September Exec Ed - Full Delivery Team Announced
August 2021:
The National Centre for Family Business is pleased to announce the full lineup of teachers ahead of September’s iteration of our Executive Education Programme: ‘Family Business Continuity - sustaining the Family Business across generations’. A number of guest speakers will also be invited to share their family business stories and insights to our attendees.
Programme Team
We have invited a range of international scholars, as well as business practitioners to guide you through the 3 day course.
Dr. Eric Clinton
Dr. Eric Clinton, Director, DCU National Centre for Family Business will lead a team of Irish and International experts to deliver Ireland's only programme dedicated to Family Businesses.
Prof. Justin Craig
Professor Justin Craig is one of the foremost scholars and educators of family enterprise globally. His sessions will include concepts and frameworks he has learned studying and working with business owning families across the world over two decades. These frameworks are included in his upcoming book Continuity Model Generation (Wiley Publishing), due to will be published in November 2021. He holds an Adjunct Professorship at Dublin City University.
Paul Hennessy
Paul is Non-Executive Director and advisor to a number of Family Businesses and Private companies. He was a Partner in PwC for almost thirty years where he held a number of management positions at National, European and Global levels.
Prof. Candida Brush
Professor Candida Brush holds the Franklin W. Olin Chair in Entrepreneurship and is the Faculty Director for the Diana International Research Institute at Babson College. Professor Brush is a visiting professor at Bodo Graduate School, Nord University in Bodo, Norway and at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland and a Research Fellow at IFM- Bonn, in Germany.
About the Course
As family firms evolve across generations, the needs of the family, the owners and the business will change. To address these evolving needs and to meet the family’s desire to become a multigenerational business, this programme will provide Irish family business leaders with the knowledge and skills to design appropriate governance structures for their business.
The course will take place from 13th September on three consecutive Mondays, allowing for reflection and questions between each session. If you would like to inquire about a place on the programme, spaces are filling quickly so please contact executive.education@dcu.ie for more information.