NextGen Leadership in ESG: Why the Next Generation of Family Offices Cares
THE MOMENT
Something significant is quietly unfolding inside family offices and family businesses around the world right now.
An estimated $124 trillion in private wealth is moving between generations over the next two decades. And yet the conversations that sit at the heart of that transfer — about values, identity, purpose, and what all of this is actually for — are rarely happening out loud. In the world of family offices, silence has long been mistaken for sophistication.
But something is shifting.
The next generation of heirs, board members, and future stewards of private wealth are asking different questions than their parents did. Not just “how do we grow the portfolio?” — but “does our legacy reflect something we’re proud of?” These aren’t naive questions. They come from a generation that has watched what happens when capital moves without conscience, and they want a different path.
Finding that path inside a hierarchical, trust-based, multigenerational family structure is not simple. It takes courage, the right language, and honest conversation.
This event is one of those conversations.
THE FORMAT
Three people — each carrying a genuinely different experience of family wealth, legacy, and generational transition — will speak honestly about what they have lived, what they have lost, and what they are still figuring out.
This is not a panel about ESG trends or portfolio strategy. It is about what actually happens inside families when significant wealth moves from one generation to the next. The silence around it. The weight of it. The courage it takes to ask different questions than the generation before you.
Estela Fernández de Córdova carries centuries of family history into the room. As a 4th generation board member of one of Spain’s most historically rooted noble families, she offers something rare: a first-hand account of what it means to inherit not just wealth, but history — and what it takes for a woman to find her voice inside a deeply traditional family structure.
Susan Weingartner brings what most wealth conversations quietly avoid: the emotional truth underneath the numbers. The silence families carry around money. The unspoken assumptions about responsibility, inheritance, and identity. The things that never quite get said — and what that costs.
Allen Esrock tells the story of what happens when no one steps forward. His family’s business was sold because the next generation didn’t continue it. Rather than move on, he built NxtGen Nexus — with the intention that other families won’t face the same outcome. His is the story of consequence, and of what you do with it.
DATE: June 26
TIME: 8 am pst
LOCATION: Online
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ABOUT US
The Family Offices ESG Alliance was built on the belief that the most important conversations about wealth and legacy happen in trusted circles, between people willing to speak honestly — not in conference halls or between algorithms.