More at Stake: The Family Business Podcast

Amelia Renkert-Thomas: Family Business Governance Consultant•www.moreatstake.com

Family business insight and interviews from thought leaders in the family-enterprise universe. Presented by award-winning family business consultant Amelia Renkert-Thomas, More at Stake: The Family Business Podcast offers family business owners and advisors alike a repository of deeper, more meaningful information on governance design, interpersonal dynamics, multi-generational business strategy, and more.

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Family Business Relationship Challenges: Managing Boundaries

In this episode, Keith Michaelson and Don Opatrny of The Lovins Group introduce and discuss the first of six key challenges that couples face when they are part of a family business: managing boundaries. Don and Keith walk us through why boundaries can be challenging for couples in the context of family business, the kinds of boundary conflicts that can occur—what they look like, how they can feel—and then offer some ideas and tools that can help couples begin to manage their boundary challenges...

Feb 10, 2021•20 min

Family Meetings: Purpose, Pitfalls, & Practices

Don Opatrny and Keith Michaelson of the Lovins Group join The Family Business Podcast to discuss the role of family meetings in family enterprises and offer some practical ideas for improving your family’s family meetings. Family meetings play an important role in family business governance. They are an opportunity to grow the capacity of the family to meet challenges together, as a family, and create space to succeed in what the Don and Keith refer to as, “the task of family.” We will explore w...

Sep 08, 2020•27 min

Enterprise Capital as a Competitive Advantage: An Interview with David Worth

In this episode, David Worth sat down with Engaged Ownership associate, Nathaniel Squires, to discuss how his family’s enterprise, Worth Industries, has turned a simple strategic concept into a robust form of Enterprise Capital. David is Chair and former CEO of Worth Industries, and Executive Director and our colleague at The Family Enterprise Center of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. New to the podcast? Be sure to check out our last episode, “5 Steps to Enterprise Capital” for a ...

Aug 13, 2020•27 min

5 Steps to Enterprise Capital

Human Capital is essential to a family business. But Human Capital can also be fragile. How do you ensure that the essential know-how that makes your business uniquely successful gets carried on? How do you scale your competitive advantage? How do you protect your most important capital? You make it into Enterprise Capital. What is Enterprise Capital? Enterprise Capital is all the unique know-how embodied within a business that allows a product to be made or a service to be delivered better than...

Jul 24, 2020•8 min

Human Capital and Collaboration: An Interview with Jane Sommers-Kelly

Trust | Listen | Respect In this episode, Executive Leadership Coach Jane Sommers-Kelly speaks on her three-element approach to improving collaboration and tapping into Human Capital in teams and businesses: Trust, Listen, and Respect. You and your team can use this deceptively simple concept to tackle big questions, leverage untapped Human Capital, foster collaboration, and find solutions when solutions are hard to come by. Listen in to learn more. You can learn more about Jane's work at www.JS...

Jun 04, 2020•20 min

Don Opatrny and Keith Michaelson on Managing the Experience of Guilt

Don Opatrny and Keith Michaelson of the Lovins Group join The Family Business Podcast to talk about how COVID-19 is presenting new and difficult ways guilt can manifest itself in our lives. In this interview, Keith and Don share how family business leaders are coping when feeling overwhelmed and guilty from challenges they face or decisions they may have to make. Listen in to learn more about how you might deal with these challenges. The Lovins Group works with enterprising families to maintain ...

May 14, 2020•34 min

Core Capital in the Time of COVID | Part I

Around the world, family businesses are reacting and adapting to the challenges presented by COVID-19. In our work at Engaged Ownership and Renkert Thomas Consulting, we have found enterprising families to be uniquely adept at navigating such crises. How do they do it? By finding new ways to tap into their Human Capital. Listen in to learn more about how you can tap into your Human Capital and hear some examples of how businesses are utilizing Human Capital to address their changing needs, const...

May 11, 2020•14 min

Engaged Ownership | Part IV

Engaged Ownership Part IV discusses three situations that present challenges to developing engaged ownership: when the enterprise has both managing and non-managing owners, when a trustee is also an owner, and when outside investors are owners. -

May 21, 2019•56 min

Engaged Ownership | Part III

Practicing Engaged Ownership Part III explains how family business owners do the work of practicing engaged ownership and foster and maintain engagement. Chapter 11 spells out the reasons for and benefits from developing forums in which to make decisi...

Apr 04, 2019•1 hr 11 min

Engaged Ownership | Part II

Part II: Getting Organized - Part II of Engaged Ownership provides a foundation for family business owners seeking to increase engagement. You will learn about the complex relationships among owners, board of directors, management, and family,

Mar 07, 2019•2 hr 13 min

An Interview with Ken McCracken

The Concept of Intention - Ken McCracken joins More at Stake: The Family Business Podcast to discuss the concept of Intention in family business ownership. Intention shapes the way a family interacts with its enterprise and has significant impact on ...

Jul 30, 2018•21 min

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