Leading and assuring the continuity of your family enterprise

FAMILY ENTERPRISE CONTINUITY

We help you and your family find a common platform, a clear strategy and a good framework to ensure continuity.

Family businesses are fundamentally structured differently from other firms. This leads to demanding internal conditions in addition to commercial and market challenges. As the family grows, complexities increase. While different expectations evolve around the heritage and maintaining the traditions on which the company is built, continuous innovation and development are required.

Participants: The program is for individual family businesses and all family members including current and next generations, active or not active as well as owners and board members.

Through the program, we provide a unique learning opportunity for families who want plan solid and long-term ownership between generations and family branches. By raising awareness of a range of challenges and dilemmas, we help you and your family find a common platform, a clear strategy and robust frameworks to ensure continuity.

Learnings of a lifetime

The following topics are addressed:

  • How other successful families have managed and nurtured entrepreneurs over generations.
  • Different ownership roles in a family business and their responsibilities - how to own and develop a successful business together over generations.
  • Develop a platform for knowledge sharing, learning and decision making.
  • Create a strategy that brings together owners (vision, goals, values, risk, liquidity, growth).
  • Management of the family's relationship with the external world including social, societal, philanthropic and political activities of the busines.

Families often get emmeshed in conflict, family roles and responsibilities, difficult conversations and misalignment of the family with the business. We help families agree on their values to build a strong mission and vision for the family and for the firm: preserving harmony and laying the grounds for a sustainable future for both

Mette Ballari
Private and enterprise family leader, Nordic Family Office

How is this done?

Our advisory starts with a conversation with the family/owners where we introduce the fundamental opportunities, challenges, and issues that all family firms face. We address the understanding of an owners’ role and responsibilities, and provide you the frameworks for good synergies between different owners.

In addition, we help you build a clear ownership strategy. We start the work with each individual family member: this is important for creating engagement and not least - getting everyone to become a strong team member.

Each family enterprise is unique and therefore the training and content are adapted to individual families and their members.

Dates: Since the program is tailored for you and your family, we we find dates that suit everyone.
FEE: Contact us for more information.
Language: This program is offered in Norwegian, English, Danish and French.

With over two decades of experience working closely with family business owners and next-gen leaders, we have observed that value-based ownership, benefiting owners, companies, and society, begins with introspection. We prioritize helping individuals discover their true selves, their values, beliefs, and the culture they cultivate. We firmly believe that the power lies within each person.

While the world seeks to address challenges through investments and external solutions, we understand that true transformation begins within. 

Our commitment is to focus on people, recognizing that the power to change the world starts with empowering oneself. Through NFO, we strive to create a paradigm shift that places personal growth and individual empowerment at the forefront of sustainable change.



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about the team

Mette Ballari

Passionate about helping family business owners become aware of who they are and what their values, driving force, roles and responsibilities are through good frameworks for ownership over generations.

Mette has 18 years of experience as an advisor for family-owned businesses in the Nordic countries, and has previously been a part of funding and leading the organization Family Business Norway. She assists owners in creating sustainable growth and competitive advantage across generations. Mette joined EY in 2017 and is head of EY Private and Family Enterprise team. In collaboration with Bjørgun Jønsberg she has built “The Art of Owning a Family Company” – EYs center of competence for owners and the next generation of owners of family businesses. Mette is also responsible for EY's "Woman Fast Forward" program in Norway. Mette is also responsible for EY’s program "Women Fast Forward" in Norway.

Tap into your power as a FUTURE leader and human being

As much as 80% of all value creation in the world today stems from family businesses. This implies that the choices owners make, will have a huge impact on the direction in which the world moves. Mette wants to contribute to owners becoming aware of their role. Through various programs and counselling, she challenges the owners to create major changes in both their own lives and the lives of others, including creating good frameworks for co-ownership across generations.

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about the team

Angoline Berge Tobias

Culture lays the foundation and paves the way for innovation and sustainable growth, and trust is crucial for the relations needed.

Angoline works with getting owner vision, owner strategy, and goals implemented in the organization. The processes are goal-driven and built on a high degree of involvement in all levels : The owner board and its forum, as well as the board, management, and other key roles.

She is concerned with ensuring that the work provides value in both the short and long run, which means that you solve the short-sighted ambitions while also building a common culture over time.

She has an extensive experience with this side of business – both as a board member and chairman of the board, HR director, CEO, partner, and as leader in other capacities.

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How Mette is building a better working world

I am Building a better working world by being genuine and trusting others, as I have a strong faith that we together will create a better world. By sharing from my own experience, I wish to provide transparency and honesty in the conversations where we all can use ourselves as the basis. This is important when sustainability, innovation and digitalization is on the agenda, and change is required.

I help owners and leaders of family businesses become conscious of their roles, and how they can use this responsibility. I am engaged in helping everyone see that they can succeed, that they both as individuals and groups can make big changes – and for this, I use my experiences from studies within strategic coaching and sustainability.

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