Programs & Events

This course develops an overall understanding of the nature, uniqueness and significance of family enterprises around the world.

Join FBA and the Auckland family business community as Brett Russell and Kerin Russell-Smith welcome you to The Churchill, a luxury rooftop gin and cocktail bar, and one of the Russell Property Group's developments. They will share how the Russell family have grown from their first business, Stresscrete in the 1930s, into a leading group of companies providing end-to-end construction and property solutions across New Zealand.

Advisor Connects bring FBA Advisor Members together for meaningful collaboration, learning, and networking. Each event centres on a key theme, featuring expert insights and practical discussions. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded peers, broaden your understanding of other disciplines, and explore new ways to work together to support your family business clients.

Advisor Connects bring FBA Advisor Members together for meaningful collaboration, learning, and networking. Each event centres on a key theme, featuring expert insights and practical discussions. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded peers, broaden your understanding of other disciplines, and explore new ways to work together to support your family business clients.

Forum Group Participants are welcomed to join in learning about Family Business Dynamics: When family business relationships get messy.

Advisor Connects bring FBA Advisor Members together for meaningful collaboration, learning, and networking. Each event centres on a key theme, featuring expert insights and practical discussions. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded peers, broaden your understanding of other disciplines, and explore new ways to work together to support your family business clients.

Forum Group Participants are welcomed to join in learning about AI, data and robotics: from hype to ROI, autonomous agentic AI, governance and regulation.

Advisor Connects bring FBA Advisor Members together for meaningful collaboration, learning, and networking. Each event centres on a key theme, featuring expert insights and practical discussions. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded peers, broaden your understanding of other disciplines, and explore new ways to work together to support your family business clients.

Research indicates family businesses consistently out-perform non-family businesses in terms of return on investment and market value. So what are the advantages available to a family business that can make them more successful?

Join us in learning about Managing Mental Health in the Workplace: A Leadership Guide to Prevention and Wellbeing. Open to Forum Group Participants.

Advisor Connects bring FBA Advisor Members together for meaningful collaboration, learning, and networking. Each event centres on a key theme, featuring expert insights and practical discussions. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded peers, broaden your understanding of other disciplines, and explore new ways to work together to support your family business clients.

Advisor Connects bring FBA Advisor Members together for meaningful collaboration, learning, and networking. Each event centres on a key theme, featuring expert insights and practical discussions. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded peers, broaden your understanding of other disciplines, and explore new ways to work together to support your family business clients.

Unwind after a busy day and have a chat with other family businesses and advisors from across the FBA community. Meet new people, learn from each other and enjoy some great company over some drinks and nibbles.

The Family Business Dynamics Series has four individual workshops on offer, held online monthly across February - May 2026. Register for 1, 2, 3 or all 4 workshops to get the most out of the series. The second workshop in the series, helps you to appreciate generational mindsets and tailor your communication to build stronger, more respectful relationships.

Join FBA and the Christchurch family business community as the Francis family shares how they established and grew their aggregates and concrete business over 70 years, sharing real lessons, insights and the challenges of running a multigenerational family business.

Join us in learning about Psychological Safety: A leader's playbook for compliance. Open to Forum Group Participants.

Advisor Connects bring FBA Advisor Members together for meaningful collaboration, learning, and networking. Each event centres on a key theme, featuring expert insights and practical discussions. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded peers, broaden your understanding of other disciplines, and explore new ways to work together to support your family business clients.

Join us as we introduce FBA to the Geelong and surrounding communities. Come and hear from a panel of business leaders and advisors, meet new people, learn from each other and enjoy great company over some drinks and nibbles.

Research indicates family businesses consistently out-perform non-family businesses in terms of return on investment and market value. So what are the advantages available to a family business that can make them more successful?

Forum Group Participants are welcomed to join in learning about People Power: Exploring talent acquisition, retention, alignment and more.