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On campus program

Future-Proofing your Business Family

Strengthen your family’s business and governance roadmap

On campus program

Future-Proofing your Business Family

Strengthen your family’s business and governance roadmap

Location

Singapore

Length

3 days

Fee

SGD 15,700

Next program starts

24 September 2025

Prepare the groundwork for a lasting legacy now

Future-Proofing your Business Family is IMD Asia’s flagship program dedicated to helping business families prepare for the future through strengthening their business and family governance.

This program offers business families profound insights into the challenges of operating in fast-growing and high-risk markets. It will also provide them with a clear roadmap to design their future business strategy, corporate governance, and family governance, with the ultimate goal of safeguarding and enhancing their legacy.

The program design focuses on sharing successful practices and applying these to participants’ own context. Participants will experience a learning mixture of case studies, expert speakers and lectures based on the knowledge, research and wealth of experience of our global faculty and the IMD Global Family Business Center. In addition, participants will have ample opportunities to learn from others and to network with like-minded business families during the program.

We encourage family members to join together so that IMD can assist them in their transformational journey.

Learn from an outside perspective

Listen to unbiased voices about you, your business family, and what you need to do to strengthen your resilience so that you can successfully embrace future opportunities and challenges together.

Build your future readiness

Use our tools, peer learning, expert sharing, frameworks, and coaching to build concrete action plans for your family.

Build from your unique roots

Learn from IMD’s independent global expertise and deep Asia exposure to formulate actionable plans that are suitable for your unique context and aspirations.

Govern fairly

Leverage IMD’s deep experience in helping business families to discover the best governance model for you, your family, and your portfolio of activities.

Your family

This program is for you if your family:

Is a multi-generational business family looking to foster a long-lasting entrepreneurial legacy. You want your family to work harmoniously together, be it in business or in other joint activities such as a family office or family philanthropy.
Recognizes that family members have different roles, capabilities and aspirations and you want to be able to take high-quality decisions together while avoiding family conflicts. You recognize that you have done well, but also that the future will require you to continuously adapt and improve.
Is keen to benefit from the latest independent insights from academic experts and from peers in the program and to reinforce the foundations to embrace the future with confidence.

For ideal learning benefits, we encourage team attendance – for example family teams of several generations, siblings, cousins, and/or their key non-family executives.

Attending as a family will help you to develop a common language and a common approach. You can also consider sending family members
to the same program over time.

Your learning journey

Day 1 – Introduction (half day)

How to improve your resilience as a business family

Day 2 – Future of your business

How to design your future family business strategy
How to innovate across generations in high-growth environments
How to build effective governance for resilient business portfolios
Coaching

Day 3 – Future of your family

Family governance
Rules on family renumeration
Ownership and leadership succession
Coaching

Day 4 – Future of your legacy (half day)

How to design your family’s legacy

Next start & fee

Length: 3 days on campus
Special team offer: Every 5th participant joins the program for free.

Dates

24 Sep – 27 Sep 2025

Location

Singapore

Length

3 days

Price

SGD 15,700

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Tuition, teaching materials, and lunch are included.
All fees quoted are exclusive of any value-added or other indirect taxes that may be due in any country.
IMD reserves the right to modify the program dates, location, and fee at any time.

This program helps business families leave a lasting entrepreneurial legacy by strengthening the foundations of effective governance. It allows families have important conversations on their future and learn together from experts, peers, and coaches.

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Marleen Dieleman Program Director

Marleen Dieleman

Peter Lorange Family Business Professor

Marleen Dieleman holds the Peter Lorange Chair in Family Business. She is an expert on the challenges faced by emerging market enterprises in their strategic trajectories. Her research focuses on the governance, strategy, internationalization, innovation, and transformation of business families in emerging markets, and also on emerging market state…

Ben Bryant

Professor of Leadership and Organization

Ben Bryant is Professor of Leadership and Organization. He was previously the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair for Responsible Leadership. He is also Program Director of the Transformational Leader program. He is a highly skilled educator, executive team coach, and speaker. He works with a wide range of CEOs and their executive teams and presents his …

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