Executive Education

Delivering best practices and highly applicable team building skills, the Accelerated Leadership Experience (ALX) is a five-week leadership program designed for managers to act as a catalyst for transformation. The result? Successful and fulfilled leaders. ALX includes both classroom and experiential activities and covers topics such as emotional intelligence, communication, coaching, feedback, wellness, stress management, energy management, team effectiveness, people development, diversity and inclusion.

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Planning for strategic growth, successful succession, and purposeful legacy

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore and discover successful practices for advancing family business. Through classroom and experiential learning activities, you will gain the skills and knowledge to improve family systems and family-relational dynamics. The workshop will also prepare you for continued success through succession and wealth planning. Globally-recognized practitioners, renowned professors and family business owners will guide participants, sharing their experiences and inspiring new ways of thinking.  With time for personal reflection and peer bonding, this three-day workshop is valuable for all members of an established family business.

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Find and channel the meaning for your business now and empower a legacy for future generations

In family business, we are often consistent on “what” we do–be it construction, development, finance and consumer goods through generations. Yet, the greatest risk both in business scaling and any significant transition is losing perspective on the deeper “why.” In this roundtable event, Jay Brenneman and Brandon Addison from VOCARE Advising will facilitate a robust conversation on the importance of aligning your family business around meaning and purpose that speaks beyond dated values or current cliches.

VOCARE Advising specializes in business-owning families and owners of closely-held businesses. We help businesses align themselves around the relationships and the purpose that matters most. We also teach founders, owners, families, leaders, and executive teams how to execute and integrate best business and family practices through developing essential skills like emotional intelligence, system thinking, differentiation, polarity management, and more. Come prepared to learn, ask questions, and assess where your family can make progress. This Roundtable is open to family members as well as advisors. Meaningful conversation, peer networking and happy hour included.

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Join us for an inspiring and fun evening featuring Spotlight Stories on Selling, Transitioning to the Next Generation, or Retiring From a Private Business, a family business site tour from Anthony and April Lambatos (co-owners of Footers Catering, Social Capitol, and mibe), and connection with peers over hors d’oeuvres and dinner.

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Being a franchisor comes with incredible responsibility for the brand, the franchisees and the customers of the network. This course will examine each of the stages a franchisor must go through as it develops a valued brand, a powerful network and a cadre of loyal customers along the way.

Prerequisite: Students must have taken the online course Introduction to Franchising before beginning the workshop.
Certified Franchise Executive CE credits: 16 CFE Education and 3 CFE Participation credits

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