LoadingLoadingLoadingLoadingThis alumni research paper compares how 18 Gulf family offices adapted OECD-style governance language after an ALU executive education sequence. Offices that translated duties into Arabic board minutes and named a conflict-of-interest clerk made more decisions on related-party deals. Offices that kept an English code in a drawer did not. The finding is cultural and operational, not a rejection of professional standards. Arab Leadership University should teach family-office governance as Arab institutional practice: documentation, succession, and investment policy that a family can defend. Digital delivery lets principals in Manama and Riyadh study without advertising their wealth on a foreign campus.