Business Leadership

‘Any company that can survive 50 years is pretty spectacular’

Matthew Marquis, CEO of Pacifica Hotels in Aliso Viejo, Calif., talks staying in business for five-plus decades and holding family and non-family accountable as the organization grows.

The hidden advantage

Leveraging executive coaching for sustainable family business growth

‘If you wait to have a hard conversation, it can be an even harder conversation’

Shanna Missett Nelson, CEO of Jazzercise in Carlsbad, Calif., talks growing the dance fitness company during COVID and maintaining a thick skin when working with family.

Giving the new CEO the space to bloom

Jon Wells, CEO of family-owned Midmark, on working with the chair and ensuring a successful agenda.

‘I’ve seen kids fail when they lack that passion for the products or customers’

Paula Marshall, chairman & CEO of The Bama Companies, on forging lasting partnerships, the importance of passion in a family business and the day her father sold a million pies to Ray Kroc.