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Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Women in family business mentoring program - Objective: to provide guidance and insight into running a family business for women who are next gen leaders.
Mentors - We are seeking female family business leaders who are willing to mentor next gen women.
Mentees - We are seeking next gen female leaders who are interested
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Categories: CCFB Networking & Social Events
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Friday Mar 8, 2019
Conway Center member OPOC.us facilitates this round table on how to use strategic planning to maximize healthcare coverage for your employees. This is the first in a series of startgic planning round tables. The next one will cover energy efficiency. Over the past several years, healthcare costs have skyrocketed at ...
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Categories: CCFB Roundtable
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
We are hosting an afternoon session for new, returning, and any other family business or service provider members interested in learning more about getting the most out of your Conway Center membership!
This event will give everyone an opportunity to network with other family business leaders, and to learn more about the history of the Conway Center, its offerings and member benefits.
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Categories: CCFB Networking & Social Events
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Sue Zazon, Central Ohio Regional President of Huntington Bank will lead a discussion on the importance of company culture. Panelists Lori Kaiser, Founder & CEO of Kaiser Consulting - and recent winner of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce Small Business Award - and Karen Carpenter, Vice President of Environmental Pest Management - and winner of Best Places to Work - will share their experiences and insight into creating, nurturing, and maintaining a company culture that puts people first.
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Categories: CCFB Educational Program
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Friday Apr 5, 2019
Are you an owner/operator? Join us as Conway Center member Air Force One facilitates a round table on how to use strategic planning to save money, time, and resources by assessing facilities and determining operational goals. Issues surrounding sustainablity and efficiency goals will be discussed.
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Categories: CCFB Roundtable
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Thursday Apr 18, 2019
Did you know 80% of businesses were targets of fraud in ’18. Join us for an informative conversation with experts to understand how you can detect what your potential fraud risks are and how you can put defensive measures in place to protect your business from the bad guys. Mike Kramer, VP of First Merchants Bank will moderate the conversation with Kurt Hoeft from EasyIT, Doug Davidson from GBQ Partners, Aimee Gilliland from First Merchants Bank. Nate Fisher, a family business leader, will discuss the way his company got caught in a phishing scam and how it cost them time and resources.
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Categories: CCFB Educational Program
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
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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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
