Developing and Sustaining a Successful Family Business

Louis Cauffman is a business economist and clinical psychologist with a wide range of therapeutic training, ranging from Systemic Family Therapy to Ericksonian Hypnotherapy through all possible directions within the solution-oriented approach.

Introduction 1. A Family Business Framework 2. A Solution Focused framework 3. Intertwining Life Cycles of the Family and the Family Business 4. Education is the Mother of Leadership 5. The Big Question 6. Challenges for the Next Generation 7. How to prepare the First Generation for succession 8. The Solution Focused Toolkit 9. The Solution Tango 10. Conversations with the Siblings 11. Eight tools for the Next Generation’s future 12. Eight possible Scenario’s for the Future 13. The Decision of a Lifetime 14. The Dance of the Stakeholders 15. How to let go after Succession? 16. Three Family@business Governance tools 17. Three Family@business Management tools 18. The John & Annie Family Business, ten years later