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, numerous group Educational Opportunities, and Networking and Social Events, Please explore our Events Calendar below for topics that will help you solve your family business challenges.
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Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Creating High Performing Teams -
As your family business grows, so do the needs of your team members. Rather than hiring individuals that we like or who think like we do, we’ll spend time dissecting the best approaches to building high performing teams, retaining talent, and impacting the performance of the organization.
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Categories: Leadership Development, CCFB Professional Development Program
Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Join us for an interactive discussion with a panel of benefits experts as they explore current benefits and wellness trends, and share how family business employers of all sizes can effectively package offerings - with or without medical coverage.
Sharon DeLay, President of GO-HR, will facilitate the discussion by asking a series of questions and guiding conversation. The format will be an open discussion addressing the following topics:
* The projected 2026 health insurance benefits price increases
* Emerging benefits trends family businesses need to know
* Strategies to help employers manage rising costs
* Actionable steps to prepare for the future workforce
Don’t miss this in-person opportunity to ask your own questions, engage with each other, and consult with our experts!
Generously sponsored by Morgan Stanley
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Categories: CCFB Roundtable, Human Resources
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group, CEO
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
A THREAD of Hope is a fun and amazing evening full of live music, a THREAD fashion presentation, delicious light bites & drinks, and both a live & silent auction. By supporting A THREAD of Hope, you help support Sam’s Fans’ mission to support and enhance music and art therapy programs that serve seriously ill children and their families in Columbus and beyond.
Sam’s Fans is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organizatio. Sam, born in 1998, was diagnosed with Fanconi Anemia (FA), an inherited anemia that leads to bone marrow failure, when she was in the first grade. She underwent a bone marrow transplant at just ten years old. Following her transplant, Sam spent much of the next fourteen months in the hospital. Throughout this difficult and isolating experience, one bright spot for Sam was the music therapist who would visit with her and could bring a small bit of normalcy and beauty to her days through music. It allowed her to better express her emotions, relieved stress, and was often the highlight of her day. In her memory, Sam’s Fans raises money to help provide art and music therapy for seriously ill children and their families.
Despite her courageous battle, Samantha McCarthy passed away on October 15, 2009 at the age of eleven. In 2015, to honor Sam’s life and legacy, her parents Nikki & Dan McCarthy founded Sam’s Fans with the mission of providing therapeutic music and art interventions to children with life-threatening illnesses.
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Categories: Member-Sponsored Event
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
The estate tax doesn't have to be inevitable. Numerous legal strategies and planning techniques exist that can help family businesses avoid paying estate taxes entirely, making it what tax experts often call a 'voluntary' tax.
To help family businesses navigate these complexities, attorneys Bea Wolper of Emens Wolper Jacobs & Jasin and Meredith Sugar of Taft/ will explore practical approaches - from trusts to gifting strategies - designed to minimize or eliminate estate tax liability and preserve wealth across generations including:
* Understanding Estate Tax and Its Impact
* Irrevocable Trusts in Succession Planning
* Additional Methods for Reducing Estate Tax Liability
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Categories: CCFB Roundtable, Succession Planning
Tuesday Nov 4, 2025
For non-family C-suite leaders working in a family business. Peer-to-peer driven, sessions focus on objective and thoughtful insight and advice from those in similar situations. Additional fee to attend. Pre-approval to join and RSVP required.
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Categories: CCFB Peer Group, C-Suite Non-Family Leaders
Wednesday Nov 5, 2025
Effective Stress Management -
The holidays are coming up! That means fun, family, and STRESS. We spent some time last year learning about how anxiety affects us and how we can overcome it, but stress is different from anxiety. It’s important that we understand the difference so that we can effectively cope with stress as it comes to us in various forms. We’ll gain practical insights into how to manage stress, how to foster a work/life balance when we work with family and explore what our beliefs about stress have to do with how it affects us.
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Categories: Next Generation Leaders, CCFB Professional Development Program
Thursday Nov 6, 2025
The Rising CEO Peer Group is for next gens who will be taking a greater leadership position in their family business. The group is by invitation only and there is an additional annual fee to attend.
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Categories: CCFB Peer Group, Rising CEO
Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
Celebrate the accomplishments of Central Ohio family businesses at our 27th Annual Family Business Awards & Expo! The Awards Luncheon honors recipients in categories consistent with the success and longevity of a family business: leadership, planning, support, and community service.
Arrive early to ensure you have plenty of time to connect and interact with the numerous expo exhibitors! The Expo will be open from 10am until 12noon. If you're interested in becoming an exhibitor or would like additional details about the Expo, please visit our EXPO page to register and learn more.
Opportunities for Awards sponsorship and advertising in the Awards Program distributed to over 450 luncheon attendees are available!
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Categories: CCFB Networking & Social Events, CCFB Annual Awards Program
Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
The Family Business Expo is a wonderful business development opportunity available exclusively to Conway Center members. We are thrilled to offer this event, providing you with the occasion to showcase your business, products, or services to the hundreds of family business leaders and advisors who will attend our 26th Annual Awards Program celebrating the accomplishments of family businesses.
NEW this year! All exhibiting companies will be featured in our interactive virtual Expo Directory flipbook to showcase your products and services.
Don't miss this amazing once-a-year opportunity to promote your business!
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Categories: CCFB Networking & Social Events, CCFB Annual Awards Program
Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Gratitude as a Leadership Skill in Family Business - In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we’ll analyze how gratitude can be used as a leadership skill – not just for November, but throughout the year. This interactive program will support new and creative ways to use gratitude in your leadership approach as well as offer time for reflection to support bringing gratitude into your office that day.
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Categories: Leadership Development, CCFB Professional Development Program
Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Join us for a candid conversation between current leaders and next-generation members of successful family businesses. Learn strategies for effective generational transition and collaboration.
Discussion Topics:
Knowledge transfer between generations
Innovation vs. tradition
Leadership transition strategies
Digital transformation challenges
Maintaining family values
Panelists:
Jorgensen Farms - Val Jorgensen and David Karikomi
The Cleary Company - George & George II
Facilitated by: Darren Cherry, Area President, FocusCFO
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Categories: CCFB Educational Program
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Thursday Nov 27, 2025
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group, CEO
Tuesday Dec 2, 2025
For non-family C-suite leaders working in a family business. Peer-to-peer driven, sessions focus on objective and thoughtful insight and advice from those in similar situations. Additional fee to attend. Pre-approval to join and RSVP required.
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Categories: CCFB Peer Group, C-Suite Non-Family Leaders
Wednesday Dec 3, 2025
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Categories: CCFB Professional Development Program, Practical Tools for Managers
Thursday Dec 4, 2025
The Rising CEO Peer Group is for next gens who will be taking a greater leadership position in their family business. The group is by invitation only and there is an additional annual fee to attend.
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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Wednesday Dec 10, 2025
How a Growth Mindset Helps our Family Business - Developments in neuroscience over the last decade have accelerated our understanding of the brain’s elasticity and ability to rewire itself. A common theme that has emerged among the research is that those who understand the importance of a growth mindset are the individuals who reach their goals in life and in business, leading to greater fulfillment. Our time this month will be spent learning how a growth mindset can be adapted, how it leads us to the fulfillment we seek, and how it can set a profitable future for our family business.
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Categories: Next Generation Leaders, CCFB Professional Development Program
Thursday Dec 11, 2025
As we approach the close of 2025, it’s more important than ever to ensure your financial and tax strategies are aligned with both current law and future developments. Business tax planning in 2025 comes with unique complexities, especially with the OBBBA’s provisions on business interest expense, bonus depreciation, and pass-through entity rules. This webinar will arm you with the tools you need to minimize liability and maximize opportunity as you prepare for 2026.
Key topics include:
Tax rate updates and expiring provisions
SALT (state and local tax) and nexus considerations
Key OBBBA provisions including:
Bonus depreciation and expensing of capital investments
Section 1202 qualified small business stock changes
Research and experimentation expense deduction changes
Business interest expense limitation changes
Qualified Business Income (QBI) deduction changes
Pass-through entity planning (S Corporations, Partnerships, LLCs)
Tax deferral strategies and income shifting opportunities
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Categories: CCFB Webinar
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Celebrating Your Successes - Being a great leader in your family business is a journey, not a destination. As we close out the 2025 calendar year, we will take inventory of your year – celebrating what worked, celebrating what didn’t, and laying the groundwork for a fruitful 2026 to follow.
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Categories: Leadership Development, CCFB Professional Development Program
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
