Keeping the Vision Alive While You're Busy Making the Donuts

Your company may be efficient and hardworking, but if you don't know where you're going, you may never arrive.  Forgetting your Raison d' etre is easy, especially in a family business, with all hands on deck, and no time for "meaningful"conversations.  Ira Bryck, director of the UMass Family Business Center, will help you find that balance.

Ira Bryck

UMass Family Business Center

Ira Bryck is Director of the Family Business Center at UMass Amherst Continuing & Professional Education. The center provides a non-commercial, interactive learning community for business families in our region, offering excellent dinner forums, confidential roundtables, and varied workshops. Ira and the center also produce the family business website UMassFBC.com and advice column, Dear Ira: Fresh Air and Cold Water for the Perplexed Business Family, and confers on an array of family business challenges.

Ira is the author of three plays about life in family business, presented as "edu-tainment" to forums of business families. His third play, A Tough Nut to Crack, is based on his 17 years in his family's 4th generation Childrens wear business on Long Island, where he served simultaneously in every role from president to tailor. He especially enjoys creating customized methods for business families to get where they're going.