breakfast
Opening remarks
Session 1: Selection of PE fund Managers
Introduction to the breakout sessions
Breakout session one
Coffee break and networking
Breakout session two
Keynote: Disabilities and competitive advantage
Session 3: Impact investing panel
Lunch
Associate Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and the Academic Director of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital
Chief Investment Officer, Almunajem Group and Founding Partner, Investors Capital
Owner and Chair, Ferd
Founder and Principal, Willows Investments UK
Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School
Guest Lecturer, London Business School
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Business Coach and Leadership Advisor
Managing Partner, Hampden Advisory
CFA Investment Principal, Aureum Advisory Limited
Assistant Professor of Finance
Professor of Finance, London Business School
Managing Director, Merifin Capital
Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Real estate
CIO, Keystone Group, L.P.
Investment Strategy, Countryman Investments
Investment Principal, Pentland Group
Chairman, Schroders Family Office Service and Joint Life President, The Institute for Family Business (UK)
Professor of Accounting; Chair, Accounting Faculty; Academic Director, Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital
Chairman of the Wates Group
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Franz Haniel Ltd., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Haniel Foundation, Chaiman of the Advisory Board of the Family Office Hanitax
CBE, Senior Adviser, PGIM Wadhwani
Family member, Founder & CEO at Clyx
Chairman and CEO, Mirai Capital Partners
Family member; Principal, Apax Digital
The conference highlighted the need for long-term thinking, purposeful stewardship, the need to distinguish between areas where specialist knowledge would be an advantage, and areas where they should be content to take a general approach and move along with the market.
The IEPC supports the development of entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ideas that drive impact, create wealth and advance well-being. The IEPC also conducts research underpinning today’s private capital markets including venture capital, private equity, growth, buyouts, and the broader private capital ecosystem.
A central ambition of the IEPC is to grow our family enterprise linked research, teaching, and events programmes. For us family enterprise covers the full family ownership spectrum, bringing together business owning families with those managing their own single-family offices. We believe the IEPC’s twin strengths of business entrepreneurship and private capital management are central to understanding family enterprise now and into the future.
Successful family enterprises play an integral role within the entrepreneurial and funding ecosystems.
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