CEDR Seminar
Beyond Wealth: Navigating Family, Legacy & Conflict
A seminar designed and dedicated for law firms and private client advisors. Join us for an open, thoughtful exchange with peers who recognise that the future of private client and family business work lies at the intersection of wealth, relationships, and responsibility.
Date - 21 April, 2026
Time - 14:30 - 17:00
Location - CEDR Offices, 100 St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8BU
Cost: £50 (free for MyCEDR Members)
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The Context
Family businesses are the backbone of the global economy, representing 70–90% of enterprises worldwide. As a special few grow into large, often billion-dollar organisations, the challenges they face extend far beyond governance structures, tax planning, or investment strategy. There is more…
Succession, control, identity, legacy, with family dynamics increasingly sitting at the heart of decision-making - often accompanied by strong emotions, values clashes, and conversations that are painful and difficult to initiate, and easily get out of control, let alone resolve.
Advisers today are expected to do more than manage capital. Clients need trusted partners who can help navigate generational tensions, power struggles, and sensitive decisions that traditional advisory models often struggle to address.
Why Attend?
We don’t just teach emotional intelligence or conflict management, we live it. Our team of practising mediators and communication specialists brings real-world experience from family, business, legal, and organisational conflicts into practical frameworks advisers can apply immediately.
This session will be led by a group of highly regarded, internationally experienced family business and probate mediators.
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Why It Matters for Advisors
Technical expertise isn’t enough. UHNW families expect advisers who balance commercial rigour with human complexity. This session equips you to:
- Navigate high-stakes, emotional conversations with confidence
- Handle succession, inheritance, identity, and legacy with clarity
- Build deeper, long-term client trust
- Support generational transition and values-aligned succession
- Bridge values and purpose clashes, including ESG and legacy concerns
- Reduce risk and preserve relationships while adding tangible value
Your CEDR-Accredited Facilitators
- Julia Burns - Mediator and Conflict Coach. Julia specialises in helping families to resolve inheritance disputes and is known for having a high degree of empathy and emotional intelligence.
- Oliver Hallam - Mediator. With a background in private client law, Oliver helps families, sports and business owners resolve highly sensitive and often emotionally charged disputes.
- Eve Pienaar - Mediator and Trainer. A solicitor by background, Eve has over 20 years of commercial mediation experience with a deep expertise in contentious probate and family business disputes.
- Felicity Steadman - Mediator and Trainer. Felicity specialises in employment and workplace disputes as well as being an expert in multi-party negotiations with a background in post-apartheid South Africa industrial relations.