Family firms gather for seminars and forums created specifically to meet the member families’ needs. Some of the topics to be covered in the programs include:

What We Cover

Succession & Legacy Planning

  • Succession planning
  • Unexpected transitions
  • Establishing requirements and monitoring for succession
  • Choosing professional services
  • Handling low basis assets

Wealth & Tax Strategy

  • Estate and tax planning
  • Family wealth management
  • Valuation issues—up-to-date IRS rulings
  • Handling illiquid real estate positions
  • Insurance planning
  • Investments

Family Dynamics

  • Communication and conflict resolution
  • Intergenerational relations
  • Training the next generation
  • Sibling and cousin rivalry
  • Husband and wives working together

Governance & Advisors

  • Compensation strategies
  • Hiring outside managers/directors
  • Managing non-family managers and employees
  • Using outside boards and advisors
  • The role of trusts and partnerships in family business
an empty seminar room, rows of rattan chairs facing a wooden lectern with an open ledger book on it, a presentation screen with a simple line-chart motif, warm afternoon light through jalousie windows, palm frond
Seminars & Forums in Session
three generations of a family business gathered around a koa-wood table in conversation — an elder, a middle-aged adult, and a young adult
Multi-Generation Conversations
Small-Group Discussions
Small-Group Discussions

Mission

The mission of the Family Business Center of Hawaiʻi is “equipping, educating, and celebrating families in business.” The Center provides opportunities for families to address many of the challenges they face today so that they can survive and thrive through future generations.

  • An opportunity for owners and managers of family businesses to interact directly with the country’s leading experts, researchers, consultants, and professional advisors who know and work with family businesses.
  • A forum for Hawaiʻi’s leading family business owners to exchange information, ideas, and experiences between families.
  • A national and international network of family business owners where ideas and experiences can be shared and opportunities presented for mentoring and internships for future leaders.
  • Access to the growing body of knowledge and research that enhances the understanding of the special issues and circumstances relating to family business in general and Hawaiʻi in particular.
  • Programs with experienced family business professionals that will strengthen the many relationships unique to family business.
  • Information and programs to increase awareness in Hawaiʻi about the unique value of family businesses.

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