At Generation6, we treat education as more than content delivery - we see it as a pathway to building stronger relationships and enabling deeper conversations through a common language and shared understanding of your family enterprise.

Education is the connective tissue that binds family, ownership, governance, and strategy together. It is how families build capable owners, resilient relationships, and a shared sense of direction.

Financial education is critical for business families with a generational vision - yet, it is often undervalued and not prioritized, despite its profound implications for family cohesion and business sustainability.

Family firms that fail to educate their owners are putting their future in peril. In this article, we highlight where business families fall short in their ownership training and outline a simple process to identify the educational needs of your own family shareholder group.

Successful, long-lasting business families have a family strategy: A shared understanding of what is important to them, what they want to do together, and how they want to work together to achieve their collective goals and vision.

The German Merck family has succeeded where many business families have failed: Keeping a group of over 300 family members unified, aligned and committed over the course of 350 years.

There is little empirical evidence to support the widely held claim that the next generation of family business leaders benefit from working outside the family enterprise.