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 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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