10th Annual Family Business Forum – ‘Pathways to Thriving Family Enterprises’

Thursday October 26, 2023 to Friday October 27, 2023

Event begins at 3pm on Thursday, October 26th.

Join the Family Enterprise Center and your family business peers

to learn proven ways to strengthen your family and your enterprise!

REGISTER NOW!

The Forum will be a hands-on experience to help you:

  • Learn and work together with your family on critical issues for the future
  • Assess your family and enterprise to determine future opportunities and needs
  • Build relationships with other families
  • Leave with actionable next steps

The Forum will be helpful for families at every stage of growth. Participants will find it useful to bring multiple family members from more than one generation. Non-family executives will also benefit from this program.

When:

Thursday, October 26, 3:00 – 5:00 pm with 10-year celebratory reception from 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Friday, October 27, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Location for both events: UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Rizzo Conference Center

Highlights of this year’s forum include:

  • Special Guest Speaker: Peter Begalla
  • Facilitation: Dr. Stephen P. Miller and Cooper Biersach, Co-Founders of the Family Enterprise Center
  • Insights from Dennis Jaffe’s research “Three Pathways to Evolutionary Survival: Best Practices of Successful, Global, Multi-Generational Family Enterprises”
  • Exercises designed to help families apply practices from successful family firms
  • Group discussion with similarly-situated families
  • Luncheon designed to promote one-on-one discussion with other families
  • Informal gathering the night prior to the event
  • Executive classroom meeting space at UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Rizzo Conference Center

For more information:

fec@kenan-flagler.unc.edu