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One for All and All for One!
September 17, 2021
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t’s great to see how the FFI membership has worked together this year to continue to provide thought leadership, research, formal and informal educational opportunities, and much more. In this week’s issue of FFI on Friday, we want to highlight the opportunities that will be available in the next few weeks — wherever you are!
TODAY
Last day to vote in the FFI board elections. Thanks to the 2021 Nominating Committee, co-chaired by Dan Frosh and Peter Englisch.
September 21
Thanks to the IFB-UK and Panikkos Poutziouris, there is a survey entitled “Working with Owner-Managed Family Business Entrepreneurs,” for all FFI members to participate in. Complete the survey before September 21.
September 21 & 22
GEN 503: Tools for Positive Change in Family Enterprise Systems: Analysis and application
Led by faculty members Andrew Hier and Neus Feliu. This course is part of the FFI Global Education Network (GEN). Register now.
September 22
FFI Practitioner article entitled “Thirty Things Every Family Business Advisor Should Know” authored by Guillermo Salazar on behalf of the IberoAmerica Study group. This article will appear in both English and Spanish.
September 30
Final report from the 2086 Society grant recipients, “The Governance Marathon: Advising families-in-business in disruption-in-disruptions,” from Kevin Au (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jeremy Cheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Marshall Jen (Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Marta Widz.
September 30
Third issue of the year from the Family Business Review (Don Neubaum, editor). Get details on the articles.
October 1
Q4 GEN courses open. Enroll today.
October 6
Midwest Chapter virtual meeting featuring Cathy Carroll. Living or working in Chicago is not required! Register now.
October 14
New England Chapter virtual meeting featuring Nancy Drozdow and Caleb White from CFAR. Living or working in Boston is optional! Register now.
October 18
Virtual conference – created by the 2021 Conference Program Committee with 26 distinguished presenters. Get details and register.
October 19
October 20–23
FFI in-person conference in London. Go here to view the program and to register.
Previous Edition
In this issue of FFI on Friday, we want to give you an update on the October 21-23 conference in London. First of all, the conference as planned last March by the 2021 program committee is going forward. (Of course, we still have the October 18 and 19 virtual conference days for those who cannot attend, for a variety of reasons. Go here for details and to register.)
There will be four venues in October, and each space is carefully designed to follow all UK protocols for COVID-19 and in some cases, even more. Each venue will require, at a minimum, that attendees be vaccinated.
We are pleased that this event can go forward and thank the more than 100 people who have already registered.
Cordially,
2021 Conference Program Committee