Each meeting provides ample opportunity for interaction with leaders of other family businesses like your own. 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. 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. Each participating family business pays an annual fee. This fee is for representatives of the member company to attend all programs and breakfast meetings. Shared expertise comes from University resources, invited experts, Forum sponsors and the members themselves.