Agape Rogers
Director Search & Board Advisory
Agape helps family enterprises build the boards that carry their legacy forward.
Prior to her work at Family Board Advisors, she led the Board Search Practice at The Family Business Consulting Group (FBCG), where she built and revitalized high-performing advisory and fiduciary boards for multigenerational family businesses across industries and around the world. Her approach is strategic and deeply personal. She starts by understanding a family’s vision, dynamics and long-term goals. Then she finds directors with the perspective, expertise and fit to move the business forward. The result is a board that the family trusts and that makes the enterprise stronger.
Before FBCG, Agape led the Corporate Board Initiative at the Executive Leadership Council (ELC). That program prepares Fortune 500 C-suite executives for highly sought-after corporate board seats. It gave her a rare view from both sides of the table: what makes a board strong, and what makes a director ready to serve.
Her understanding of family business is personal. She grew up in her family’s private enterprise, where she saw both its resilience and its challenges firsthand. She later co-founded Signature Media Group Speakers (SMG) with her sister. As Vice President, she advised clients, built strategy and put in place the systems that fueled the company’s growth.
Agape is a certified CliftonStrengths coach who helps leaders and teams find and use what they do best. She is also a committed advocate for economic empowerment in communities of color. She hosted the Women of Power Initiative in Cape Town, South Africa, bringing women together to learn, network and grow.
She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and children, and enjoys reading, yoga and traveling with family and friends.
How we work
You’re in experienced hands. We work directly with families and alongside their advisors, bringing in trusted specialists whenever a situation calls for deeper expertise.
Governance-first.
We begin every search with the questions most firms skip: What is this board for? Does the family agree? What will success look like in five years, not five months?
Technology-assisted, judgment-led.
We use modern AI research tools aggressively for market mapping, candidate research, and governance benchmarking, which is why a focused firm can deliver depth that once required a floor of analysts. But no algorithm meets your family, reads the silence in a shareholder meeting, or vouches for a candidate with its own reputation. Technology does the searching. We do the judging.
Confidentially.
Family matters stay family matters. Our engagement terms include confidentiality provisions written for the realities of family enterprise, and our candidate outreach never exposes your situation before you’re ready.
The team
Who we serve
- Multigenerational family businesses, from early transitions through later-generation stewardship
- Founder-led and closely held companies professionalizing their governance
- Family offices adding independent voices to boards and investment committees
- Family companies with minority investors seeking directors both sides trust
Not sure whether your board is ready for what’s ahead?
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