Ivan Lansberg

About the Author

Ivan Lansberg is the co-founder at LGA, where he advises complex family enterprises worldwide. Over the last four decades, he has made significant contributions to the understanding of family business governance and succession. He was one of the founders of the Family Firm Institute (FFI) and the first editor of its professional journal, Family Business Review. After receiving bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, Lansberg taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Business. He became a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Organization and Management for seven years before going into consulting. His books Succeeding Generations and Generation to Generation were both published by Harvard Business School Press and have been widely praised as landmark works. Lansberg is a frequent speaker at family business programs organized by universities and industry groups. He is on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management.