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Family Business Audiocast

Family Business Audiocast

Written by: R. Adam Smith
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The Family Business Audiocast series is a premier podcast that brings together the foremost experts from the global family office and business ecosystem. The series has quickly become one of the leading global podcasts in its field, reaching hundreds of thousands of listeners and subscribers worldwide.
Each episode offers an exclusive deep dive into the inner workings of family businesses and single-family offices, exploring key topics such as governance, culture, corporate strategy, growth, and mission alignment.
Our conversation covers the experiences with, and the importance of, high-quality advisors, investors, partners, governance, and essential resources and vendors for family boards and owners.
Founded 2022™
Created, Produced, and Owned by R. Adam Smith Careers Economics Personal Success
Episodes
  • Episode 4: Ruby Hugueny on the Family Business Enterprise

    Episode 4: Ruby Hugueny on the Family Business Enterprise
    Jun 20 2023
    Ruby Hugueny, Geneva-based family office consultant with over 40 years advising high-net-worth families including BIC and LVMH, joins R. Adam Smith to explore what it actually takes to run a family office at the highest level of trust and discretion. Hugueny argues that confidentiality isn't a policy but a lived discipline, built through NDAs, strict access controls, and constant staff training, the kind of infrastructure that lets a consultant become genuinely indispensable to a family. She walks through her path from crisis-era Crédit Lyonnais to building a private family office inside BIC's mansion, then into LVMH and a stint at the FIA alongside Jean Todt, contrasting a utilitarian family brand with a luxury house that "sells itself." A practical conversation on art acquisition strategy, restoring a classified Parisian mansion in nine months, and why the third generation of family businesses so often struggles to stay as hungry as the first.
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    35 mins
  • Episode 5: Navigating Family Office Management with Harvard's Christina Wing

    Episode 5: Navigating Family Office Management with Harvard's Christina Wing
    Jul 11 2023
    In this episode, host R. Adam Smith welcomes Christina Wing, founder of Wingspan Legacy Partners and Harvard Business School faculty member. Christina shares her expertise on family enterprise legacies, drawing from her experience as a former CEO of a family wealth office and her work at Harvard. She explores how families can design meaningful legacies through effective communication, succession planning, and philanthropy. Christina emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between individual and joint family legacies while highlighting how family office services can create societal impact through philanthropic initiatives and long-term planning horizons.
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    34 mins
  • Episode 6: Building Strategic Family Enterprise Systems with Richard Wolkowitz

    Episode 6: Building Strategic Family Enterprise Systems with Richard Wolkowitz
    Jul 24 2023
    R. Adam Smith welcomes Richard Wolkowitz, founder of Xylogenesis, a family advisory company. Drawing from decades of experience serving hundreds of families, Richard shares insights on filling the integration gap between family wealth office operations and family dynamics. He explores post-COVID shifts in next-generation engagement, emphasizing governance as the "heartbeat" of successful family enterprise systems. Richard addresses differences between US and European family office services, examines multi-family office advantages, and discusses how compensation structures can align family and executive interests. The conversation concludes with perspectives on legacy planning and emerging collaboration trends.
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    34 mins
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