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October 3, 2007 Wednesday ( All programs 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM with lunch at 12 Noon)
Presenter: Glenn Ayres, Doud Hausner & Associates, Glendale, California
Title: “Family Planning: A Guide to Succession”
Glenn Ayres has been consulting to families, executive teams and businesses on matters of family business succession, change management, and governance for more than 20 years. He brings extensive experience in business management, family systems, strategic planning, communication, and the art of small and large group facilitation.Glenn’s practice ranges from succession and strategic planning for family and closely held businesses, to working with successors on leadership development, senior generation couples on life/career transitions, and work with both profit and non-profit organizations on implementing major change initiatives. lenn is a founding member of the University of St. Thomas, Center for Family Enterprise where he served for several years as a professional-in-residence and as a member of the Center’s advisory board. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the business school at St. Thomas where he teaches family business management to undergraduate seniors and MBA’s.
Glenn is also a founder of the Family Business Alliance and is currently serving as a board member and the President of the Family Firm Institute (www.ffi.org). He is a Fellow of the Institute and a former member of its Body of Knowledge Committee.
November 8, 2007 Thursday
Presenter: Jeffrey Seglin
Title: “The Right Thing: Ethical Dilemmas that Pull the Family & the Business Apart”
Jeffrey L. Seglin writes "The Right Thing," a weekly column on general ethics syndicated by the New York Times Syndicate. In the column, he regularly offers solutions to ethical dilemmas posed by readers.
Jeffrey Seglin is the author of The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today’s Business . It was named as one of the "Best Business Books of 2003" by the Library Journal. It is a collection of the first four years of “The Right Thing,” which until January 2004 had been a monthly business ethics column he wrote for the Sunday New York Times Money and Business pages since 1998. He is also the author of The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart.
Seglin is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston. He was an ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in 2001 and a resident fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard in 1998-99.
He lectures widely on business ethics and other topics including sessions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Virginia Commonwealth University, Duke Corporate Education, and elsewhere. He was the host of "Doing Well by Doing Good," an hour-long live television program airing out of WCVE, PBS's Richmond affiliate. He also hosted a virtual seminar for Harvard Business School Publishing called, “Ethics and the Frontline Manager: Making the Tough Calls.” He was a panelist at "Business Preparedness for Pandemic" Summit at Harvard Medical School and has lectured the Catherine B. Reynolds Fellows at Harvard.
January 16, 2008 Wednesday
Presenter: Bill Lindsley
Title: “Strategic Listening: Dancing on the Deck of the Titanic”
Dr. Bill is an accomplished consultant, speaker, author, teacher, and manager - and expert in the art and science of strategic listening . He has over 15 years experience teaching graduate business students case studies in strategic planning, winning a number of teacher-of-the-year honors, and as one of his award reads, "teaching us to laugh while we learn." In addition he has almost 20 years of experience helping clients transform their companies into highly focused listening organizations - faster than Donald Trump can say, "You're fired!".
Dr. Lindsley is an expert in his field and is passionate about helping those he works with to achieve real and substantive results. Listen to what he has to say: "I am passionate about helping those I work with to achieve real and substantive results." See there? In fact, he has worked with numerous organizations in a variety of industries and settings, from manufacturing to high technology, from family businesses to entrepreneurs, from multinationals to not-for-profits. He is a former dean and professor, holding positions at Boston College, Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management, and Belmont University 's Massey Graduate School of Business. But the amazing thing is this - he is still relevant! In fact, his courses in strategic management were consistently rated best of program and students have voted him Teacher of the Year several times. He has been published in numerous books and articles, and his work has received numerous awards. He is a respected keynote speaker who has addressed audiences of all types.
He holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Strategic Planning., was Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia , and earned an M.B.A. from Boston College. He has a varied work background - tennis pro, French chef, computer programmer, farmer, and salesman - among others. But he was NOT the model for the movie "Catch Me If You Can." Active in his local community, Bill has worked with many organizations, contributing his time to such organizations as the Nashville Rape and Sexual Abuse Center, The Salvation Army, The Hermitage, Hands-On Nashville, Miriam's Promise and many others. He is active in promoting the arts in Nashville. Having served as past president and chairman of the Nashville Entertainment Association, he was particularly active in supporting music and visual arts in the public schools. He is a competitive tennis player, ballroom dancer, and award-winning fine art photographer. He has three wonderful children and three delightful grandchildren and resides jointly in Brentwood, TN which is world-renowned for absolutely nothing, and Atlanta, which is famous for its traffic.
February 20, 2008 Wednesday
Presenter: The Second City Communications
Title: “Communications in the amily Business”
What do hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies have in common? They've all worked with Second City Communications.
Here's the skinny:
Second City does more than 300 engagements a year for corporate clients. Theirr work involves some 250 writers, actors, directors, stage managers, musical directors, instructors, program designers, editors and production crew. Every single year.
The Second City's famous alumni include John Belushi, Mike Myers, Gilda Radner, and John Candy. Oh, and Catherine O'Hara, Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert and countless other stars of stage and screen.
They have theatres in Chicago, Toronto, Detroit, and Las Vegas. More than 1,000,000 people attend our shows each year.
The Second City is the largest training center for improvisation and acting in North America with 14,000 students a year. They operate training schools in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Toronto.
March 19, 2008 Wednesday
Presenter: Charlie Luck, IV, President & CEO, Luck Stone
Title: “The Luck Stone Story: Building a Business To Last”
It's rare to find a company that has enjoyed continued success for eight decades, yet has remained family-owned and operated for more than 80 years. Luck Stone is one of those companies. Under the leadership of three generations of the Luck family, Luck Stone is now the largest private, family-owned and operated aggregates supplier in the U.S. with close to 1,000 associates.
"My dad and I literally eat, sleep, and breathe our business," relates Charles (Charlie) Luck, IV, current CEO and President of Luck Stone. "America has been built by family companies that understand and are a part of their local communities. That was an important piece of history passed down from my grandfather to me."
Charlie's grandfather was Charles S. Luck, Jr. He founded the company in 1923 with a commitment to maintain the values of honesty, integrity, and reliability. Luck Stone began as a single quarry on the West End of Richmond, Virginia, called the Sunnyside Granite Company. Over the next 20 years, Mr. Luck, Jr., added manufacturing facilities as the demand for crushed stone increased. He pioneered the use of electricity, converting from standard steam-powered machines to more productive electric ones.
"However, our company's success is based on people, not necessarily on machines," states Charles S. Luck, III, current Chairman of Luck Stone. "My dad taught me that if you treat people fairly, then they'll treat you the same." Mr. Luck, III, joined the family's company full-time in 1955 and assumed the role of president ten years later. Through his vision, the company became a nationally recognized industry leader in automation, product diversification, plant safety and environmental stewardship.
In 1977, Mr. Luck, III, captured the industry's attention by adding a "shopping center for stone." Luck Stone's architectural and landscaping stone division is now one of the company's most ambitious and exciting ventures. It features 6 architectural stone centers and 2 granite fabrication facilities and offers more than 400 stone products for home building and landscaping.
Today, Luck Stone is headquartered in Richmond, Va., and is the 12th largest producer of crushed stone in the nation. It operates 17 crushed stone plants in Virginia and North Carolina and 2 sand and gravel operations. Luck Stone also owns Lee Tennis/HAR-TRU®, the world's most popular type of clay tennis court and a leading supplier of court accessories. Luck Properties is the real estate development arm of Luck Stone and includes a portfolio of three major business parks in Virginia.
"We've never lost our focus on people, while at the same time providing products and services that our customers can depend on," explains Charlie Luck. "We've taken our core product, a rock, and wrapped it with services and features that are unique in our industry. And we remain committed to our customers, neighbors, associates, and communities to never lose sight of our roots, and the core values my grandfather established more than 80 years ago."
April 30, 2008 Wednesday
Title: "Successful Family Business Strategies: Case Studies"
Presenters: Forum Partners
First Market Bank, RCM&D, Virginia Asset Management, LeClair Ryan , King Associates
Email: [cjgallag@vcu.edu]
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