This article describes a qualitative study exploring how a leadership intervention in a group context developed
positivity in leaders of family businesses. Ideas are drawn from positivity in organizational scholarship and group
social capital. The article makes two contributions: the first is in conceptualizing positivity in family business studies
while the second is to contribute to management thought by describing how the leadership intervention developed
positivity to lead and manage in leaders of family business. To the best of our knowledge, there is little research that
applies these ideas in family business studies.