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Expert
will share advice for staying the course
LONDON,
ON, October 15, 2009 - When it comes
to navigating the complex world of
family business, David Bork, a
pre-eminent family business counsellor,
can provide rock-solid advice.
Bork has
helped more than 400 families in
business to chart through family
business issues, such as creating a
sustainable decision-making structure,
succession between generations, death of
the founder, sale of the business and
the complexities of dealing with wealth.
He'll share
tips for running a successful family
business at the 6th Annual National
Family Business Day celebration hosted
by the Canadian Association of Family
Enterprise (CAFE) Southwestern Ontario
and the Business Families Centre at the
Richard Ivey School of Business.
Bork will
present "Future Focus: Leading Today for
Tomorrow" at the event, which will be
held from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at London
Hunt and Country Club. Pre-registration
is required.
Bork is the
author of "Family Business", "Risky
Business How to Make it Work" and
co-author of "Working With Family
Business, A Guide for Professionals".
The event
will also include a family business
panel session with Tom Hayter, President
of Hayter's Turkey Farms Limited, a
family-owned turkey farm in Dashwood,
Ontario; Barb Molinaro,
Vice-President/Operations of Dowler-Karn,
a St. Thomas-based regional fuel and
lubricant supplier; and Murray Flanagan,
Senior Vice-President /Treasurer of
Flanagan Foodservice Inc., the largest
Canadian family-owned foodservice
distributor, with offices in Kitchener,
Owen Sound and Sudbury.
CAFE
Southwestern Ontario will also present
an achievement award for the
Southwestern Ontario Family Enterprise
of the Year 2009, sponsored by national
partners KPMG Enterprise and RBC.
"Family
businesses face the same challenges of
other businesses with the addition of
special dynamics of ownership,
leadership and management by family
members," said David Simpson, Executive
Director of the Business Families
Centre, Richard Ivey School of Business.
"Despite these challenges, they
outperform and outlast traditional
businesses, even in tough economies.
Canadian family businesses fuel our
economy so there is much to celebrate."
The mandate
of the Business Families Centre at the
Richard Ivey School of Business includes
a three-pronged approach to business
families: study, support, and celebrate.
Date:
Thursday, October 22
Time:
- 8-9
a.m. – Breakfast
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9-10 a.m. – Address from David Bork
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10-12 p.m. – Family business panel
session with Tom Hayter, Barb
Molinaro and Murray Flanagan and
Achievement Award for Southwestern
Ontario Family Enterprise of the
Year 2009
Location: London Hunt and Country
Club, 1431 Oxford Street West, London,
ON
To buy
tickets, please contact CAFE
Southwestern Ontario, 519-642-4349,
southwesternontario@cafecanada.ca
About the Richard Ivey School of
Business, The University of Western
Ontario
The Richard Ivey School of Business at
The University of Western Ontario (www.ivey.ca)
offers undergraduate (HBA)
and graduate degree programs (MBA,
Executive MBA and
PhD) in addition to non-degree
Executive Development programs. Ivey has
campuses in London (Ontario),
Toronto, and Hong Kong. Ivey
recently redesigned its curriculum to
focus on
Cross-Enterprise Leadership - a
holistic issues-based approach to
management education that meets the
demands of today's complex global
business world.
For more
information, please contact:
Dawn Milne, Richard Ivey School of
Business, 519-850-2536,
dmilne@ivey.ca
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