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FamilyShift for Next-Gen Business Families
Build the next generation of leadership excellence in your family business. FamilyShift empowers next-gen family business leaders with the skills and strategies to drive long-term success while preserving their family’s legacy.
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Price
$7,500 CAD
Fall Session
$7,500 CAD
October 6 - Friday, October 10, 2025
5 days
London, Ontario, Canada
Purpose and Impact
Why Family Businesses Need Next-Gen Leaders
Leading a family business goes beyond day-to-day management—it requires an entrepreneurial mindset, a commitment to innovation, and a thoughtful approach to balancing tradition with change.
In partnership with Ivey's Business Families Centre and KPMG Private Enterprise, FamilyShift is a week-long immersive program designed to empower next-generation family business leaders with the skills, governance strategies, and leadership frameworks needed to drive long-term success while preserving their family's legacy. Through real-world case studies, peer collaboration, expert guest speakers, and coaching sessions, participants build deep expertise in the unique challenges family businesses face.
Interested candidates must complete an application form and be nominated by an Ivey Executive Education or KPMG Private Enterprise representative. Participants are selected by Ivey Executive Education. Click the logo below to learn more.
Participant Profile
Who Should Apply to FamilyShift?
FamilyShift is for next-generation professionals involved at any level of the family businesses, whether they are:
- Learning the family business and its operations
- Preparing for greater leadership responsibility
- Transitioning into formal management roles
Learning Outcomes
Understanding the Family Business Landscape
- Understand the culture of family businesses and build a deeper understanding of your personal leadership role.
- Clarify your business's social impact and your role as a leader, ensuring alignment with your family's values and long-term vision.
- Enhance governance practices by refining legal, tax, and succession structures to support stability and future growth.
Leading sustainable change and innovation
- Refine your entrepreneurial instincts to create an intrapreneurial family enterprise.
- Use Design Thinking to drive resilience and adaptability in a rapidly changing business environment.
Elevating your family communication
- Practice creating shared value through negotiation — in your business and in life.
- Improve communication skills to manage family dynamics and decision-making effectively.
- Incorporate sound governance practices — including legal, tax, and succession structures — to help your business evolve and thrive through growth.
Defining your leadership
- Map out your personal leadership journey and define your legacy in the family business.
- Receive 1-1 feedback and coaching from expert mentors in other industries and sectors.
- Implement best practices in your approach to leadership that drive high performance, engagement, and collaboration.
- Build a network of peer leaders in family businesses, hearing feedback and advice on your real-world challenges.
What Makes FamilyShift Different?
- Tailored for Family Businesses: Unlike generic leadership programs, FamilyShift focuses specifically on succession planning, governance, and intergenerational leadership.
- Actionable Outcomes: Participants leave with concrete strategies they can immediately apply in their family business.
- Peer Learning & Mentorship: Build a lifelong network of like-minded leaders in family businesses.
- Experiential Learning: Move beyond theory and apply real-world solutions to governance, leadership, and family dynamics.
How To Apply
KPMG Private Enterprise is looking for the next generation of family business leaders to nominate as FamilyShift participants. To see if you qualify, fill out the 'Request Information' form above, or contact familyshift@ivey.ca.
How You Learn
FamilyShift is deeply experiential, grounded in case research, and facilitated by expert faculty from Ivey Business School. Our approach to learning is about practical application through real-world cases, peer learning, and simulations. You'll finish the program with new skills, crowdsourced wisdom, and a clear strategy to tackle specific challenges back at work.
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Simulations And Role Play
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Return on Investment
- Earn a credential from Ivey Business School. Your FamilyShift digital badge is linked to a unique URL, allowing you to showcase your advanced level of proficiency in online profiles.
- Form lifelong connections with peers through learning and social events. The Ivey Executive Education alumni network is a long-term resource for participants to share business opportunities or seek advice on life and career challenges.
- Explore new perspectives while taking time for mindfulness, reflection, and practice away from the demands of your day-to-day. Return to work with an open mind and increased confidence to be effective in your role.
- Receive discounts on select programs, exclusive event invitations, and curated collections of thought leadership and research from Ivey Business School.
- Learn to navigate the complexities of your family business and find sustainably successful outcomes.
- Hear from industry guest speakers to draw learning from real-world businesses and experts.
- Gain insights from across various industries and organizations, borrowing best practices and new perspectives from outside your family business to jump-start innovation.
- Enhance your company culture with progressive approaches to inclusive leadership.
- Drive effective change management and innovation to keep your family business competitive and future-oriented.
Program Faculty
Participant Testimonials
The way we learn is very different — we have speakers, we have focus groups, we have cases. Doing a simulation and thinking about how I could apply it in the real world is really different and I would recommend the program to anyone. People from Quebec should get out of their comfort zone and come to Ontario!
Justine Whissell, Uniroc GroupComing here with my brothers was so valuable because we get to talk on our breaks about what we learned in the classrooms. It’s imperative that the three of us are on the same page. Being here together, we get to take it all in and build that alignment.
Amit Randhawa, Randhawa FarmsYou get to be more involved, you talk to different people, and the faculty helped me feel comfortable with the questions I was asking. It's a very inclusive environment. You get to bounce ideas off of your peers and learn from their experience — because they do have a vast wealth of it.
Eric Stang, Gincor WerxEverybody thinks they’re in a unique position. In reality, we’re in the same spot. So we can all lean on each other — building relationships and enhancing what we learned in the room.
Tyson Huttema, K&R PoultryThe program has exceeded all of my expectations. I’ve done enough leadership training, but none has been focused on the niche topic of the family business itself and that’s the most important piece. I was able to benchmark where I am in my family business and how I can transition from generation to generation and go to the next level.
Stratis Gavrilidis, Sherwood ElectromotionFees
$7,500 CAD
The $12,000 program fee for FamilyShift has been subsidized due to the generous support of KPMG Private Enterprise and the Business Families Centre at Ivey Business School.
Program fees cover program materials, meals, and hotel accommodations for sessions held at our Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre. For sessions delivered in Toronto and Calgary, fees include program materials, breakfast, and lunch; participants are responsible for accommodations and meals outside of program hours. Program fees are tax-exempt.
FAQs
To obtain more information, please click on the Request Information button and fill out the required fields. A KPMG Private Enterprise professional will follow up with you to continue the application process. If you have any questions, please contact Pat Madden at pmadden@kpmg.ca.
Organizations and participants in Canada may benefit from the Canada Job Grant or the Canada Training Credit to offset a portion of program fees. Visit our Funding Resources page to learn more.
FamilyShift is offered once annually at our London campus. Contact us to receive a notification of new dates for specific programs.
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