Empowering Kentuckiana’s family businesses for generations to come

Plan for the future. Prepare for the unexpected. Maintain family harmony.

The University of Louisville Family Business Center (FBC) is a community where business-owning families can exchange strategies and experiences, safely explore challenging issues unique to family businesses and learn from leading experts in family business. From understanding interpersonal dynamics in a professional setting to sustaining a legacy culture, FBC seeks to ensure family harmony while committing to business continuity.

Our mission

Sustaining Kentuckiana family businesses through connections, support, education and advocacy. We leverage local and best-in-class resources with UofL by:

  • Creating a community of business owners and their advisers that helps strengthen the family and the business
  • Providing educational resources to business-owning families, family enterprises and family business partners to achieve multigenerational success
  • Generating, translating and disseminating research about business-owning families and family enterprises
  • Advocating for the entrepreneurial and economic role of business-owning families and family enterprises in our region

What we do

Provide

We provide high-quality, interactive educational forums that help our members learn from one another.

Assess

We conduct business assessments to to identify challenges and opportunities and connect you with the right experts and resources.

Facilitate

We facilitate peer-to-peer learning through roundtable offerings.

Disseminate

We develop, translate and disseminate research about business-owning families and their enterprises.

Develop

We help develop a strong social network for our members to share knowledge and best practices.

Contact FBC

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Location

College of Business
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292