We are thrilled to have Inge Plautz join us to discuss how boards of family-owned businesses are navigating the current rate of change.

Inge Plautz is the President, CEO, and Lead Practitioner of Forums for Family Business, an organization with a 40-year legacy of supporting multigenerational family enterprises.

A champion for growth through connection, Inge is deeply committed to peer learning as a catalyst for resilience. She has designed and facilitated numerous CEO forums and cross-disciplinary networks, helping leaders move beyond static assumptions to co-create insight through shared inquiry. Beyond her advisory work, she serves as the designated Governance Expert for the University of Wisconsin–Madison Family Business Center and is a Certified Private Company Director.

At the heart of her work is a mission to transform governance into a "living, breathing system" that empowers families to navigate generational change with both clarity and heart.

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We’re excited to welcome Jeanne C. Meister, an independent global HR consultant and pioneer in the future of work. She has founded and successfully exited two influential HR peer networks, Corporate University Xchange (corpu.com) and Future Workplace (futureworkplace.com), both serving senior HR and corporate learning leaders.

Jeanne has received top honors in workplace learning, including ATD’s Distinguished Contribution in Workplace Learning Award and the Learning & Performance Institute’s Colin Steed Award. Her thought leadership appears in outlets such as CLO Magazine, the Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and HR Executive, and she serves as Vice Chair of Excelsior University’s board of trustees.

With deep expertise in Employee Experience, AI for HR, Coaching, Talent Transformation, and Hybrid Work Environments, Jeanne brings a powerful and timely perspective on the future of work.

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We’re honored to welcome Ayelet Fishbach, a leading expert on human motivation and decision-making, and the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her research reveals how people achieve ambitious goals, spanning self-control, intrinsic motivation, feedback, patience, and healthy habit formation. A past president of the Society for the Science of Motivation and the International Social Cognition Network, Fishbach is the award-winning author of Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation. Her work has earned top honors, including SESP’s Best Dissertation and Career Trajectory Awards, the Society for Consumer Psychology’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, the Fulbright Educational Foundation Award, and the University of Chicago’s Provost’s Teaching Award. She writes and speaks about the practical science behind exercising, healthy eating, studying, working, and saving, turning hard-but-worthy goals into achievable outcomes.

Tune in to learn how to design feedback that compounds over time, and how to leverage wisdom to sustainably boost motivation. Let’s dive in.

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