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How do you grow your business and strengthen your family relationships?

Learn how from a unique resource: successful business families

The Family Dimension – Strength or Potential Weakness?
Do you know how, in large family firms, if family members do not gain the right knowledge and experience, it leads to poor choices, potential for family conflict and damage to the business legacy?
What if you had the potential solutions at your fingertips?
What if you had direct access to the answers to whatever family business issues were on your mind, day-by-day, from leading family owners and experts?
Connecting you to a unique and trusted resource: successful business families
We connect you to other business families across the world, to learn from each other, hear from top experts and create business opportunities together.
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We do this in focused, enjoyable and time-efficient ways including: conferences, peer-to-peer advice, teleseminars, seminars, coaching and business meetings.
Please enjoy the site and learn what you could do to create a better business and a stronger family.
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Linking Family Businesses
Linking family businesses
More about how you can link with other family businesses
Would you like to make your family business more successful by linking with other families on specific business opportunities; growing your core businesses by international links; cost-saving projects and ideas?
Family Business Forum
Family Business Forum
Learn about the Family Business Forum
Would you like the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and learn from other families from a wide range of business lines and from all over the globe?
The next Family Business Forum is May 19-21, 2010.
Member Area
The Family Business Circle was created exclusively for families that own large family firms or family offices who have participated in our Family Business Forum, meetings and seminars. It allows you to keep in contact, create peer-to-peer groups and share business opportunities (Please login or ask for a new password):
Family Business Circle
The Business Momentum Club
More about the Business Momentum Club
What if, year-round, you could access the solutions to whatever family business issues were on your mind, directly from the owners of leading business families?
Training, Coaching & Consulting
Training, Coaching & Consulting
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Are you looking for a complete solution to help with your family business strategic priorities that is highly cost-effective and will improve the way you do business?
World-class facilitators and coaches
Dr. Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez
A family business expert and advisor, she is the author of several books and a Senior Associate of The Family Business Consulting Group. She is an accredited Lifo® trainer and licensee.
Dr. Ivan Lansberg
One of the world's leading teachers, writers and consultants on family business, he is particularly recognised for his work on family business succession.
Peter Leach
A leading advisor, teacher and writer, he advises family owners on creating governance structures, facilitating next generation participation & drafting family constitutions.
Prof. John L. Ward
Clinical Professor of Family Enterprises, Kellogg School of Management. One of world's leading teachers, writers & consultants on family business, incl. succession, governance & philanthropy.
Prof. Ludo Van der Heyden
First Holder of Wendel Chair for the Large Family Firm, INSEAD Business School. He is also Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation.
Alan Palmer
Alan runs the Interactifs programmes, including Handling Difficult Meetings Effectively. He has over 25 years experience in advertising, marketing & strategic management consultancy.
Gerry McNulty
Gerry is Loedstar’s communications & customer service expert. She has spent over 20 yrs speaking in public and also working with individual clients, corporate in-house teams & senior executives to improve the way they present and communicate.
Graham Eisner
As a business coach, Graham has a track record of helping entrepreneurs clarify their ideas and direction. He gets family business owners to focus mainly on their business challenges & also their personal development within the business context.
Susan Kaye
Susan Kaye, a qualified counsellor & group therapist, is the founder of The Challenge of Excellence. She has worked with FB members of all generations focusing on Family Visions and Values, working relationships, sibling partnerships and cousin consortiums.
 Next Event
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
 for Business Momentum Club members
Ask the Family Owner - live telephone interview with Raymundo Leal Sr. & Jr.
By phone at 9.00 am Los Angeles * noon New York * 4:00pm London * 5:00pm Paris * 8:00pm Dubai

A 1-hour live call on Letting Go Gracefully and Taking Over Successfully; How a Mexican Family Firm Transitioned from First to Second Generation, with Raymundo Leal,Sr., Founder, Organizacion al Servicio de la Probreza Extrema, and Raymundo Leal, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Transcapital S.A. de C.V.

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  Testimonials
“ Joining the Loedstar conferences means for me a valuable enrichment of my network. ”
Chris Brenninkmeyer, Germany
“ The speakers are chosen from the most experienced and successful families who have their members speak of their own experiences in an open and frank manner. ”
Abdullah Adib AlZamil, Zamil Group, Saudi Arabia
“ To me, the Family Business Forum is an annual ritual that I look forward to attending. ”
Abdullah Adib AlZamil, Zamil Group, Saudi Arabia
“ At the Forum, Loedstar creates a private environment with a lot of subtlety; it is a perfect environment for interaction with other business families. ”
Carmen Tous, Accord, Spain
“ The Forum helps us to realise that both the challenges and their solutions are the same for many family businesses; we can learn so much from each other. ”
Dr. Fouad F. Alkhadra, Chairman & CEO, Dan Holding Group, Kuwait
“ Our family has participated in several Loedstar seminars. Every time, we come back feeling greatly inspired and with long lists of ideas of how to enhance the way we work together – both as a family and as a company. ”
Anneli Delmas, Laurin Maritime
“ All of us having run family businesses think our problems are unique, yet when we meet together through Loedstar we find that our issues are much more in common and by dialoguing problems become opportunities. ”
Alan Hassenfeld, Hasbro Inc.
“ Loedstar’s events provide true insight by show-casing real-life experiences from different parts of the world.....it displays a unique understanding of family business issues and is effective at giving feedback. ”
Carmen Tous, Accord, Spain
“ The Family Business Forum is an opportunity to meet with and exchange expreriences with leading business families from all over the world, in a friendly and safe environment. ”
Dr. Fouad F. Alkhadra, Chairman & CEO, Dan Holding Group, Kuwait
 Future Events
May 19-21, 2010
 for Families
Family Business Forum
The Dorchester, London
The 10th Anniversary Family Business Forum is facilitated by Prof. John L. Ward of Kellogg Business School and Peter Leach, author of "Family Businesses, The Essentials".
May 17-19, 2011
 for Families
Family Business Forum 2011
The Dorchester hotel, London
The Family Business Forum in 2011 will be facilitated by family business teacher, writer and consultant, Dr. Ivan Lansberg.
  Testimonials
“ At the Family Business Forum it is reassuring to know that we can learn from the mistakes of others and follow in their good footsteps. ”
Ms. Sara Bahamdan, Bahamdan Holding, Saudi Arabia
“ Truly, my experiences whether they be in London or in Dubai, the people that I have met through Loedstar have been exceptional. ”
Alan Hassenfeld, Hasbro Inc.
“ However the most unique aspect for a Family Member is the ability to interact with a plethora of other Families, which come from every corner of the world. ”
Fouad M. Makhzoumi, Chairman, Future Group, UAE
“ Loedstar is truly on the cutting edge of bringing together family businesses and wonderful mentors from around the world. ”
Alan Hassenfeld, Hasbro Inc.
“ I would recommend Loedstar to any business family interested in maintaining their legacy and values across the generations. ”
3rd gen. German family entrepreneur
“ The Family Business Forums are a unique insight for Families at every stage in their evolution, from founding members all the way to some who we met which span over 8 generations. ”
Fouad M. Makhzoumi, Chairman, Future Group, UAE
“ Members of business families attending the events feel a sense of security in being among peers purely for the cause of learning. .....this sort of atmosphere is rather unique and quite refreshing. ”
Abdullah Adib AlZamil, Zamil Group, Saudi Arabia
“ The Forum addresses both business & personal issues impacting families.... and the strategies needed to sustain business into the future whilst preserving the integrity of Family's values and traditions. ”
Fouad M. Makhzoumi, Chairman, Future Group, UAE
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