A Practical, Therapeutic, Hands-on Conversation To Help Your Family Business Work For You. Presented by Ira Bryck

Registration starts at 11:45am and program runs 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: Horizon's Restaurant, 2200 Boston Road in Wilbraham

Cost: $10 for members / $20 for non-members. Includes light lunch

Lunch is generously sponsored by Horizon's Restaurant and Bar

Working with family can be tremendously rewarding, adding great competitive advantage; or continuously irritating, reducing prosperity, satisfaction, and any desire to show up for work. For the lucky few, doing it right comes easy- but for most, family business success takes structure, conscientiousness, right priorities and intentions.

This session will be a combination of useful content, to give you a better sense of best practices, to help your family business plan, communicate and function better; and conversation, so that the presenter, Ira Bryck, plus the audience, members of many other family companies, can help you figure out what to do tomorrow back at your specific company. At this presentation, you will:

• Learn what governance structures are used by family businesses that successfully discriminate between family and business rules and roles.
• Discuss the several biggest stumbling blocks faced by families in business (whether multigenerational, spouses, siblings and cousins), and how you can prevent them or deal with them (but not avoid them).
• Discover and practice a few communication tools specifically designed to keep family business communication efficient, untainted, appreciative and businesslike.  

Your presenter: Ira Bryck is Director of the UMass Family Business Center at UMass Amherst Continuing & Professional Education. The center provides a non-commercial, interactive learning community for business families in Western New England and beyond, which include excellent dinner forums, confidential roundtables, and varied workshops. Ira and the center also produce the family business website UMassFBC.com and advice column, Dear Ira: Fresh Air and Cold Water for the Perplexed Business Family, and confers on an array of family business challenges. Ira is the author of three plays about life in family business, presented as “edu-tainment” to forums of business families. His third play, A Tough Nut to Crack, isbased on his 17 years in his family's 4th generation childrenswear business on Long Island, where he served simultaneously in every role from president to tailor. He especially enjoys producing customized retreats for business families looking to get where they’re going.