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Monthly Message — November 2014 Shedding the Ties that Bind: Coping with Founders Who Can’t Let Go November 20 – 7:30-9:00 a.m. Community Room in Alumni Hall Ohio Dominican University 1216 Sunbury Road, Columbus, 43219 Program presented by: Mike Crotty, president of Spirit Services Company, found himself in a situation that no family business leader […]

The Conway Center for Family Business will present awards to leading Central Ohio family businesses and supporters at the 16th Annual Family Business Awards Program 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. on Friday, November 7 at the Aladdin Shrine Center, 3850 Stelzer Road. More than 450 family business leaders will attend.

Submitted by Graham Shippy – Safex, Inc. Part of planning for the upcoming year includes establishing your business goals and what you’d like to achieve. Research shows that when a business has measurable goals in place, they’re more likely to accomplish them. Further, more than three-quarters of small business owners say they haven’t achieved their […]

By Morgan Hembree, Psy.D., MBA, BCB – Integrated Leadership Systems While being only three months out from the completion, defense, and binding of my dissertation gives me a certain perspective, I can say with virtual certainty that the dissertation process is one of the most painful things I will ever endure. For over two years […]

Bob Spence Director of Human Resources Mid-City Electric Want To Improve Your Hiring Success? I have spent over 35 years working in human resources as an administrator, a consultant and as an HR Manager in a family-owned and operated business. As a consultant, more than 75% of my clients were family-owned and operated businesses. During […]

Monthly Message – October 2014 Expansion and Growth Strategies for Your Family Business October 16 – 7:30-9:00 a.m. Community Room in Alumni Hall Ohio Dominican University 1216 Sunbury Road, Columbus, 43219 Thinking about expanding your family business? Wondering how to take your business to the next level? Tom Dunson, of Commerce National Bank, will lead […]

The Conway Center for Family Business will host Expansion and Growth Strategies for Your Family Business on October 16, 2014 from 7:30-9:00 a.m. in the Community Room in Alumni Hall at Ohio Dominican University, 1216 Sunbury Road, Columbus, OH 43219.

Monthly Message — September 2014 Leadership Lessons: The Crane Group – A Family Business Success Story September 18 – 7:30-9:00 a.m. Community Room in Alumni Hall Ohio Dominican University 1216 Sunbury Road, Columbus, 43219 Program presented by: The Crane story began in the 1920s, when Robert S. Crane built a business based on designing and […]

The Conway Center for Family Business will host Leadership Lessons: The Crane Group – A Family Business Success Story from 7:30-9:00 a.m. on September 18 at Ohio Dominican University in the Community Room in Alumni Hall. Fourth generation Crane family members Brian Westwater and Dan Crane, both financial directors for the company, will share how […]

Ohio Dominican University (ODU) welcomes Conway Center for Family Business co-founders J. Richard Emens, J.D. and Beatrice Wolper, J.D. as adjunct instructors this fall. Emens and Wolper, who lead the region’s only organization dedicated to helping family business leaders grow and transition their business, will teach Building, Operating and Passing on a Family Business. The […]