Following on from the success of our previous B2B sessions at past conferences, it’s back again in 2022!
This event offers the perfect opportunity to expand your business, social or enterprise contacts. All in a relaxed informal setting, all while enjoying a delicious breakfast. Don’t forget to come armed with your business cards … you never know who you might meet!
Don’t miss this ‘opportunity to create opportunities’.
Coopers is a brewing family. It’s in their blood. Their passion for brewing has kept the family together and helped the business through economic recessions, wars, government imposts, changing tastes, pandemics and the occasional hostile takeover bid.
After dedicating over 150 years to the art of brewing, Coopers is an icon.
With the incumbent generation in their 50’s and 60’s, it’s time to plan for the next transition.
Australia’s leading family of brewers has restructured its senior management to enable the 5th generation to transfer from commercial to custodial roles while the upcoming 6th generation find their feet. The role of non-family executives will be key to this process.
Join Melanie Cooper and her nephew Andrew Cooper as they share: how the business is transitioning from the 5th to the 6th generation, the measures they have put in place to future-proof the business, and what it feels like to be the custodians of the Coopers legacy.
Terry and Rhonda White never anticipated their innovative ideas and approach to customer care would result in the TerryWhite Chemmart brand becoming recognised as one of Australia’s most iconic home-grown businesses.
Throughout the decades, Rhonda and Terry have been applauded for their dedication to the profession of Pharmacy and the community. Both have been granted numerous significant awards, including an Order of Australia for their specific contributions in their areas of specialty.
Hear from Terry and Rhonda on their insights into a successful continued partnership, learning to work co-operatively and how their complementary leadership and business skills have made them a leader in the field.
FACT – 70% of all wealth transitions from one generation to the next, fail. These number grow to over 90+% for the following generations.
Importantly, we know that in 95% of these cases, the wealth transition failures are caused by one or more of the following “family dynamic” factors including lack of trust within the family, communication issues within the family, the next generation not being prepared or a lack of a clear purpose of the family’s wealth.
Family dynamics play a much greater role in successful wealth transfers than previously understood. There is a reason behind the saying…”Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves in three generations”.
Key to success is preparing the family members today for their roles and responsibilities tomorrow. Part of that preparation is giving family members responsibilities in relation to the family’s assets, whether or not that involves a role within the business.
Join Brad Scott and a panel of family business leaders as they examine the relationship between the family office and family dynamics.
Resilience: a family’s capacity to adapt and change in response to the developmental growth of its members and challenges from the outside world lies at the heart of successful family business.
This presentation will explore the concept of resilience and how it can be built at any stage even under adverse circumstances. It will identify the qualities that define a resilient family and how these can be developed at any stage in the lifecycle for the benefit of both the family and the business.
Participants will be encouraged to think about how these qualities apply to their own family and changes they could make to strengthen their capacity to respond positively to the next challenge.
As family businesses expand from their entrepreneurial beginnings, they face unique succession challenges.
When the son of German migrant, Alfred Neumann, moved from Laidley to Currumbin in 1922 with hopes of making a modest living as a builder and cabinet-maker, he had little idea that he would one day launch an empire that would employ three generations and become one of the Gold Coast’s oldest families in business.
The Neumann Group, quite literally, has shaped the Gold Coast into one of Australia’s fastest-growing cities. Whether it be canals dredged by Neumann Contractors, steel in the high-rises by Neumann Steel, concrete and quarry products in its infrastructure by Nucrush Group, or land developed by Neumann Developments.
But as the family business has grown to a multi-faceted organisation with an increasing number of family shareholders, and with few working in the business, where does the company go from there?
Third and fourth generation family members Bill Neumann, Kathy Conforti and Blake Neumann will share the challenges this creates for Next Generation family members when there is an exceptional legacy to preserve.
