Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Corporate Author Series: Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness
7:30 AM - 9:15 AM
The Hyatt Lodge at McDonald's Campus2815 Jorie Blvd.
Oak Brook, IL
Family Business Succession shows how to turn succession from a potentially explosive crisis into a renewed commitment to the business and the family. This updated edition Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness helps break the complex succession planning and management process into understandable pieces; the different types of leadership transactions; how to overcome resistance to transferring power, as well as ideals for new roles, new careers and other post-retirement activities.
Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. is Co-Founder, Principal, and Chairman of the Board, of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., Craig is a leading consultant, speaker, writer, and educator in the family business field.
As the founder of the Cox Family Enterprise Center and current professor emeritus at Kennesaw State University in Marietta, GA, Craig invented and implemented the membership-based, professional-service-provider sponsored Family Business Forum, which has served as a model of family business education for some 150 universities world-wide. Until his retirement in January 2005, Craig held the Dinos Eminent Scholar Distinguished Chair of Private Enterprise and was a professor of management in Kennesaw State’s Coles College of Business.
As a consultant, Craig has worked with hundreds of family companies in the U.S. and abroad on issues including generational transitions, developing business and family governance processes and structures; finding and articulating family missions and values, facilitating decision making conflict resolution, managerial development; family compensation and dividend policies; family meetings; and more. As an inspiring, informative and entertaining speaker on a variety of family business topics, he speaks regularly to trade and professional groups and has lectured at over 100 universities.
With co-author John L. Ward, Craig is perhaps the most prolific writer in the family business field. He has authored, co-authored or been editor of more than thirty books, including the 22-volume Family Business Leadership Series and is the founding editor of The Family Business Advisor.
Listed in Who’s Who and widely acknowledged for his work in the area of family business, Craig Aronoff has received, among other honors: the Family firm Institute’s Beckhard Award for Outstanding Contributions to Family Business Practice; the Freedom Foundation’s Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education; and the National Federation of Independent Business Foundation’s Outstanding Educator Award. The Aronoff Professorship of Family Business at Kennesaw State University was names in his honor.
His present and past activities in civic and community organizations include: president of the Family Firm Institute (1992-1994), president of the Marietta Kiwanis; vice chairman of the Cobb (County, GA) Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the Cobb Transit Advisory Board; member of the Marietta Planning Commission; and president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. Craig grew up in a family business and received his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, his Masters from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Doctorate from the University of Texas in Austin.
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ACG Member Registration Fee (includes copy of book)
(Expires 10/1/2010) |
$50.00 |
Non ACG Member Registration Fee (includes copy of book)
(Expires 10/1/2010) |
$60.00 |
Reserved Table for 6 (includes copy of book for each)
(Expires 10/1/2010) |
$300.00 |
ACG Member Late Registration Fee (includes copy of book)
(Expires 10/6/2010) |
$55.00 |
Non ACG Member Late Registration Fee (includes copy of book)
(Expires 10/6/2010) |
$65.00 |
Reserved Table for 6 Late Registration (includes copy of book for each)
(Expires 10/5/2010) |
$330.00 |
ADDITIONAL COPY OF BOOK: Family Business Succession
(Expires 10/5/2010) |
$20.00 |