Why Join?
Every Conway Center member has access to valuable family business resources and professionals experienced in assisting family-owned businesses.
Since Conway Center members range in size from those with fewer than 4 employees serving Central Ohio to those with thousands of employees and relationships around the world, you'll get diverse perspectives from other family business leaders.
We offer two types of membership: Family-Owned Business: businesses with two or more family members in a family controlled business; and Service Provider: firms or individuals with expertise in serving the unique needs of family-owned businesses.
Is Membership Right For You?
Family businesses with one or more of the following goals will benefit from membership:
- Wants to solve business and family business problems
- Expects to be successful and profitable
- Desires to grow their family business
- Intends for the family to retain ownership of the business
- Interested in building a legacy for future generations
- Desires to plan for the future
- Open to considering new ideas
- Committed to developing a succession plan
- Willing to devote time to address business challenges and family dynamics
- Sees benefit in networking with other family business leaders
Family Business Eligibility
- Membership is open to family-owned businesses employing two or more members of the same family.
- For Service Provider membership, please see our Service Provider Membership page.
Benefits:
- Free admittance for ALL members of your family business (family and non-family) to numerous professional development programs, roundtables, and nine large monthly educational programs each year.
- Access to the resource library of over 75 webinars that address the unique and complex dynamics involved in owning and operating a family business.
- Ability to interact on a regular basis with other members of family-owned businesses and knowledgeable service providers.
- Subscription to our annual print newsletter, The Family Business Communicator.
- Monthly e-mail updates about events sponsored by the Conway Center for Family Business and advice and information of interest to family business leaders.
- Opportunity to invite guests to programs.
- Family Business Showcase Events, free behind the scenes look at family businesses.
- An invitation to attend our Annual Family Awards Program and Expo.
- Opportunity to participate in our Annual Golf Open.
- Access to professionals experienced in working with family businesses.
Cost
- Under 10 full-time employees – $385 per year
- 10-75 full-time employees – $560 per year
- 76+ full-time employees – $710 per year