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.
Events Calendar
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Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Family businesses have something special - a natural ability to create genuine, ''people first'' cultures built on trust, shared values, and a long-term vision. Join us as we dive into how nurturing that culture can spark loyalty, bring in great talent, and give you an edge that others just can’t replicate.
Discover practical ways to put your values to work and hear straight from a panel of family business members sharing their own stories of how strong culture has helped them grow, inspire their teams, and navigate big changes.
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Categories: CCFB Educational Program
Friday Sep 19, 2025
Join Becky Fromkes, Jason Block, and Chad Eddy for a day of learning and networking at our Traction Mastermind event! This in-person gathering will take place at Open Air located at 2571 Neil Ave, where you'll have the opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and gain valuable insights into building traction in your business. Don't miss out on this chance to level up your skills and grow your EOS™ network. See you there!
This mastermind is EXCLUSIVELY for leaders currently running their business on EOS ™ with or without the help of an Implementer, and is designed as a forum to share best practices, learn from your fellow leaders' experiences, and gain more traction in your business.
''If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together!''
Join a room full of like-minded entrepreneurs and EOS™ enthusiasts for a high-energy, interactive session focused on real-world implementation challenges and solutions.
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Categories: Member-Sponsored Event
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Thursday Sep 25, 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
Wednesday Oct 1, 2025
Becky Fromkes, Certified EOS Implementer, will discuss hands-on/ practical application of the LMA (Lead+Manage=Accountable) tool and best practices on how to hold Quarterly Conversations. Together, these tools help leaders strengthen team management. It covers how to effectively lead with vision, manage with consistency, and hold employees accountable using EOS principles.
Learn how to conduct Quarterly Conversations—structured, one-on-one meetings to provide feedback, align expectations, and discuss growth opportunities. Whether your company runs on EOS or not, these practical, proven best practices apply to anyone in a leadership role.
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Categories: CCFB Roundtable, CCFB Professional Development Program, Practical Tools for Managers
Thursday Oct 2, 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
Tuesday Oct 7, 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 Oct 8, 2025
What Do Great Managers Do? -
It’s been said that average managers play checkers, while great managers play chess (Marcus Buckingham, Harvard Business Review). So much of that ability is based on knowing your people and having a deep understanding of their gifts and potential. This session is based around that knowledge and will provide tools to help identify employees’ strengths and manage effectively according to the needs of our family business and our employees.
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Categories: Next Generation Leaders, CCFB Professional Development Program
Thursday Oct 9, 2025
Diversifying your family business: Is owning a franchise the solution?
Family businesses face unique challenges when it comes to growth, stability, and passing the torch to the next generation. In this webinar, we’ll explore whether franchising could be the right path to diversify your family business. We will cover:
The proven system of a franchise model
5 franchise industries to investigate now (and why)
Costs and funding opportunities
Timing and exit strategies
Join us to find out if owning a franchise is the solution for your family’s future.
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Categories: CCFB Webinar
Thursday Oct 9, 2025
Friday Oct 10, 2025
Current State of Cyber Security and AI
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Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
ColumbUS GIVES is a new initiative of the Columbus Foundation designed to unite for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations in the Columbus Region. Our goal? A stronger, more connected community where giving back is a part of doing business.
Join Nevin Bansal with Outreach Promos and Small Biz Cares for this session. Your business can make a meaningful difference for local charities without ever needing to write a check. There are so many ways to give, including volunteering, gifts of goods or services, and creative promotions that engage your customers in your passions. Come learn from local leaders who have set the bar for giving in diverse ways, and start planning how you can, too!
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Categories: Member-Sponsored Event
Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
In this session, we will discuss the implications of failing to plan for the exit of a key player in a family business, either through voluntary termination, disability or death. What is the default plan, and what pitfalls can you expect?
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Categories: CCFB Peer Group, Women in Family Business
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Navigating Redemption Issues
Join us as we discuss strategies for managing buy-outs, valuation disputes, and maintaining business continuity. Hear from our family business panelists on what has worked - and what hasn't!
Key Topics:
Structuring redemption agreements
Business valuation methods
Financing redemption obligations
Tax implications of share transfers
Dispute resolution frameworks
Panelists:
Future PolyTech - Tony Durieux, Founder/President & CEO
New City Homes & CBUS OZ Funds - Chris Knoppe, President
Ohio Power Tool - Jay Amstutz, 2nd Gen President
Facilitated by: John Shockley, PNC Bank
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Categories: CCFB Educational Program
Friday Oct 17, 2025
This group is for EOS Integrators or the equivalent on the leadership team. These facilitated sessions will provide group members the opportunity to get and share advice on EOS best practices as well as implementation challenges and other issues they are facing.
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Categories: EOS Integrator, CCFB Professional Development Program
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
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
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
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
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
Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
Thursday Jan 1, 2026
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
Tuesday Jan 6, 2026
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
Thursday Jan 8, 2026
Wednesday Jan 21, 2026
Thursday Jan 22, 2026
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 Jan 27, 2026
Tuesday Feb 3, 2026
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
Thursday Feb 5, 2026
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
Thursday Feb 12, 2026
Wednesday Feb 18, 2026
Tuesday Feb 24, 2026
Thursday Feb 26, 2026
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 Mar 3, 2026
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
Thursday Mar 5, 2026
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
Thursday Mar 12, 2026
Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Thursday Mar 26, 2026
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 Apr 2, 2026
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
Tuesday Apr 7, 2026
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
Thursday Apr 9, 2026
Wednesday Apr 15, 2026
Thursday Apr 23, 2026
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 May 5, 2026
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
Thursday May 7, 2026
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
Thursday May 14, 2026
Wednesday May 20, 2026
Tuesday May 26, 2026
Thursday May 28, 2026
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 Jun 2, 2026
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
Thursday Jun 4, 2026
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
Thursday Jun 11, 2026
Wednesday Jun 17, 2026
Tuesday Jun 23, 2026
Thursday Jun 25, 2026
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 Jul 2, 2026
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
Tuesday Jul 7, 2026
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
Thursday Jul 9, 2026
Wednesday Jul 15, 2026
Thursday Jul 23, 2026
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 Jul 28, 2026
Tuesday Aug 4, 2026
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
Thursday Aug 6, 2026
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
Thursday Aug 13, 2026
Wednesday Aug 19, 2026
Tuesday Aug 25, 2026
Thursday Aug 27, 2026
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 Sep 1, 2026
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
Thursday Sep 3, 2026
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
Thursday Sep 10, 2026
Wednesday Sep 16, 2026
