Executive Courses for Family Businesses
You are not alone!
The disadvantage of all Czech entrepreneurs is the fact that the communist regime broke the tradition of family businesses, which do not have experience with the change of generations in family businesses. When the founder of the company gets old, he/she often wishes to leave the business to own children. But only a third of family businesses succeed in this process.
With us, you can learn to detect all potential problems in time, ask yourself the right questions and look for the best solutions.
Lecturers
Prof. Jiří Hnilica, Ph.D., founder of the Centre for Family Businesses at VŠE, has long been professionally focused on corporate strategies and family business. He is the author and co-author of key programmes at the Centre, which connect research, practice, and advisory services for entrepreneurial families.
Ing. Martin Jurek, Ph.D., Academic Director of the Centre and an active member of a family business, brings personal experience from the family business environment and applies proven, practical approaches when working with other entrepreneurial families. He believes in the power of family agreements, functional relationships, and long-term planning.
Together, they will help you identify what is important but often left unsaid – and find a way to start talking and acting on it.
Tailor-made Courses
The educational courses are always perfectly tailored to the needs of the business family. They take place in full-day or half-day blocks focused on the development of personal and professional knowledge, skills and competences with a focus on business and strategy in family businesses.
The courses are very interactive, use modern educational procedures and are implemented exclusively with the owners and successors of family businesses.
Who we help?
The courses are for all business families who want their company to remain a shared opportunity, not a source of tension.
Our courses are for you if you are:
- a business founder preparing to hand over the business to the next generation and you want to do it properly, without skipping steps;
- a successor who feels decisions are being made without you and you’re looking for space and trust;
- a child of an entrepreneur who doesn’t want to take over the business, but also doesn’t want to disappoint or damage family relationships;
- a familythat knows prevention is better than crisis management and wants to have open, calm conversations about what truly matters.
If you’d rather learn from others’ mistakes than make your own, we’ll guide you through them before they happen.
Join the course as a family
Real change happens when everyone is at the table.
Our courses have the greatest impact when experienced together, as a family. It’s the shared moments, different perspectives, and open conversations that spark the kind of change no one can achieve alone.
Why do we recommend attending as a family?
- People who’ve been avoiding each other start talking.
- Trust begins to grow across generations, often for the first time, outside their roles as founder, successor, or “just the child.”
- You make time to step back, away from daily routines and constant problem-solving.
- The next generation stops quietly adapting and starts speaking up and co-deciding.
- Parents finally hear what their children have been trying to say, sometimes with the help of other participants.
