Leading Before the Role: How Family Enterprises Shape Future Leaders

About this episode

This episode features Wendy Sage-Hayward discussing how family enterprises prepare future leaders and address continuity challenges.

In this episode, we’re joined by Wendy Sage-Hayward, Senior Consultant with The Family Business Consulting Group, where she advises family enterprises, business leaders, and boards on continuity, governance, and generational transition. She is also Academic Director at Family Enterprise Canada, leading the Family Enterprise Advisor program, and co-author of Own It!, bringing both practical and research-based insight to how families prepare the next generation and work through the questions that continuity raises across generations.

People in this episode

Host: Cory Gagnon

Guest: Wendy Sage-Hayward

Topics covered

• family enterprises
• leadership
• generational transition
• governance
• continuity

Keywords

• family business
• leadership development
• generational transition
• governance
• continuity planning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Family Business Consulting Group, Family Enterprise Canada

Books & works: Own It!

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