24th – 28th of May 2021
Family Business Week
Global BUSINESS _local FAMILY
Experts, practitioners, family business owners
Let’s meet ONLINE!
Family Business Week
5 exceptional days: full of content, emotions and interactions
The Family Business Week program has been designed to meet the expectations of business families who are struggling with crisis and turbulences. We have divided the Family Business Week into FIVE key areas that should be taken care of by every family member who feels responsibility for the company’s sustainability.
The best experts from around the world will share experience and support for both: business and family!
Let’s see how the Family Business Week will look like!
Monday
Company / Knowledge
Tuesday
Leadership / Power
Wednesday
Wealth / Ownership
Thursday
Owner and Family / Values
Friday
Global Environment / Vision
WHO is it for?
Family Business Week is for those who care about the future of their family businesses! So, if you are:
- The owner of a family business
- A successor from a family business
- A member of a business family
- A manager working in a family business
- An employee employed in a family business
… THIS PLACE IS FOR YOU! During 5 themed days and speeches of our international guests that make up the Family Business Week, you’ll find what you’re looking for!
WHAT to expect?
Every day we willdiscuss different topics related to the systemic management of a family business – covered practically by international experts and family business owners from Poland and from around the world. Being here, you will get knowledge and inspirations in the areas of:
- FAMILY BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
- YOUR BUSINESS FAMILY
- THE ENVIRONMENT OF YOUR COMPANY
- WEALTH MANAGEMENT
- CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP
The world's oldest family business, Hoshi Ryokan will tell you about its heritage and values that have spanned over 1300 years.

What is the VALUE?
Congress is an experience that we have now transferred to the ONLINE SPACE. But it is not everything! Online gives us new opportunities:
- We will provide you with a solid dose of content from around the world – very much wanted and needed in the current situation
- You will look comprehensively at your business and family – according to system thinking and management
- You will manage your time – you decide which session and speech you would like to join – depending on your time preferences (there are so many to choose from!)


About family businesses in Poland
In Poland there is
36% of family businesses
56% of them is
planning succession
8% children from family businesses
wants to take over the business
Only 30% of them
will pass effectively their business
to the second generation!
By attending Family Business Week you will learn how to respond to new challenges facing the businesses from the whole world!
Registration
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- 1. Click on the package and add it to the cart
- 2. Make the online payment
- 3. GET THE ACCESS TO THE EVENT PLATFORM FOR THE WHOLE 5 DAYS (18-22.05) - wait for the email with the instructions and details!
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Basic package
159 € per person
89 € per person
Net price
159 € per person
Net price from 15.05.2021
Access to streaming of all lectures
Access to live-chat
Access to conference materials (materials from speakers, experts and partners)
Certificate of attendance available upon request
Access to recordings from FBW 2021
Access to the online course “Innovations in family businesses”
One-hour consultation session with an IBR expert
Gold package
219 € per person
179 € per person
Net price
219 € per person
Net price from 15.05.2021
Access to streaming of all lectures
Access to live-chat
Access to conference materials (materials from speakers, experts and partners)
Certificate of attendance available upon request
Access to recordings from FBW 2021
Family package
If there are more of you and you want to join the event with your business family or colleagues - write to us. We have family packages!
awlodarczyk@ibrpolska.pl
Are you in a difficult situation because of the pandemic but you really want to participate in Family Business Week? Write us!
awlodarczyk@ibrpolska.pl
Agenda
Family Business Week
Global BUSINESS _local FAMILY
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Day 2
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Day 3
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Day 4
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Day 5
May 24th, 2021
Monday
From generation to generation. A company with longevity.
Challenges in this area:
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Knowing the company: how, why, what we do, why and how i.e. the essence of the company’s history and values with the business context.
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Unique knowledge transfer from generation to generation
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Intra/family succession/ an alternative choice for company longevity
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Organizational maturity diagnosis
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Unique knowledge and competencies within the business family
Simultaneous translation of foreign lectures into English // English speaking lectures
10:00 - 10:30
Warsaw Time
- The transfer of knowledge from generation to generation.
- Managing Power and Authority,
- How Family Business struggle when complexity increases?

Guillermo Salazar
Exaudi Family Business Consulting

10:30 - 11:00
Warsaw Time
- Importance of creating a strategic plan
-The nature of tacit knowledge (deep smarts)
- Skills, competencies, and mindsets
-Opportunities to learn
- The importance of stories in transferring wisdom and values
-A first-generation entrepreneur’s view of transferring wisdom in a newly minted family enterprise.

11:30 - 12:00
Warsaw Time
- Challenges of the managerial staff and the need for continuous development
- What does good leadership mean today?
- The influence of leaders on the development of employees and organizations

May 25th, 2021
Tuesday
Effective leadership in family business
Challenges in this area:
- Collaboration and shared viewpoint as key factors in generational change
- Verifying similarities and differences in the management styles of the doyen and the successor
- Studying the organizational culture of the company
- Styles of seniors leaving family companies – diagnosis
- Communicating difficult subjects
Simultaneous translation of foreign lectures into English // English speaking lectures
10:00 - 10:30
Warsaw Time
- A look at traditional ideas about leadership
- Changes in leadership attributes and styles
- Impact on family business selection process
- Some tips for the future

Susanne Bransgroove
LiquidGold Consultants

10:30 - 11:00
Warsaw Time
-Sharing D'Addario experience in effective leadership
-Identifying various challenges associated with transition in leadership one generation to next

John D’Adarrio III
CEO & President D’Addario & Company, Inc.

11:30 - 12:00
Warsaw Time
Managing your personal finances is no less important than managing your company's finances. How do personal finances help build multigenerational wealth?
-What types of assets are worth building - also in view of a generational change?
-What to avoid when working with the financial industry?
- What is the cheapest source of financing capital needed for succession planning?

May 26th, 2021
WEDNESDAY
Family wealth: keeping it in the family – how family members and their advisors protect human, intellectual and financial resources across generations
Challenges in this area:
- Defining and describing family business ownership configurations/models
- The potential for growth across generations
- How much is the company worth?
- A retirement plan for doyens
Simultaneous translation of foreign lectures into English // English speaking lectures
10:00 - 10:30
Warsaw Time
- The importance of family businesses for countries’ economies is undeniable.
- Succession of a Family Business involves several factors such as the management, the ownership, and the family.
- How family businesses plan their succession is vital for their continuity. It must be strategically planned and effectively executed the succession planning.
- Given that each family and family business are unique, there isn’t a one size fit all. However, we will discuss possible paths and provide insights to help family businesses owners decide what is better for their family and family businesses regarding the planned succession of the ownership and the management that can help preserve the wealth and the legacy of the family and the family business.

Juliana Binhote
Family Business Researcher. UofL Forcht Center for Entrepreneurship. Ifera Latam CCC. Lawyer



10:30 - 11:00
Warsaw Time

11:30 - 12:00
Warsaw Time
-Presentation of Firmenich company, the winner of Sustainability Award
-Resilence and intertwining sustainability.
-Impact finance.

May 27th, 2021
Thursday
Family business values: the key to your success
Challenges in this area:
- Family values and mission
- Family first or business first?
- Value Codes – the values of the family business
- Rules of the game – how to work out the rules governing business and family issues?
Simultaneous translation of foreign lectures into English // English speaking lectures
10:00 - 10:30
Warsaw Time
-How family values can help ensure a legacy of continuity
-Values built and signaled by the family - are they identified?

Isabel C. Botero, Ph.D.
University of Louisvile. Family Business Center

10:30 - 11:00
Warsaw Time
- Growing up in a family business
- Pressure or no pressure?
- Our core values considering generational shift
- How much time does it take?

Anders Nystedt
VD/CEO in GRÖNLUNDS PLÅT AB

11:00 - 11:30
Warsaw Time
- Building a sense of meaning at the individual and organizational level
- The importance of family in today's world and in today's company
- Valuable practices of companies in the area of caring for families
- Family Friendly Company Award and other actions carried out by Humanites.

Global Environment/Vision
May 28th, 2021
Friday
A lasting legacy: ensuring the future of your family business
Challenges in this area:
- A shared vision for the future of the business family and company
- Communicating generational change
- New technologies, Innovation, Digitalization and the resilience and agility of family businesses
Simultaneous translation of foreign lectures into English // English speaking lectures
10:00 - 10:30
TBA

Rania Labaki
EDHEC Business School

Speakers 2021

dr Adrianna Lewandowska
Family Business Institute
President of the Family Business Institute, Founder and owner of the Family Business Consulting company. Visionary of Polish family entrepreneurship, strategist, adviser, success architect of many Polish…

Susanne Bransgroove
LiquidGold Consultants
Susanne Bransgrove is a Family Business Specialist, Thought Leader, entrepreneur, and the Founder and Managing Director of Women in Family Business Australia & New Zealand….

Rania Labaki
EDHEC Business School
Rania LABAKI, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Finance and Family Business, Director of EDHEC Family Business Research Centre and Family Business Fellow at Cornell University and Family Firm Institute…

Guillermo Salazar
Exaudi Family Business Consulting
Expert on corporate governance, and the strategic planning of succession and family patrimony. He has served as an advisor for numerous business families on their protocols…

Anders Nystedt
Grönlunds Plåt AB
Anders Nystedt is the CEO of the Swedish company Grönlunds Plåt AB, which has been on the market for 148 years. Nowadays, the company is a modern enterprise which mainly deals with sheet metal processing…

John D’Adarrio III
CEO & President
D’Addario & Company, Inc
John D’Addario III is CEO and President of D’Addario & Company, Inc., the world’s largest designer, manufacturer, and distributor of musical instrument accessories.

Juliana Binhote
Family Business Researcher, IFERA Latam CCC, Lawyer
Juliana Binhote is a family business owner and researcher. In addition, is a lawyer, and consultant for legal aspects and family businesses enterprises…

Isabel C. Botero
University of Louisville
Director of the Family Business Centre and associate professor of entrepreneurship. Specializations: Communication in and about family businesses, Influencing processes in organizations, Sharing information in work teams, Crisis communication

Roman Wieczorek
Family Business Institude
Roman Wieczorek is lawyer, legal advisor, graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Former Vice CEO of the global Skanska Group with headquarters in Stockholm (2010-2016) and former CEO of Skanska in Poland (2005-2009) and former CEO of Skanska Czech Republic and Slovakia (2015-2016)….

Thomas A. Fediuk
Fediuk Botero, LLC
Tomasz A. Fediuk is managing director at Fediuk Botero, LLC, a research and advisory firm for family enterprises…

Zengoro Houshi
Hoshi Ryokan
Zengoro Houshi is the 46th owner of the oldest family business in the world – Hoshi Ryokan. The Japanese hot spring hotel was built in 718 in the city of Komatsu and entered the Guinness Book of Records…

Szymon Trzebiatowski
Family Business Institute
A financier by education, many years of controlling and manager practice. For almost 25 years associated with the largest private employer in Poznań and Greater Poland, the company Volkswagen Poznań sp. Z oo, including 8 years as a member of the management board for finance, organization and IT…

Katarzyna Barcińska
Family Business Institude
An expert of the Family Business Institute in the field of marketing and brand management. She supports family businesses in building and promoting their family character. Involved in the process of succession of family businesses in the SME sector…..

Maciej Stradomski
Family Business Institute
Maciej Stradomski is the Chairman of the Program Council of the Family Business Institute. He specializes in capital markets, private market M&A transactions, corporate financial strategies and corporate governance…

Michał Gniatkowski
Family Business Institute
Legal counsel, court mediator, expert of the Family Business Institute specializing in inheritance and succession processes….

Łukasz Martyniec
Wielopokoleniowi.pl
Łukasz Martyniec – uccession advisor, lawyer, financial advisor, publicist and lecturer. A graduate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Wrocław. Since 2004, he has specialized in succession consulting and inheritance planning, especially for family businesses…

Jaroslaw Pytkowski
Director of the Insurance Brokerage Department, MetLife.
For over 25 years he has worked in the life insurance industry. His career began as an insurance agent. A true leader appreciated by colleagues. In his spare time, he runs and… constantly learns, because he likes to know which way the wind is blowing.

Dariusz Stasik
CEO and Owner of W.P.I.P.
Dariusz Stasik is CEO and Owner of W.P.I.P. Author of the GOOD TIME FOR SMART CITY blog. Initiator of the lifestyle project and the SAVE THE PLANET foundation….

Dagmara Krakówka
Family Business Institute
She has many years of experience in marketing, journalism and communications. She has worked for international corporations and Polish entrepreneurs…..

Zofia Dzik
Humanites Institute
Founder of the Humanites Institute – think & do tank on the development of Cohesive Leadership™ and social capital, combining the topics of Human and Technology, author of the “Village” Model of the Social Ecosystem, the Cohesive Leadership™ Model and the “Loop” Model…

Wojciech Jezierski
Abris Capital Partners
At Abris Capital Partners, he focuses on investments in private companies, including family businesses. He is responsible for the investment in Graal (fish processing) and CADM (engineering design office), which are run jointly with the founders of these companies….

Marta Widz
Family Business Institute
Advisor and researcher of family businesses. PhD in Economics from the world’s leading Center for Family Business at St. Gallen University in Switzerland. Researcher at the Global Family Business Center (GFBC) at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland…

Anna Bielak-Dworska
Family Business Institute
An entrepreneur in the second generation. Since 2004 involved in the activities of the family business. Founder of Stajnia Foundation, chief operating officer of the organization. She is responsible for the revitalization program, including building an international community of the Palace and Park Complex in Siemianowice Śląskie…..

Dariusz Chełmiński
House of Skills
Senior Partner responsible at House of Skills for the “Leadership” area. Coach, consultant and trainer with over 20 years of experience in working with Management Boards and Top Management and business experience: he practiced leadership in change and acquisition processes as Director of Human Resources Development Center …

Katarzyna Marszalik
House of Skills
Specialist in know-how development, psychologist, graduate of Warsaw University with a specialization in supporting personality development. She follows and analyses global trends in people development in organisations….

Benjamin Firmenich
Impact Finance
Benjamin is Executive Director of Impact Finance. He is based in Geneva where he is the Head of Investor Relations. He frequently travels to meet with investors. He also regularly trains new analysts to conduct financial and social due diligence of companies. …

Michał Wypychewicz
President of the Management Board ZPUE
Michał Wypychewicz is President of the Management Board of ZPUE. He gained his professional experience in Standard & Poor’s (S&P Global Rating), the world’s largest international rating agency, as a Management Associate, business consultant and project manager, co-creator of the Leaderland and Bizplaner…

Adam Mokrysz
President of the Mokate Group
President of the Mokate Group. Successor and leader of family business of Mokate Group. Responsible for development of new business directions, creates and develops international identity of the company. On international markets is perceived
as a leading expert in FMCG industry from Central Europe.

Anna Tępińska-Marcinek
Co-owner, Board Member of Paradyż Ceramics
A graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology, where she earned her Ph.D. She completed postgraduate studies in Management at Berkley University in the USA and postgraduate studies in Financial Management at the Warsaw School of Economics…

Adam Tępiński
Co-owner, Board Member of Ceramika Paradyż
Graduate of the Stanisław Staszic AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Faculty of Materials Engineering and Ceramics, specialization: Ceramics and Glass. He also completed postgraduate studies in Management and Marketing at the University of Lodz…

Mark J. Aubry
CEO of RHM, Ltd. Co.,
For over 20 years, Mark J. Aubry has focused on building businesses that provide strategic guidance to entrepreneurs and business owners. He is now co-founder and CEO of RHM, Ltd. Co., a regenerative health management firm located in the United States. RHM offers impact-oriented physicians a relationship-driven medical advisory platform in the regenerative medicine industry…

Piotr Voelkel
Grupa VOX
Piotr Voelkel założyciel Grupy Kapitałowej VOX, założyciel Uniwersytetu SWPS, Fundacji Vox-Artis, prezes Wielkopolskiego Towarzystwa Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych. Inwestor strate-giczny wielokrotnie nagradzanego biurowca Bałtyk, podnoszącego wartość architektoniczną centrum Poznania. Znawca sztuki i promotor polskiego designu….
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