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Monthly Programming

If Running a Business Had Continuing Education -- This Would Be It

Monthly programming for the Center for Private Business falls into four categories: Strategic Workshops, Expert Panels, Table Talks and the Legacy Speaker Series. Programming is held in-person in either Wake Forest, Raleigh or Charlotte with options to join-in virtually.

Membership to the Center grants any employee in your company free access to programs. Encourage budding leaders to attend, or send in marketing, sales or HR leadership to programs geared towards those focuses.

Core Focus Areas

Programming Focuses On

Succession Planning, Governance, Company Culture, Strategic Planning, Family Harmony, and Leadership Development

Expert Panels

Listen in as cutting-edge leaders from across North Carolina discuss, and debrief on their area of expertise. Past panels have hosted business leaders specializing in cybersecurity, diversity, staffing and more.

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Strategic Workshops

Monthly workshops designed to help you make the hard choices for you business on today’s pressing matters. Past workshops include:

1

Grow with Purpose: Valuation Planning Workshops

Discover your businesses’s current valuation, future valuation, and any hurdles to clearing the way to a higher valuation.

2

Managing Stress as a Business Leader

Learn techniques and skills to get you out of a reactionary mindset as a business leader. Gain ideas to sustain and channel stress during a difficult time.

3

What’s Up with Inflation? Everything!

Find areas to mitigate inflation costs and regain your business margins. Learn strategies to implement to lower the devastating effects of inflation on privately owned businesses. 

4

Preparing the Next Generation for Philanthropic Giving

Hear from a top foundation on how to set up the next generation of business leaders to be passionate about philanthropy, and to weave philanthropy into the mission of a business.

5

Tracking Trends and Tangents in a Post-Pandemic Economy

Talk through strategies on how to relocate or reallocate people, real estate and business during the pandemic. Going remote? Talk through hurdles and wins for conducting business from afar.

6

Inclusive Leadership to Overcome Bias

Understand your own biases and learn strategies for leading your team with inclusion. Gain skills for handling conflict as an empathetic, non-combative leader.

Legacy Speaker Series

The Legacy Speaker Series features business leaders sharing their business, family and personal stories. Legacy Speaker Series events offer the opportunity for networking and connection with our community of business leaders.

Past Legacy Speakers Include:

  • Kathie Niven, President & CEO, Biscuitville
  • Serena Dugan, Co-Founder, Serena & Lily
  • Kelly S. King, CEO, Truist Financial Corporation
  • Frank Holding Jr., Chairman & CEO, First Citizens Bank
  • Scott Gerber, Principal & CEO, The Gerber Group
  • Andrea Malik Roe, President & Co-Founder, CRH Healthcare
  • Marcus Smith, CEO, Speedway Motorsports Inc.
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Hear From Today's Strongest Leaders

The stories behind household name brands and companies shaping the business landscape of the Carolinas and beyond.

Ready to join as a member? Contact one of the Center staff to get you set up with a market leader.

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