Seminars and Training

Past Events

Midwest Family Business Advisors conducts workshops, seminars and professional training throughout the United States. Recent engagements have included:

• Key Issues Facing 21st Century Family Business
  Crain’s Middle Market University, Chicago Illinois

• The Northern Trust Family Business Institute’s programs include:

  • How Families Work Together

  • How To Be An Effective Owner

  • Cultivating Leadership In The Family Business, and Family Business Succession Planning

  • Do Your Clients Follow Your Advice?

• The Chicago Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section.
  Chicago, Illinois.

• Working With Family Business: Challenges, Opportunities, Strategies
  Institute For Dynamic Wealth Innovation, Chicago, IL

• Family Business In Transition
  Merrill Lynch, Chicago, Illinois

• Leadership From The Board
  Family Business Center, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

• Office of The President
  The Standard Club, Lecture Series, Chicago, Illinois

• Family Business In Transition
  Mesirow Financial, Chicago, Illinois

• Family Business In Transition
  GCG Financial, Bannockburn, Illinois

• Letting Go
  Family Firm Institute, San Francisco, California

• To Go or Not To Go? Creative Destruction, Stages of Change and Generational Alignment
  Family Firm Institute, San Francisco, California

• Preparing For A Business Transition: Emotional Issues and Family Dynamics
  Gardner Carton & Douglas, Chicago, Illinois

• The Succession Dilemma: Sell or Hold the Family Business
  Campden Conferences, Chicago, Illinois

• “Should We Sell?” & That is NOT the only question
  Campden Roundtable, Chicago, Illinois

• Strategies to Plan the Succession You Imagine
  National Shoe Retailers Association, Chicago, Illinois

• Family Business Succession Planning
  Rauland-Borg Corporation, San Francisco, California

• Family Office, In-House vs. Outsource: Maintain Control Without Sacrificing Quality
  Family Office Forum, Chicago, Illinois

• Give Your Dreams Substance and Direction
  Cole Taylor Bank, Rosemont, Illinois

• How To Get Them and Keep Them: Finding, Hiring and Retaining Great Employees
  Executive Forums, Mishawaka, Indiana

• Making The Workplace Enjoyable: “Nurturing Company Culture and Creative Work/Life Benefits”
  Human Resources Management Association, Chicago, Illinois

• Business Ethics After ENRON
  Integritas Institute, Chicago, Illinois

• Leadership 2000
  National Association of Purchasing Managers, Miami, Florida

• Leadership: Redefining Expectations
  Catalyst Benefits, Atlanta, Georgia

• Philanthropic Estate Planning: Does Philanthropy Help Achieve Business, Financial and Personal Goals?
  Financial Planning Association, Brookfield, Illinois

• Work/Life Programs & The Corporate Culture Employee
  Services Management Association, Las Vegas, Nevada

• Retaining the Best During a Tight Economy Society for Human
  Resource Management, Chicago, Illinois

• Retirement From The Family Business: Crisis or Opportunity?
  Mesirow Financial, Highland Park, Illinois

• How to be the “Employer of Choice”
  Peer Enterprises, Waukegan, Illinois

• “Do Work/Life Benefits Pay?
  ”Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

• COMPANY CULTURE CAN FOSTER INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY“IT STARTS AT THE TOP”
  Passion on the Job Symposium, Chicago, Illinois