INTRODUCTION
Here's How the Forum Works
The LSU Family Business Forum offers family business owners
such as yourself opportunities to gain knowledge that can help
you successfully operate and expand your business. The Forum
offers practical, interactive programs, resources, and networking
opportunities designed to promote future business success. The
Forum sponsors half-day business meetings where you will learn
from top management professionals, savvy business consultants,
informed university professors, and experienced family business
owners how to:
- Create a vision and strategic direction that family and non-family
employees can share and work to achieve.
- Identify and resolve potential relationship conflicts between
generations, family and non-family employees.
- Smooth leadership transitions and resolve conflicts about power,
control and money.
- Develop reward, compensation, and motivational strategies for
family and non-family employees.
- Prepare the next generation to take over leadership of your
growing business.
The Forum also provides ample opportunities for you to meet
informally and confidentially with business professionals
and other family business members to discuss common problems
and share solutions.
Forum Member Testimonials
PROGRAM FEATURES
Meetings feature in-depth presentations by real live family
businesses about issues they have confronted. The nation's
leading experts provide in-depth knowledge and insights on
issues directly relevant to your family business.
Breakfasts are held throughout the year that deal with technical
and managerial issues of law, taxation, financial planning
and management, business strategies, estate planning, or other
crucial considerations. Each meeting provides ample opportunity
for interaction with leaders of other family businesses like
your own.
Electronic Newletter
An electronic newsletter for all Family Business Forum members
and friends is in the process of being produced. This newsletter
will compile the best and most innovative family business
news from nationally known family business experts along with
information and viewpoints from our sponsor businesses.
Please send your e-mail address to cacarte@lsu.edu
if you would like to be added to our electronic mailing list.
Membership benefits
Interaction with family business peers and a chance to share
experiences in a confidential atmosphere
Access to nationally recognized experts and family business
materials
Meeting with Director and/or Assistant Director to discuss
your family business and determine your needs and goals
Networking opportunities among Family Business Forum members
and friends and other business leaders in the Baton Rouge
community
Forum members are assigned to groups consisting of individuals
in similar positions in their family businesses. These peer
groups meet to share experiences and perspectives on issues
of family business. Coordinated by professors and facilitators,
the groups typically have lives and agendas of their own to
better serve their members. Groups include: senior management/owners,
junior generation in the business, family not in the business,
non-family key executives, and others.
The Family Business Forum Directory is a for-members-only
guide to Forum members and sponsors, enabling all participants
to develop closer relationships with one another.
MEMBERSHIP
Policy: The Family Business Forum is a membership organization
available to a select, limited number of family enterprises.
Members are typically businesses with multigenerational family
ownership and management. Members include businesses in all
industries with annual sales ranging from a few million to
as much as a billion dollars. Employment ranges from about
10 to several hundred.
Member Fees: Each participating family business pays an
annual fee. This fee is for representatives of the member
company to attend all programs and breakfast meetings.
The fee schedule is shown below:
SUPPORTERS
The Family Business Forum is a program coordinated by LSU's
Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute. The program's supporters are carefully selected for
the professional expertise they bring to the Forum. Supporters
are selected to represent different types of businesses that
can be resources for forum members, such as insurance, legal,
banking, and so on.
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