Family Business Forum

Achieving Success
     Across Generations

Welcome! The purpose of the Family Business Forum of the University of North Carolina Asheville is to enhance the viability of closely held businesses in Western North Carolina. Guided by its members and supported by sponsors, the forum presents programs and activities that are meaningful and relevant to the membership. The Advisory Board, composed of sponsors, members and the executive director, develops programs for the year, which runs September-May. The forum is a resource to successful family-owned businesses seeking to support the entrepreneurial spirit of the family and the company.

Cindy Clarke
Executive Director

Upcoming Programs 2009

Summer Break

Thursday, August 27, 8 - 10 a.m. Chestnut Ridge Room, Reuter Center, UNC Asheville campus

James F. Smith, Ph.D., the chief economist at Parsec Financial will speak on the business and financial outlook through 2010.  He has more than 30 years experience as an economic forecaster.  His career spans private industry, government and academic institutions.  He has tenured with Wharton Econometrics, Union Carbide, the Federal Reserve and the President's Council of Economic Advisers.  Please
plan to to join us to hear the state, national and international implications of the economic outlook presented by Dr. Smith.

Fall programs in the works include Dr. Lorrie Allen, Sound Bite Coach who will lead a workshop on how to get the media to eat out of your hands and how to handle the beast when your business is in crisis; and Patricia M. Annino will present from her new book Women in Family Business: What Keeps You Up At Night?

Each program begins with registration, conversation and refreshments thirty minutes before. Programs begin promptly at the designated time. For more information on our programs contact Cindy Clarke by email: cclarke@unca.edu or call 828/232-5091.

Resource Materials

CD - Move Your Business a Generation Ahead - Wayne Rivers

CD - Wonder, Thunder, Plunder or Blunder: Which Best Describes Your Family Enterprise? -
The Family Business Institute

CD - My Closely Held Company: Now That I've Got It, What Do I Do With It? - The Famly Business Institute

CD - Dancing on the Deck of the Titanic: Strategic Listening- Bill Lindsley & Co