ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ Family Wins Family Enterprise Leadership Award
The ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ family received the prestigious 2018 Kellogg Family Enterprise Leadership Award at the Kellogg Center for Family Enterprises at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
This award recognizes the ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ family’s leadership and focus on maintaining effective communications between the family and their company, as well as the family’s education, guidance and mentoring of younger generations. The ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ family joins a distinguished list of winners that includes the Ochs/Sulszberger family of The New York Times, M. Laird Koldyke of Laird Norton Company and Jim Ethier of Bush Brothers & Company.
Sam ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ, co-chair of the ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ Family Council Board; Molly Heaney, member of the ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ Board of Directors and ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ Family Council; and Guy Cecala, chair of the ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ Family Nominating & Evaluation Committee, accepted the award on May 9, 2018, and were the event’s keynote speakers, sharing their insights on 135 years of stewardship, leadership and transition at ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ.
Through its global educational initiatives and annual awards, the Kellogg Center for Family Enterprises helps promote values, vision, leadership, governance and stewardship capabilities that are often exhibited by effective business-owning families. Members of the ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ family, along with ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ senior executives and Board members, have attended Kellogg’s annual family-owned business program since 2005. This program addresses skills and capabilities that are critical to success for a complex, multi-generational family-owned enterprise like ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ.
This award is a testament to the continuing commitment of the ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ family in owning a Company that conducts its business globally in a way they can be proud to tell their grandchildren about.
The ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ family is also the winner of the IMD-Lombard Odier Global Family Business Award for 2013.