Outlier Leadership: How Unlikely Candidates Can Become Transformative Family Leaders
Megan Helzner and Tom Bonner are joined by Hilary Hamm of Continental Resources to present this session as part of the 2023 FFI Global Conference.
Like families themselves, family governance is tricky. Often, there is someone who sees themselves as an “outlier.” While those closest—geographically or otherwise—to the founder or business are natural leadership candidates, we see that outliers enhance family governance systems. Joined by one such leader and using related research, this session explores outliers’ ability to engage and have impact. We look at the role of “outliers” in families: why outside-ness positions them for leadership, what they bring to family dynamics and governance that “insiders” do not, and how they uniquely are suited to deepen engagement of both