Chaos-Proof Your Family Business, Session One: Your Inner Family Business and the Chaos-Proof Framework

Who Should Attend

Staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry owners, principals, chief executive officers, and presidents; members of family councils; and directors, trusted advisers, or leaders, especially those who work with their family or with family-owned companies

Highlights

Think of a great family company: a valuable organization, one with a significant positive impact and a strong family behind it. The organization may be publicly traded like Wal-Mart (controlled by the Walton family) or privately held like Mars Inc. (owned by the Mars family). Or one of their founders may be in the ASA Leadership Hall of Fame like William Kelly of Kelly Services Inc. or Tim Doherty of Doherty Employment Group.

Now think of the opposite: a family company that succumbed to infighting, selfishness and poor decision making; an organization reduced to a shell of its potential with strained family relationships.

After a successful career with his family’s company, MAU Workforce Solutions, Adam Hatcher took what he learned about navigating growth and family dynamics and began to partner with other family companies; ones that want to reach the next level and stay together.

In this two-part webinar, Hatcher explores why families who work and own a company together can self-destruct despite shared goals—and how to prevent it. During the second session, attendees will simulate a family business meeting. Drawing from 13 years of scaling his own family company and studying many others, Hatcher offers a chaos proof framework to build trust, clarity, and communication—key ingredients to a thriving, chaos-proof family enterprise.

During session one of this two-part webinar, attendees will learn:
• What makes a family business its own organization inside a larger company
• Why recognizing this inner family business is key to family and company success
• How to assess the health of the inner family business

Presenter

Adam Hatcher, Esq.

family business consultant and executive adviser, Twenty One Clear LLC

Prior to family business consulting, Hatcher worked as a third-generation executive in his family’s company. Over 13 years, he established the firm’s legal office and human resource functions and served as the head of strategic planning as it grew to one of the 75 largest staffing firms in the U.S. More importantly, over that time, he managed the tension of working with three generations and balanced roles on the executive team, family council, and board of advisers.

Hatcher practiced law prior to joining the family company and credits Stephen Dwyer and the ASA community with helping him launch his career.

This webinar qualifies for 1.0 hour of CE toward maintaining your ASA credential.