Women in Family Business Roundtable - Leading Authentically in Family Business
Leading Authentically in Family Business Designed for women in family business, this peer discussion explores how authentic leadership - including relationship-building, emotional intelligence, and collaboration - can be your greatest business advantage. You'll gain practical insights on overcoming self-doubt, earning credibility, and leveraging your unique strengths to lead with confidence and create lasting impact.
Live Webinar: Building Your Strategy Muscle
Most family businesses treat strategy as an event — a once-a-year offsite, a binder that gets filed away, a conversation that resurfaces only when something goes wrong. But strategy isn't a document. It's a discipline. And like any muscle, it atrophies without regular use. In this practical session, Brian Zuercher, Co-Founder of Northbound Group, will show family business leaders how to move strategic thinking out of the annual retreat and into the regular rhythm of running the company. Rather than another framework to file away, this session will focus on building the habits, cadence, and decision-making structures that keep strategy alive between offsites — so it actually shapes what the business does next. Attendees will learn how to: Shift strategy from an annual event to an ongoing leadership discipline. Build a simple cadence for revisiting and adjusting strategic priorities throughout the year. Involve the right mix of family and non-family leaders in strategic conversations without losing speed or alignment. Turn strategic intent into decisions the team can actually execute — not just talk about.
Sales & Marketing Exchange
The Sales & Marketing Exchange is a quarterly, peer-to-peer roundtable designed for Conway Center member owners and leaders who are responsible for driving growth in their family business. It provides a confidential forum to work through real-time sales and marketing decisions with peers facing similar challenges. Come share what is working, what is not working and learn what other family businesses are doing to drive the marketing and sales engines.
Rising CEO Peer Group
The Rising CEO Peer Group is for next gens who will be taking a greater leadership position in their family business. The group is by invitation only and there is an additional annual fee to attend.
HR Roundtable- Ask Anything HR: Questions. Talk. Solutions.
Got HR questions? Bring them. This candid, peer-driven roundtable gives you a rare opportunity to ask the things you've been wondering about - out loud, in a safe space with fellow family business owners and leaders who are navigating the same issues. Sharon DeLay, President of GO-HR and longtime Conway Center member, will facilitate the conversation and bring her frontline expertise navigating the HR challenges family businesses face every day. Whether you're wrestling with compliance, employee relations, recruiting, or policy decisions, Sharon creates an environment where no question is too basic and no challenge is off the table (as long as it's HR-related!). Come prepared with your real questions — and leave with practical insights, fresh perspective, and a few ideas you can actually put to work. Don't miss this in-person chance to dig in, engage with peers, and get the kind of guidance that only comes from experience.
Conway Strong Peer Group
The Conway Strong CEO Peer Group is for Presidents and CEOs of family-owned businesses. The group is by invitation only and there is an additional annual fee to attend.
Member Event: Ahola Columbus Showcase: The Recipe for HR Success
Join HR Professionals and business leaders from Central Ohio for a free, half-day seminar designed to help you build the perfect recipe for workplace success.
Non-Family C-Suite Leaders Peer Group
For non-family C-suite leaders working in a family business. Peer-to-peer driven, sessions focus on objective and thoughtful insight and advice from those in similar situations. Additional fee to attend. Pre-approval to join and RSVP required.
