The Conway Center for Family Business provides highly relevant, topical and original programming that helps members learn, stay informed and share experiences with their peers. These family-focused educational programs are unique to the Center and cannot be found anywhere else in Central Ohio.
In addition, we offer enjoyable social interactions that allow members to build strong relationships. We believe that some of the most productive experiences are created in less formal, group settings where relationships can be built, ideas shared and new opportunities hatched.
Just some of these activities include our annual Family Business Awards & Expo, Monthly Educational Programs, Networking and Social Events and Peer Groups. Please see our Events Calendar for topics that can provide solutions to your family business challenge.
Events Calendar - CCFB Peer Group
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Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Applications in Financial Planning:Financial planning has many applications beyond planning for retirement. Family business owners are intimately aware of the connection between their personal financial health and the success of their business. However, the financial health of their employees and family members
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Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Goal Setting and Accountabiity - Being a non-family leader in a family-owned business can be incredibly rewarding… and challenging. This peer group will help determine strategies of influence and impact for non-family leaders. Led by experts from Driscoll Learning,
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Thursday Jan 24, 2019
The Conway Strong CEO Peer Group is for Presidents and CEOs of family-owned businesses. The group is by invitation only and there is an additional annual fee to attend.
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Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
CANCELED
Want to take your family business from market player to industry leader? Learn how VARGO® did just that, along with the investments it made to help increase revenues and capture market share. Listen to the company’s second-generation president, Mike Vargo, share lessons learned and what you can do to make the leap.
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Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Succession of Authority and Relationships
How does the Next Gen take control?
How do they take over key customers, suppliers, employees, etc.?
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2019
This interactive peer group covers relevant leadership challenges and opportunities and provides strategies and skills training to effectively manage them. The sessions begin with structured content followed by ample time for collaborative, peer-to-peer discussions about the work and leadership issues participants face.
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Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Maintaining Cultural Anchors
Honor the Past
Celebrate the Present
Build on your Vision
This is a great discussion to have within family businesses and with the Leaders who are not family but entrusted with maintaining those cultural anchors (Honor the Past).
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Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Wednesday Mar 6, 2019
Online Strategy Peer Group -
How to Maximize Digital Marketing for Your Business:
Many businesses test online marketing only to find that it does not generate the results they were hoping for. If you've been in this position, or are considering trying digital marketing but not sure how to go about it the right way, come to our next Online Strategy Peer Group. Adept's Director of Strategy, Jake Kaufman, will go over the key steps a business can take to ensure their digital marketing program is effective at driving bottom-line results.
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Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Succession of Values and Knowledge:
How does your company express values? Congruent with predecessor? Relate to principles?
Importance of keeping the history, developing a Family Mission Statement, and celebrating family legacy.
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Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
Managing Conflict
This Peer Group exists to empower ourselves as leaders to build better culture that improves our business and others. Facilitators Jonathon McKay and Sarah Ahern with PATH will lead these leadership sessions on various topics focusing on the most relevant challenges and opportunities for your business today.
Re-designed for 2018-19, each session will be structured as follows:
45 minutes of Topic Based Content
15 minutes of updates to the group
30 minutes of opportunity processing
Generously sponsored by Park National Bank
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Thursday Mar 28, 2019
Building High-Performance Teams
Being a non-family leader in a family-owned business can be incredibly rewarding… and challenging. This peer group will help determine strategies of influence and impact for non-family leaders.
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Thursday Mar 28, 2019
Tuesday Apr 2, 2019
Disrupting the Industry and Capturing Market Share - Want to take your family business from market player to industry leader? Learn how VARGO® did just that, along with the investments it made to help increase revenues and capture market share. Listen to the company?s second-generation president, Mike Vargo, share lessons learned and what you can do to make the leap.
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Wednesday Apr 10, 2019
Thursday Apr 11, 2019
Wealth Transfer and Philanthropy - Discussion will include:
• Recommended amount to save for healthcare in retirement
• Family Office considerations
Generously sponsored by The Fortis Group at Morgan Stanley.
It is never too early to think about succession planning in a family owned business! This dynamic monthly peer group is facilitated by Bea Wolper of Emens & Wolper Law Firm, Thaddeus O’Brien of O’Brien & Associates, and Meredith Sugar of Taft Law. They provide a forum to discuss all aspects of succession planning - from inter-family dynamics to strategic planning - in interactive sessions that will provide the foundation for transitioning your family business to the next generation. This program is not just for founders/owners – attending together with successors or next gens is very important and beneficial.
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Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Collaboration -
This Peer Group exists to empower ourselves as leaders to build better culture that improves our business and others. Facilitators Jonathon McKay and Sarah Ahern with PATH will lead these leadership sessions on various topics focusing on the most relevant challenges and opportunities for your business today.
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Wednesday Apr 17, 2019
Creative ways to Recruit & Retain Employees - Low unemployment. High turnover rates. Millennials. Gen Z. There are more job openings than people to fill them. With attracting and retaining employees at the top of the list of what keeps us up at night, we’ll have a candid conversation in a moderated roundtable format about what we’re doing now and what we can do differently to grow our teams and sleep better at night.
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Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
Captive Insurance Companies - Business owners generally have three common goals; to reduce taxes, reduce business risk, and reduce health care costs. In this session, we will be introducing Captive Insurance Companies, commonly called ''Captives,'' as an innovative (and somewhat-secret) solution to accomplish these goals.
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Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Right People/Right Seat - Being a non-family leader in a family-owned business can be incredibly rewarding… and challenging. This peer group will help determine strategies of influence and impact for non-family leaders.
Led by experts from Driscoll Learning.
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Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
When the next generation of leadership took over The Strait & Lamp Group, a company with five distinct and different locations, they realized a need to create a unified organization. Hear from president and owner, Steve Arnold, as he describes the process of how The Strait & Lamp Group embraced a fresh approach yet honored their rich history of more than 100 years.
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Wednesday May 8, 2019
Thursday May 9, 2019
Conflicts of Interest in the Family Business
In a family business, a dispute of family issues, business issues, or ownership issues can be very detrimental to the business. This session explores situations that cause conflicts, the need for boundaries and the necessary resolution to avoid such conflicts in a family owned business.
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Tuesday May 21, 2019
Tuckman's Model - Team Formation & Development - This Peer Group exists to empower ourselves as leaders to build better culture that improves our business and others.
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Tuesday May 21, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
Are we Connecting? Behavior styles and Driving Forces that effect our business relationships
Being a non-family leader in a family-owned business can be incredibly rewarding… and challenging. This peer group will help determine strategies of influence and impact for non-family leaders.
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Thursday May 23, 2019
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Thursday Jun 13, 2019
Others - clarifying the roles and responsibilities of family ownership
What are the rights, responsibilities, and roles of inactive family shareholders?
Generously sponsored by The Fortis Group at Morgan Stanley
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Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Development Plan - This Peer Group exists to empower ourselves as leaders to build better culture that improves our business and others. Facilitators Jonathon McKay and Sarah Ahern with PATH will lead these leadership sessions on various topics focusing on the most relevant challenges and opportunities for your business today.
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