The Power of Inclusion in Family Business - by Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez & Miguel Ángel Gallo (Hardcover)

About the Book

The Power of Inclusion in Family Business is a guide for grooming the next generation of responsible women owners in family businesses, so they can thrive, achieve, and become leaders and wealth stewards in their multigenerational family firms and family offices.

Book Synopsis

The Power of Inclusion in Family Business is a guide for grooming the next generation of responsible women owners in family businesses, so they can thrive, achieve, and become leaders and wealth stewards in their multigenerational family firms and family offices.

Review Quotes

The Power of Inclusion in Family Business provides an insightful roadmap for implementing diversity and genuine inclusion in family-owned businesses. The book guides us on how companies should prepare its next generation female leaders, shining a light on recognizing and consciously involving daughters in the succession line. More than a trend, diversity and inclusiveness are major assets for family enterprises to thrive and survive in a fast-changing world.

--Rita Nabeiro, Grupo Nabeiro - Delta Cafés Board Member, Portugal

Smart and extremely timely! Rosa Nelly and Miguel Ángel remind us of our responsibility, as entrepreneurs, to be involved in understanding and addressing correctly issues like inclusion, equity and diversity. Smart, extremely timely and brilliantly supported by great family business experts, this book leads us into a more inclusive environment.

--José Antonio Fernández Carbajal, Executive Chairman of the Board, FEMSA, México

This book is an outstanding collection of equity and inclusion research in family firms, being a valuable guide book for practitioners. The Power of Inclusion in Family Business addresses critical, family and business-related issues that influence and shape the sustainability of 21st century family companies.

--Su-Lee Tsai, Former Chairman & President; Board Member of Eastern Advertising Co., Ltd., Taiwan.

This wonderful collection of essays on women in business families is a new reference in the family business field. Truly insightful and impactful, this is a must read for members of business families, advisors, and scholars alike.

--John A. Davis, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA

Through facts, professional experiences and rigorous research, this easy-to-read book stands as a ground-breaking contribution to the family business field and practice, highlighting how women owners' inclusion is strategic, profitable and harmonizing. A must read for families-in-business and their family firms' executives, board members and advisors.

--Andrea Grobocopatel, President of FLOR Foundation and AMPATEL, Argentina

Using a precise, powerful and simple language, this book is a practical guide not only for planning and implementing family business succession processes but also, and more importantly, to prepare daughters for occupying leadership positions in their family-owned firms. Female next generation members will find in this text a description of what is expected of them as potential responsible business owners and a roadmap to achieve it.

The Power of Inclusion in Family Business offers an especially interesting view on the role of family business most trusted advisors, who by means of well-thought, gender sensitive mentoring processes, can help families-in-business train and empower next gen women owners so they can achieve the necessary moral authority to influence consensus building about what is reasonable, legitimate, beneficial and authentic for the family enterprise.

--Javier Ormazabal Echevarria, President & CEO at VELATIA Group, Spain

About the Author

Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez, is CEO of Trevinyo-Rodríguez; Associates (Mexico, Spain, Italy, USA), Founding Director of the countrywide Tec de Monterrey Family Business Center, Former Holder of the ITESM Family Business Research Chair, Author of the bestseller Family Business: A Latin-American Perspective (Spanish), Visiting Professor of numerous Universities around the world, Most Trusted Advisor and Board Member of leading Family-Owned Companies and Family Offices.

Miguel Ángel Gallo, is Emeritus Professor of General Management at IESE Business School, Spain, where he served as Full Professor (1975-2003) and IESE PhD Program Director (1980-1990). He was Founding Director and Chairman of the first Family Business Chair in Europe (from 1987 until September 2003). He is fellow of the Royal European Academy of Doctors, the Strategic Management Society, Honorary President of IFERA and Board Member of prominent Family Firms.