Family business succession a full day’s topic at Oct. 18 session at Gonzaga

Gonzaga University is hosting an all-day Family Owned Business Seminar, running 8 a.m.- -5 p.m. on Oct. 18.

It’s at the Jepson Center on the GU campus. The session will focus on strategies and steps to follow for families needing to keep a business going and planning for the future. It’s $195 per ticket and you can register here .

The main speaker is Lee Hausner, author of “Hats Off to You: Balancing Roles and Creating Success in Family Business Succession.”

It’s described as a six-step transitional model for succession in family business. Hausner is a noted family business consultant and psychologist specializing in issues of wealth and wealth transfer.

Worth noting: search Google Knol for “business succession” and you get 292 results.

If you search Knol for “business success” you get 10,000 results . Mathematically, it must be much harder finding solid advice for the first topic than the second, or do you not agree?