October 15, 2024 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am UTC-8
“This is a space I can have conversations that I can’t have anywhere else.” — Forward Global Member
Join us for the first session of Year 2 of The Family Table to explore building the non-financial qualitative capitals in your families. This session will feature governance expert, James (Jay) E. Hughes.
Jay Hughes has spent the past 5 decades working with families across the globe to uncover ways in which their financial resources can be leveraged to support the flourishing of their families and in turn, the flourishing of our societies. We will explore together why financial transfers within families and communities can so often lead to poor outcomes, and how focusing on the well-being of our families can help to change the world. The session will draw on learnings and insights from Jay’s wealth of experience as an advisor, mentor, and author of numerous books, articles and papers.
The session will be 90 minutes on October 15 at 9:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST. If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Wolverton, President of Forward Global Canada, at lisa@forward-global.org.
Biography
Mr. Hughes, a resident of Aspen, Colorado, is the author of Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family, and of Family – The Compact Among Generations, both published by Bloomberg Press, and is the co-author with Susan Massenzio and Keith Whitaker of The Cycle of the Gift: Family Wealth and Wisdom, The Voice of the Rising Generation, and Complete Family Wealth, all published by John Wiley & Sons and is a co- author with Hartley Goldstone and Keith Whitaker of Family Trusts: A Guide to Trustees, Beneficiaries, Advisors and Protectors. In addition, he has written numerous articles on family governance and wealth preservation and a series of Reflections which can be found on his website jamesehughes.com. and his foundation, jehjf.org.
He was the founder of a law partnership in New York City specializing in the representation of private clients throughout the world and is now retired from the active practice of law. Mr. Hughes was a partner of the law firms of Coudert Brothers and Jones Day. He is a current active Fellow of Wise Counsel Research Foundation a Boston based think tank providing qualitative advice to families who seek to avoid the shirt sleeves proverb and to help their families flourish.