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Invited talks and workshops

2025

Women in Family Business: Navigating Complexity and Opportunity

  • Hosted by Family Enterprise Canada, in affiliation with the Family Business Institute and Diversity Institute. Event held on campus with students, alumni and  Family Enterprise Canada members.

Barbera, F., Goldstein, J. Family Businesses: Unique Attributes and Challenges

  • 2025 Canadian Council of Small Business Entrepreneurship (CCSBE) Conference. Mississauga, Ontario 

Evolution of Family Enterprise

Family Business Succession

Family Business: Unique Attributes and Challenges 

  • Diversity Institute and Family Business Institute Webinar series.

2024

  • 2024 Television appearance (OMNI News Italian): How Canadian family businesses will fare in the face of Trump's proposed tariffs? 

Sale vs. Succession

Relationships Matter! Diving into Self-Assessment and Its Impact on Relationships in Your Family

    ▪   On behalf of the Bertarelli Institute for Family Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Online (2024).

2023

2023 Podcast (Family Firm Institute): Differences Among Family Firms - What the Research Shows (external link, opens in new window) .

Succession Planning and Family Businesses: Strategic Renewal in a Rapidly Changing Environment

  • Ontario Road Builders Association (ORBA) Annual Convention & AGM. Toronto, Canada (2023)

2020

COVID-19: Anticipating the New Reality for Family Firms.

  • On behalf of KPMG (with Daniel Trimarchi and Keith Drewery, KPMG). Online webinar (2020).

2019 - 2018

The Values Effect: Leveraging Family Business Values as a Strategic Asset in times of Disruption

  • Family Firm Institute Global Conference (with Peter Englisch, PwC). Miami, USA (2019).

Creating a Legacy: Family Business Success(ion).

  • On behalf of Koenig Heritage. Sydney, Australia (2019).
  • On behalf of Koenig Heritage. Melbourne, Australia (2019).

Intergenerational Succession and the Internationalisation of Family SMEs: Evidence from China.

  • University of Bergamo (on behalf of the Bergamo Chamber of Commerce). Bergamo, Italy (2019).
  • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Bolzano, Italy (2019).
  • Windesheim University of Applied Sciences. Zwolle, Netherlands (2018).
  • Jönköping International Business School. Jönköping, Sweden (2018).

2016

2016 Practitioner article (Family Firm Institute): On the Origin of a Successful Successor.

Entrepreneurial Legacies and Transgenerational Entrepreneurship in Family-Owned Firms: Evidence, Theoretical Dimensions, and Future Research.

  • Windesheim University of Applied Sciences. Zwolle, Netherlands (2016).

2013

2013 Podcast (Family Firm Institute): Do We Need to Use an Accountant? The Sales Growth and Survival Benefits to Family SMEs