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Resilience and Family Business workshop

The workshop took place on 28-29 April 2022 in the Lancaster Castle. This workshop focuses on the concept of resilience and its multiple interpretations through the lenses of planet, place and people – all within the context of family business. The group of 40 participants include representatives of family business (individually and representative bodies); policy makers, and academic contributors. The workshop will expose participants to multiple perspectives on resilience and explore how these perspectives - and the conversations they engender - inform our collective understanding and potential future actions.
Keynote 1: The planet and resilience
- Henrik Österblom (Science Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre)
- Duncan Pollard (Hon. Professorial Fellow, Pentland Centre)
Keynote 2: Places, people and resilience
- Susan Murray (Director The David Hume Institute)
Panel one: Family businesses at the heart of local economic resilience
- Sue Howorth (Director, The Family Business Community)
- Miruna Radu-Lefebvre (Director, Family Entrepreneurship & Society Chair Audencia Business School)
- Mel Wilkes (Head of Research, Work Foundation)
Panel two: Gender dynamics and their relationship to family business, wellbeing and resilience
- Ellie Hamilton (LUMS)
- Sue Marlow (Nottingham Business School)
- Maura McAdam (Dublin City University)