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    Training

    Programs in governance, succession planning and leadership that help family businesses last across generations.

    Overview

    Learning that carries across generations

    The Center runs training in governance, succession planning and leadership development, designed to help family businesses continue across generations, some of it with international academic partners such as INSEAD, MIT and IMD.

    Choose from open programmes with announced dates, or ask for one designed for your family or business: from institutional-transformation workshops and board briefings to next-generation development.

    Training in numbers

    • +139training programmes and workshops
    • +1,300trainees
    • 16consultants accredited through the Family Business Consultant programme
    • 5mediators accredited through the Family Business Mediator programme

    Programmes for owners

    Institutional transformation workshops

    Sessions for owners to align the family on the business’s structure and the family charter.

    Family wealth and family offices

    Family wealth governance, family-office leadership, and growing and managing wealth across generations.

    International programmes

    The INSEAD Family Business Management programme and the family-office leadership programme with IMD.

    Family business strategy

    An executive session that helps owners set their business’s strategic direction, priorities and big decisions.

    Family business finance

    Supporting owners’ financial decisions, from reading statements and planning to valuing projects and funding.

    Private family trips

    A trip the Center organises for one family, which chooses the destination and the training that suits it.

    What our training offers

    • Global partners

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      • Programmes with leading institutions such as INSEAD, MIT and IMD
      • In the Kingdom and abroad
    • Hands-on

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      • Real cases and practical tools
      • Governance that supports continuity and growth
    • Building capability

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      • Qualifying advisors and mediators
      • Succession and next-generation tracks
    • Building relationships

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      • Meet owners and leaders of other family businesses
      • Exchange experience with local and international experts

    Programmes for professionals

    Qualifying and accrediting family business advisors and mediators, and connecting them with businesses, to build a national professional base.

    CFBA

    Certified Family Business Advisor

    Trains advisors in governance, succession, wealth management and charters, with a certificate after a final assessment.

    CFBM

    Certified Family Business Mediator

    Trains mediators in dialogue and settlement drafting within the Badeel programme; its mediators have handled more than 300 cases.

    Connecting professionals with family businesses

    Connects qualified advisors and mediators with family businesses that need them.

    Highlights

    • What participants learn

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      • Family business governance
      • Succession and wealth management
      • Mediation and dispute resolution
      • Family charters and settlements
    • Accreditation

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      • Final assessment and certificate
      • More credibility when contracting
      • The Center’s list of accredited advisors
    • After the programme

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      • Connection with client businesses
      • Badeel in the charter’s mediation clause
      • The Center’s community and think tank