<strong>Chris Herschend</strong>
The best thing about YPO is member-to-member sharing and idea exchange. And what is neat about the collaboration with Business Families Foundation is they give us a framework now in multiple languages, in media that is portable and accessible all over the world.
<strong>Vicki Novikoff Barnhart</strong>
BFF is the perfect partner for YPO because BFF was started by a YPO member.
<strong>Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien</strong>
All families in the world are the same. They have the same issues whether they are in Singapore or Indonesia or the United States or Canada or Mexico.
<strong>Vicki Novikoff Barnhart</strong>
And they have the same framework that YPO employs around confidentiality and speaking from your own experience.
<strong>Nan-b de Gaspé Beaubien</strong>
These are the types of things that we have found in our family really, really help.
<strong>Vicki Novikoff Barnhart</strong>
It is a format for us to just adopt in our family business network and be able to really deliver value to our members on a global platform.
<strong>Dr. Pascale Michaud</strong>
To be able to have conversations around what are our legacy, who we are, where we come from, what is this legacy that we are carrying with us, and where are we taking it.
<strong>Terry Plochman</strong>
YPO forum, one of the things that is great about it is, you get in a group and you realize you are not alone. You realize that the problems that you have are similar to the problems that other people have. And we get the same thing within the BFF sessions. We meet other family businesses who are going through the same sorts of problems, and we know that they are not unique to our family. But importantly, we find out that there are people who have been there ahead of us, that they have developed ways to address these problems, and we can learn from them.
<strong>David Bentall</strong>
My dad actually worked side-by-side with my uncle Bob. They had the same size office, same salary, same car for forty years, and lost their relationship and were never reconciled.
<strong>Vicki Novikoff Barnhart</strong>
BFF employs the kind of multimedia tools that our young members find very attractive. It is a very simple way to get education at a deep level on topics that are so important in family business.
<strong>Kathryn McCarthy</strong>
I feel like I am always being brought in the middle of something, and I am because these are dynamic systems. And the trusted advisor for one generation may not be the trusted advisor for the other generation.
<strong>Terry Plochman</strong>
The curriculum itself is based on principles of understanding the different components that make up a family business, the family, the ownership, and the business, and finding ways to get the right types of communications going within those groups and across those groups.
<strong>Patricia Annino</strong>
Today, with family businesses, we are not just talking about the family business; we are not talking about the operating business. We are talking about all of the other spin-off infrastructure.
<strong>Joe Schmieder</strong>
The BFF content is very rich, very substantive, and it is being delivered in a way that we can appreciate. It is coming to us in technology form, through video.
<strong>Art of Family Vignette Excerpt</strong>
Honey! You are really finally thinking about coming into the family business?
<strong>Joe Schmieder</strong>
And these videos that you can access are extremely helpful in getting across the message and providing thought-starters.
<strong>Art of Family Vignette Excerpt</strong>
And Jim joining the family business is not a topic for discussion tonight. We are not prepared for this.
<strong>Joe Schmieder</strong>
It is something that YPOers or WPOers I believe will really relate to.
<strong>Haakon Lund</strong>
It gives you the structure for having the conversations, and I think that BFF gives you a road map that benefits not only you as a YPO member, but it benefits your whole family.
<strong>Chris Herschend</strong>
The partnership makes sense because Business Family Foundation has this terrific curriculum and great tools, and YPO has the perfect delivery mechanism, trusted exchange where members can share openly with one another and with their families. So, it is a perfect compliment.