The Family Business Executive Forum™ Presents
From Artificial Harmony to Authentic Power
Rewriting Your Family’s Future
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
12pm - 1pm ET
Save Your Spot for October 15th, 12pm ET, Live via Zoom
Why Attend?
Too often, families inherit more than businesses—they inherit unresolved conflicts, divorces, or disputes that ripple through generations. By focusing too much on avoiding past mistakes, families create artificial harmony, suppress healthy conflict, and unknowingly repeat dysfunction. This Forum reveals how to break free and design a future built on clarity, courage, and genuine alignment.
Chris Yonker will be joined by Steve Legler, a family business advisor based in Montreal, a member of the Family Firm Institute (FFI), and author of SHIFT Your Family Business. Steve specializes in helping enterprising families navigate generational transitions with clarity, communication, and courage.
Key Takeaways
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Why echoes of past disputes and trauma still shape family businesses today.
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How artificial harmony undermines progress and creates hidden dysfunction.
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Practical tools to foster psychological safety and authentic dialogue.
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How to shift from “avoiding conflict” to “building alignment.”
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A pathway to rewrite your family’s story—so both relationships and the enterprise can thrive.
Learn From Industry Experts
Meet our host and guest speaker.
Host
Chris Yonker, CFBA
Chris works with some of the wealthiest families in the world, helping them navigate succession readiness, governance, and leadership transitions. His unique approach integrates deep inner work with strategic business frameworks. With a background as a 7th-degree black belt, NLP practitioner, and former corporate executive, Chris equips families to strengthen communication, resolve conflict, and align on a shared vision for continuity and legacy.
Guest Speaker
Steve Legler
Steve is a family business advisor who helps enterprising families navigate the complexities of working together. Drawing on his lived experience of growing up in a family business and marrying into another, along with years of advising families, he brings empathy, clarity, and practical strategies to his work. Steve focuses on creating safe spaces for honest conversations, fostering harmony, and helping families align around the legacy they want to build.
Who Should Attend?
This forum is ideal for:
- Family business owners and leaders seeking to foster a culture of openness, trust, and healthy communication across generations.
- Next-generation family members who want to build stronger relationships, express themselves authentically, and navigate sensitive topics with clarity and confidence.
- Advisors and consultants working with family enterprises looking to deepen their understanding of the emotional and relational dynamics that impact communication and decision-making.
- Anyone committed to improving communication and connection within their family business, especially when conversations feel high-stakes or emotionally charged.
The Family Business Executive Forum
The Family Business Executive Forum is a series of exclusive virtual gatherings designed specifically for family business leaders and their advisors. These forums serve as a platform to bring together the best expert advisors from around the world to share their insights on the most important topics in family business leadership. Addressing family business challenges requires a different approach. We recognize that without addressing the human dynamics within family businesses, it's nearly impossible to touch the strategic side effectively.
Confidentiality and Anonymity
We understand that matters pertaining to family and business can be especially sensitive. Hence, we host these forums as a webinar so that no one in attendance outside of our team has access to the name of any other attendees and there is no option for attendees cameras to be seen. We will open the question box for questions at various times throughout the forum, and no one outside of our team can see or access the questions. We are committed to the privacy and confidentiality of our attendees.