Kim Schneider Malek

Kim Schneider Malek is an internationally recognized educator, consultant, and thought leader in the field of family enterprise. She is the founder of Family Enterprise Alliance, LLC, and the Center for Advancing Family Enterprise (CAFE), and the 2014 recipient of the Family Firm Institute’s Barbara Hollander Award for sustainable leadership and educational contributions to the field.

Kim currently serves on the faculty of the University of Louisville College of Business, where she teaches MBA courses on family enterprise dynamics and family capital. She previously spent two decades at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business, teaching in MBA, executive MBA, and undergraduate programs on topics ranging from family enterprise and succession to leadership and organizational communication.

A second-generation family business consultant, Kim has advised families and enterprises around the world since 1997, serving clients and students from more than 50 countries. Her consulting and coaching practice focuses on governance, next-generation leadership, ownership education, succession, and family dynamics. She was also the inaugural director of the Bailey Program for Family Enterprise at the University of Denver during the Covid era.

An FFI Fellow and co-founding editor of Practitioner, Kim has served in leadership roles with the Family Business Review, FFI’s Body of Knowledge committee, and the Global Education Network. She is also a frequent lecturer and keynote speaker for leading organizations including YPO, Vistage, Family Office Exchange, and the UK Institute for Family Business.

Kim holds an MBA from the University of Denver and a BS in Communication from Boston University, along with certificates in family therapy, family business advising, and the family dynamics of wealth. She also serves on the Planned Giving and Endowment Committee of Jewish Colorado.