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SUMMARY:Monthly Educational Program: Scaling Smart: How Family Businesses Can Grow Without Losing Their Culture
DESCRIPTION:Scaling Smart: How Family Businesses Can Grow Without Losing Their Culture \n\n\n\nGrowth is exciting\, but for family businesses\, scaling successfully often comes with a difficult question: How do you grow without losing the culture\, values\, and relationships that made the business successful in the first place?\n\nJoin this practical and candid conversation focused on balancing growth with the preservation of identity\, culture\, and long-term vision.\n\nThis panel will feature family business leaders who have navigated periods of expansion while working intentionally to maintain the trust\, accountability\, customer relationships\, and people-first culture that define their organizations. Panelists will share lessons learned\, challenges faced\, and strategies that helped them scale thoughtfully and sustainably.\n\nTopics will include:\n\n\n Maintaining culture during rapid growth\n Hiring and developing leaders who align with company values\n Expanding operations without losing personal connection\n Communicating vision and expectations across a growing organization\n Balancing innovation with long-standing traditions\n Creating systems and structure while preserving entrepreneurial spirit\n\n\nWhether your business is preparing for its next stage of growth or already experiencing rapid expansion\, this session will provide practical insights for scaling in a way that strengthens your culture and legacy.\n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\nBrian Brooks\, Co-Founder - E.E. Ward\n\n\n\nFacilitated by: Crockett Crow\, First Merchants Bank
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\nScaling Smart: How Family Businesses Can Grow Without Losing Their Culture \;
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\nGrowth is exciting\, but for family businesses\, scaling successfully often comes with a difficult question: How do you grow without losing the culture\, values\, and relationships that made the business successful in the first place?
\n\nJoin this practical and candid conversation focused on balancing growth with the preservation of identity\, culture\, and long-term vision.
\n\nThis panel will feature family business leaders who have navigated periods of expansion while working intentionally to maintain the trust\, accountability\, customer relationships\, and people-first culture that define their organizations. Panelists will share lessons learned\, challenges faced\, and strategies that helped them scale thoughtfully and sustainably.
\n\nTopics will include:
\n\n\n - Maintaining culture during rapid growth
\n - Hiring and developing leaders who align with company values
\n - Expanding operations without losing personal connection
\n - Communicating vision and expectations across a growing organization
\n - Balancing innovation with long-standing traditions
\n - Creating systems and structure while preserving entrepreneurial spirit
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\n\nWhether your business is preparing for its next stage of growth or already experiencing rapid expansion\, this session will provide practical insights for scaling in a way that strengthens your culture and legacy.
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\nPanelists:
\nBrian Brooks\, Co-Founder - E.E. Ward
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\nFacilitated by: Crockett Crow\, First Merchants Bank
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LOCATION:Ohio Dominican University Griffin Student Center - ROOM 258-260 1215 Sunbury Rd. Columbus\, Ohio 43219 Please print and place this PARKING PASS on your dashboard.
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URL:https://business.familybusinesscenter.com/events/details/monthly-educational-program-scaling-smart-how-family-businesses-can-grow-without-losing-their-culture-8313
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