Vision
The Institute is the flagship academic institute of the Drucker School. It seeks to attract students and family business members throughout the world with programs that address the issues and opportunities of family businesses, including managing the family name, succession planning, innovation, corporate responsibility, governance, finance, and sustainability.
Mission
We use Peter Drucker’s principles to develop leaders who run sustainable family businesses that can be passed on to future generations and make a positive contribution toward a functioning society.
The Institute provides access to continuing education and professional growth opportunities for thriving family businesses confronted with challenges and are looking to educate the next generation. All events hosted by the Institute are open to family-owned and managed businesses who become Institute members and Institute sponsorship partners.
The education sessions and programs are reflective of the needs shared with us by families both locally and globally, and include valuable input from other family members, sponsorship partners, alumni, students, and respected non-family executives.
Meet the Director
Dave Specht is the Director of the Drucker School Global Family Business Institute, a meeting place for the world’s most influential business-owning families. Dave’s personal mission is to preserve family relationships and perpetuate family businesses.
Prior to the Drucker School, Dve served as the National Development Manager for the Family Dynamics team at Wells Fargo Private Bank, where he was responsible for the development and delivery of Family Dynamics training to 2,500 of their top advisors.
Before that he founded Advising Generations, a consulting company to multi-generational family companies. He also served on the faculty at the University of Nebraska where he lectured and developed the curriculum for their Family Business Management program. Dave is the author of The Family Business Whisperer and is an oft-quoted subject matter expert on issues related to family business continuity, leadership and management transitions and family dynamics during wealth transitions. Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Brigham Young University-Idaho and a Master’s Degree in Tax and Financial Planning from San Diego State University.
He resides in Basin City, WA with his wife Taneil and their six children.