Growing by slice and shred
Sargento’s cheesy innovations have generated success for more than 70 years. A focus on family and employee engagement will help lead the company into the future.
Family Business Magazine - 2025 September-October Issue
Features
Seeds of a legacy
For more than 150 years, Black-owned Gilliard Farms has remained both ahead of its time and rooted in history.
Your secret sauce for strategic success
Investing in corporate culture is a strategically savvy move — and one family businesses are uniquely positioned to make.
Columns
Culture isn’t complete claptrapÂ
You have to create a culture or one will be created for you.
Asking the right questions about AI
The choices we make about AI today, whether to lead, to follow or to ignore, will shape not just our competitiveness, but the legacy we leave to those who come after us.
Departments
Whose decision is it anyway?
In a family enterprise, it’s critical to know where the buck stops (and who has input before it gets there).
Bringing in a new boss
The family council plays a key role in finding and onboarding a non-family CEO.
Trump signs new tax bill, NextGens speak up about succession
Also, the September Congressional Family Business Caucus will focus on "Legacy & Longevity."
Passing the torch: How to let the next generation lead with confidence
Balancing guidance with trust empowers the next generation to lead boldly.
‘Assume you’re going to be successful’
Mike McKee, president & CEO of McKee Foods Corporation in Collegedale, Tenn., on the importance of planning for the future.
Turning the page
Strategically planning for a successful family business sale.
The hidden advantage
Leveraging executive coaching for sustainable family business growth
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Family First
Multiple milestones, a single vision
White Stallion Ranch is celebrating three major anniversaries this year, while also looking toward an expansive future for the family enterprise.
Family business, the ‘Toyota Way’
How G2 CEO Andrew Koenig transformed CITY Furniture from top-down to team-driven.
Family Office
Stewardship, Not Spending: Wendy Craft on Long-Term Planning and Teaching Teens
Wendy Craft, CEO of the Elle Family Office in Atlanta, which serves a first-generation family, discusses what she's learned from her work establishing a structure for the office and engaging the teenage NextGen family members in family education and long-term planning.
‘Part Sheriff, Part Priest’: Katherine Dean on the Role of the Chief Learning Officer
Katherine Dean is chief learning officer of Three Hills Family Office, which serves almost 30 members of a family with two branches and four living generations (G3 through G6). She discusses her responsibilities as CLO.
