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Road Map for Entrepreneurial Families™

The Road Map for Entrepreneurial Families™ is the centrepiece of BFF in-class programs. This three-day program is delivered in partnership with our affiliate Centres for Family Enterprise and is designed for your whole family. Working with established facilitators and experts in the field of family enterprise, you and your family learn together and in the company of other entrepreneurial families. The greatest benefit of this program is the time it provides you and your family to learn, reflect and take action to work on the dynamics of your family business.
What is Road Map for Entrepreneurial Families™ ?
Road Map for Entrepreneurial Families™ is an educational program designed by the Business Families Foundation to provide business families with the insights, encouragement, support and models required for them to clarify their objectives, chart a productive direction to reach these objectives, and begin to implement that direction successfully.
For all Business Families
Road Map for Entrepreneurial Families™ is designed for all business families irrespective of where they are in their development stage or what managerial and governance practices they have or haven’t instituted. The program offers learning opportunities to owners, successors, spouses and other members of the business family.
A safe place...
Road Map for Entrepreneurial Families™ is designed to be sensitive and respectful of individual and family issues. Facilitators create a safe environment that encourages communication between family members. Throughout the program participants follow the Dupont Family, a case story that serves as a catalyst for discussion on various business family issues.
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“...It has been a time away from our busy daily lives. An opportunity to ask ourselves what we really want from our lives and what the family business means to us all...”
C.E.O. founder owner
“I have realized through this program that we are a ‘normal’ family. It is comforting to meet families who are more advanced in the transition process.”
Youngest daughter of C.E.O.
“Our kids will be taking over eventually. We know their strengths and weaknesses and want to support them. This Road Map program has helped us address many of these unspoken issues.”
Spouse of second generation C.E.O.


