Cambridge Family Business Leadership Programme
Providing family business leaders with strategic skills for long-term success. The programme addresses the unique challenges faced by family enterprises with a cutting-edge curriculum and practical insights from industry leaders.
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Dates:
Duration:
Fees:
Blended
8 Dec 2024 (start date)
6 months
£22,000
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Blended
Dates:
8 Dec 2024 (start date)
Duration:
6 months
Fees:
£22,000
Overview
Family businesses are vital to the global economy, driving growth and creating jobs. Despite their economic impact, they face unique challenges such as generational leadership and navigating family dynamics. To overcome this, family business leaders must adopt agile and strategic leadership techniques and focus on long-term sustainability and business growth.
The 6-month Cambridge Family Business Leadership Programme will enable you to navigate generational transitions, succession planning, governance and market disruptions through deep insights and long-term strategies. Through a blend of online and live online modules and in-person sessions, participants will engage with expert faculty, gaining valuable skills in conflict management, strategic foresight and financial and wealth management. The programme is designed to ensure the enduring success and resilience of your family business, providing you with the tools needed to lead effectively and secure your legacy.
Benefits and career impact
The Cambridge Family Business Leadership Programme draws on the expertise of Cambridge Judge Business School’s eminent faculty, who have immense knowledge and extensive experience in family-owned enterprises. By leveraging cutting-edge frameworks, the curriculum inspires participants to think and act strategically and address key issues facing family businesses.
- Enhance your understanding and skills for leading, managing and governing business continuity across generations
- Understand family business dynamics and the factors that contribute to sustaining and growing the family business
- Gain expertise in formulating, implementing and evaluating growth strategies to achieve long-term goals and competitive advantage
- Apply a broad set of skills and knowledge essential for effective family business leadership and management across various organisational contexts.
- Evaluate the finance and investment challenges and opportunities
- Develop effective strategies and processes for governance, succession planning and conflict management from a leadership and ownership perspective.
Family businesses make a significant contribution to economies around the world, helping in economic growth, job creation, advancing innovation and fostering community development. The intersection of finance, operations, wealth management, strategy and other principles drives the growth of family businesses. The Cambridge Family Business Leadership Programme offers members of family enterprises the opportunity to embark on a journey to manage, lead and grow their family business across generations.
This programme is being delivered in collaboration with Emeritus.
Programme content
This immersive experience will broaden your understanding of current trends and emerging opportunities in a family-owned business, empower your strategic thinking and enhance your leadership skills.
Module 1: Managing the Family Enterprise | In person
- Analyse the opportunities and challenges facing owner-managed family businesses.
- Build a strategy by balancing family values and business goals.
- Pursue innovation-based growth and build resilient business models.
- Learn the financial and wealth management aspects of family business.
Module 2: Aligning the Family Goals and Business Strategy | Online
- Explore various approaches to execute and implement winning business strategies.
- Learn how owner-managed family businesses develop strategies to avoid derailment from their developmental path.
- Apply systems and diagnostic models to evaluate the family business characteristics better.
- Evaluate the strengths and challenges of a family business model.
Module 3: Governance and Leadership | In person
- Evaluate governance schemes and ownership regimes to manage conflict.
- Regulate the role of the family stakeholders.
- Integrate the entrepreneurial, managerial and governance culture in the succession-planning process.
- Craft a strategic succession plan for family business continuity.
How you learn: Face-to-face
Immerse yourself in an inspirational learning environment in the historic and beautiful city of Cambridge. In an intense classroom-based experience, you will engage with faculty and peers in person. Join ‘Cambridge Union’-style debates, hear from guest speakers and faculty, and enjoy group exercises, role-play and informal conversations both in and outside class.
Who attends
The Cambridge Family Business Leadership Programme is designed for senior members of owner-managed family businesses and non-family senior executives. While individuals are welcome, attending as a team of two or more from the same family enterprise is encouraged for shared learning. Ideal participants include:
- Family members and family shareholders.
- Family and non-family board members of family businesses.
- Family and non-family C-suite, senior management and business leaders.
- Bankers and advisers to family businesses.
- Family teams, including senior non-family managers, senior executives and board members.
Faculty and speakers
Learn from our world-class faculty who bring fresh insights from their leading-edge research into all of our Executive Education programmes. The Academic Programme Director (APD) for the Cambridge Family Business Leadership Programme is Professor Khaled Soufani.
Director of the Cambridge Executive MBA Programme
Director of the Circular Economy Centre (CEC)
Fellow of Magdalene College
European Master in Management & Diplôme Grande Ecole (ESCP Europe), DEA (Université Paris X Nanterre), MA (University of Cambridge), PhD (HEC, France)
Professorial Fellow of St Edmund’s College
MPhil, PhD (University of Cambridge)
BSc, MSc (Giessen University), PhD (Aston University)
BA (University of Modena), MS, PhD (Washington University in St Louis)
Why Cambridge Judge Business School?
Related programmes
The Cambridge Family Business Leadership Programme belongs to our Leadership-topic executive education programmes. Here is a selection of related programmes:
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Contact us
If you have any questions or would like to have a chat about this programme and how it could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the Open Programmes team: