Language
Portuguese
Dates
November 2, 3, 4 2025
Location
Palace Hotel Monte Real Leiria
Format
Immersion
Participant Profile
This course is recommended for Founders , Successors , Executives , Leaders of family businesses or Members of business families who seek to ensure a sustainable future for their business, enabling them in succession strategies, such as Family Governance, the balance between tradition and innovation.
What characteristics distinguish successful Business Families?
What challenges do they face?
How to adapt government, leadership and management to grow sustainably and ensure family harmony ?
Focus and Topics Covered
The Creating an Ever-Lasting Business Family course explores the importance of family relationships and dynamics , stability, business performance, managing conflicts of interest, and strategic decision-making.
This course will help participants reflect and analyze their own family and professional reality, helping them to build and maintain a business legacy across generations.
The course will be organized by IVENS and the Family Business Association led by Marina Malhão Pereira and with the support of the Rede Mulher Líder Association .
Reasons to choose the course
Dynamic and Engaging Course
Practical, interactive workshops, with simulations and debates.
Customized by family
Private Advisory Session per family included after the course.
Case studies of reference schools
Content fully translated into Portuguese and unlimited access to Moodle.
Immersive Learning
Intensive course in immersion format, with accommodation, training and meals included.
Networking
A support network of peers from other business families who have faced and continue to face similar challenges.
Individual IVENS certification
And access to practical tools and insights to face the challenges of family management.
Highlights Course 1st Edition
The 1st edition of the course Creating an Ever-Lasting Business Family took place in Leiria, at Hotel Monte Real.
Over two and a half days, several business families who embraced our challenge came together to share experiences and stories. From emotional accounts of company foundations to current challenges faced and overcome by first, second, and third generations.
Your family could be next to embark on this learning journey to navigate succession, leadership, and family governance challenges. Discover some of the most memorable moments from the first edition!
Discover the impact of this course
The fact that I met people who shared the same challenges gave me the motivation to face them.
Very well structured and thought out course. It managed to navigate through several topics that are common to everyone and from which we can learn lessons to apply in our own families.
Great systematization of fundamental themes to align us on the Board and in the Family.
In the speakers’ interventions, the presentation of real cases was very relevant.
Inputs on the best way to deal with family in a work situation.
Advice on how to protect your family to avoid negative situations in the future.
Very satisfied and I hope to participate in other future actions given the importance of the topics that IVENS works on.
Kapose Family Testimony BCS Angola
The Kapose family was one of the families that took part in the first edition of the Creating an Ever-Lasting Business Family course. In this video, they share their testimony on the impact the programme had on their family business.