The Great British Family Business Conference 2027
About this Event
Join us in London for our flagship event that celebrates the significant contribution that family firms make in terms of employment, income generation and wealth creation. This inspirational event brings the family business community together sharing insights on all manner of topics to help others achieve their family business goals.
Book your seat for what is always a day packed with learning with plenty of opportunities to make new connections during the networking sessions.
The Programme For The Day*
8.30am Registration and Coffee
9.00am Welcome and Introduction - Paul Andrews, Founder & CEO, Family Business United
9.20am Opening Keynote - Five Generations at Work - How We Win Togtether For Good, Rebecca Robins CCMI
For the first time in history, we have up to five generations at work. In the context of a world in flux and polycrisis, our diversity is a powerful force multiplier for good, if we debunk the stereotypes and know how to unlock it.
Five Generations at Work: How we win together, for good explores how to maximise the dynamics of our generational diversity to create more collaborative and competitive organisations. An energising and pragmatic keynote, this session unpacks six years of research and work with organisations and individuals who are taking progressive action to lead and gain competitve advantage from the value of generational diversity.
Rebecca Robins is an expert in high-performance leadership, cultures of excellence, and intergenerational talent. She has over 20 years’ experience with organisations across Europe, the US and Asia, and in senior leadership roles at leading brand powerhouses of Omnicom and Interbrand.
Working across matrixed businesses, family businesses and founders, she partners with leaders and owners to maximise the potential of their organisations and talent, resulting in more collaborative, competitive and resilient organisations.
She is particularly known for her high-energy and high-impact work with next gen talent and rising leaders, and she teaches at world-leading business schools and leadership institutes including Cambridge University and Oxford University.
Rebecca is the author of three best-selling books, including the award-nominated “Five Generations at Work: How we win together, for good” (Wiley) and “Meta-luxury: Brands and the Culture of Excellence” (Macmillan), and is called upon as an expert commentator for leading media including the BBC.
9.50am - Family Business Insight - Jennie Johnson MBE
Jennie Johnson MBE is a serial entrepreneur, exited founder and the Co-Founder and CEO of Vets at Home, a national home veterinary care network supporting pet owners, vets and pet care partners through end-of-life care.
Jennie founded Kids Allowed in 2003 and grew it into one of the UK’s leading nursery groups before successfully exiting the business in 2020. During that journey, she built an award-winning organisation known for exceptional quality, service and customer experience. She was the first woman to win CEO of the Year at the UK Private Business Awards in 2017 and was named UK Businesswoman of the Year in 2019.
In 2024, Jennie launched Vets at Home to bring the same standards of compassion, trust and operational excellence into the veterinary sector. The business provides dignified at-home end-of-life care for pets, while building a trusted national network for veterinary surgeons and partnerships with practices, crematoria, insurers and others across the pet care space.
Jennie is also committed to supporting and educating pet owners around one of the most difficult and taboo subjects in pet ownership. Many families feel vulnerable and alone when facing the decision to say goodbye, yet around 92% of owners will need tomake an end-of-life decision for their pet. Her ambition is simple: to make saying goodbye feel calmer, clearer and more supported for families, while creating the vets’ favourite network to work with.
Jennie will share her passion for creating businesses with a purpose by sharing her story with us.
10.20am An Audience With Charles Hassall, Falcon Contract Flooring
As the Managing Director of Falcon Contract Flooring, Charles is a true entrepreneur whose vision has propelled the company to its position as the UK’s leading contract flooring specialist. With 20 years of industry experience, he leads with a hands-on 'give a shit philosophy' and a commitment to excellence that ensures no one in the industry outworks the Falcon team. Charles has cultivated a culture of extreme accountability based on his "own it" principle: when every individual takes full responsibility for their role, the collective result is flawless. His leadership is defined by integrity, a "die-on-the-sword" loyalty to his clients, and a belief that long-term success is built on transparent, two-way street relationships.
Charles will share hsi vision, the way that the culture has evolved and how their values have been distilled into meaasurable KPI's and a system that engenders collective success.
10.45am - Family Business Insight
Speaker will be announced in due course.
11.15am Coffee and Networking
11.45am - Family Business Matters
An update on the latest developments from Family Business United, key research findings and all the latest news from the world of family business.
12.15pm Table Talk Panel Discussion - Understanding, Creating and Measuring Social Value in Family Firms
Our panel of experts will discuss the broader impact of family firms and the positive, quantifiable impact an organisation has on society, going beyond its bottom line, specifically with respect to how they improve local communities, the economy and the environment. For many family firms this is part of their DNA and giving back and supporting the communities in which they operate is a core piece of their purpose. We will explore the topic, nature of projects undetaken and the why behind the actions with our panel of speakers.
Our panel members include:
- TBC
1.15pm Lunch and Networking
2.15pm Workshops - Each delegate is able to select and attend one of the workshops that run concurrently.
Workshop 1 - Succession Planning
Workshop 2 - Rebranding Third Generation Family Businesses
This workshop will explore the journey of Carrs Pasties and Dunsters Farm as they navigated the rebranding of their third generation family firms. Matt Carr and Hannah Barlow will join us to share their insights in this interactive session.
Workshop 3 - Winning in Family Business Disputes: How to Prevent Conflict, Navigate Succession and Resolve Disputes while Protecting Value.
Robin Somerville grew up inside a family business. His own family ran a small business that, like many, was both the source of the family’s identity and the source of much of its tension. That early experience informs the practical, human-centred focus of his recent book, 'Winning in Family Business Disputes.' As a practising barrister, mediator, investigator and fee-paid judge, he now resolves the disputes that other families did not catch in time, and helps the ones that did catch them put structures in place to prevent the next one.
In this workshop Robin will share his thoughts on why family business disputes are different from any other commercial dispute, why they happen, what to do when they arrive, what the law can and cannot do about them, and how to come out of one with the business intact and, where possible, the family too.
Workshop 4 - TBC
Workshop 5 - TBC
3.00pm Afternoon Tea and Networking
3.20pm Family Business Insight
3.45pm Closing Keynote
Speaker will be announced in due course.
4.30pm - Closing Remarks - Paul Andrews, Founder & CEO, Family Business United
*Programme subject to change
OUR EVENT SPONSORS
Events like these are supported by a range of sponsors and partners and we are delighted to confirm the following sponsors and partners of The Great British Family Business Conference 2027:
Where is it happening?
GBP 90.00 to GBP 892.67
