What forms of wealth
sustain continuity
and which ones
rarely get named?
An ongoing research initiative exploring the human dynamics that shape continuity across generations in family enterprise systems. Through conversations, field observations and emerging questions.
An independent research initiative, with a fixed methodology and an editorial validation process with every interviewee.
The Observatory does not produce answers. It produces better questions.
Observing what continuity requires beyond governance.
Giving While There's Still Time to Multiply
What several voices reveal about sharing wealth while the next generation still has time to build with it. In dialogue with Ferran Fisas, second-generation owner of La Farga and advisor at Exaudi Family Business Consulting.
When Truth Becomes Speakable
What several voices reveal about what allows family enterprise systems to hold the truth together. In dialogue with Wendy Sage-Hayward, advisor at The Family Business Consulting Group (FBCG).
What Deserves to Be Preserved
What deserves to be preserved is rarely the same as what once made a family successful. In dialogue with Sébastien Damery, eighth-generation shareholder of one of the family groups behind Peugeot.
The Hardest Thing to Redesign Is Success
What made a family enterprise successful may be exactly what it now needs to let go of. In dialogue with Fernanda Jaramillo, Partner at Lansberg Gersick Advisors (LGA).
It Just Hasn't Said It Yet.
The System Already Knows. It Just Hasn't Said It Yet.
What would we ask of a family that we never ask of a protocol? On the gap between governance structures and the conditions they require to function.
Belonging, Governance and the Conversations Families Avoid
An opening note on the territory the Observatory is exploring — and the question that organises the research.