FBF Briefs

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Cindy Clarke Executive Director

UNC Asheville

Family Business

Forum

One University Heights

Owen Hall

CPO# 1800

Ashville, NC

28804

828-232-5091
unca.edu/fbf/

Strategic Partners

SBTDC Small Business & Technology

Development Center is a
business developmentservice of NC State University and the University

of North Carolina system,
providing management
counseling and educational services to small
and mid-sized businesses
across North Carolina.

Selected Events

The Family Business Forum is not affiliated with these programs but promotes to its constituents.

First Annual Capital City

Family Reunion

capital

This program is designed by

family enterprise owners, for

family enterprise owners. We will

convene on Capitol Hill to

network and share the

importance of family

businesses with

lawmakers - join us and

be heard!

Event Details:

May 14 - 16, 2012

Washington, DC

The Willard Hotel

Learn more.

Webinar
by Family Business Consulting Group
Family Councils:
Providing Structure for Family Business Continuity

How a Family Council can help drive the family agenda forward.
How to assess family situations and challenges to determine if a Family Council is the appropriatestructure to address these.
How to use the family council to strengthen the family and the business.

Event Details

Wednesday May 23, 2012

1:00 PM EST

Register

Greetings!

My flight is booked to Washington DC to meet with lawmakers and discuss issues facing family owned businesses. Tell me your challenges so I can pass it on to Congressional Representatives or better yet - join me there in May! See details in Selected Events.

Cindy

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Worth a Read . . .

See more events below on left hand side of FBF Brief.

Are you an investor-ready entrepreneur?

This workshop is designed to educate and prepare growth-oriented entrepreneurs to successfully engage private equity investors. This is a program of the SBTDC.

Event Details:

Tuesday April 17, 2012

Asheville Chamber of Commerce

8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Details and Register

Calendar of Events Exclusively for FBF
Partners, Members & Guests

Two Events for Two Generations

3 teens

For Young Adults:

Accountability May Be Costing You The Job

What they see is what you get. Your reputation is your biggest asset. What are you doing to build your assets? Read article the

by Greg McCann , consultant, author, and professor of family business for over 15 years. Here Greg speak on importance of credibility.

Event Details:

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Lunch and Learn for UNC Asheville Students, Alumni, and family members of the Family Business Forum

Highsmith Center on Campus

12:15-1:15 PM, Lunch provided

RSVP required to cclarke@unca.edu (828)232-5091

or click here to register on line.

For Business

Owners:
Integrating The Next Gen Into The Family Business

Maybe it's time to rethink the family business model.

Do we assume the family business should continue and our children follow our footsteps? How does the business owner separate the desire to have a hard charging leader and the parent's desire for their child to have a balanced life? Greg McCann will discuss how to adopt the family enterprise model to implement the idea that the best way to preserve the family business is to professionalize the enterprise. This model will better prepare the family and management for the next transition. Read "What If, and Implications for Family Businesses" article.

Greg McCann, JD, CPA is a professor of family enterprise at Stetson University where he was the founding director of the Family Enterprise Center (1998-2006 & 2010- present). He is also an author, speaker, and founder and principal of McCann & Associates, a firm that consults with family enterprises. Greg is also a member of his extended family's enterprise.

Event Details:

Friday, April 20, 2012

Mountain View Room, Wilma Sherrill Center

UNC Asheville Campus

8:00 AM Coffee & Conversation

8:30 AM Program Begins

RSVP required to cclarke@unca.edu (828)232-5091or

click here to register on line.

NC Family Business of the Year Award Ceremony

2012 Honorees