Family Business Matters

Dean R. Fowler, Ph.D. is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts specializing in the emotional dynamics that impact families in business and families of wealth. The international association, The Family Firm Institute, honored him by selecting him to receive the prestigious ＂Award for Interdisciplinary Achievement＂. His book - Love, Power and Money - has won world-wide acclaim in reviews in the major publications dealing with family enterprises as one of the best books on integrated family transition planning. In 2008 he was appointed to serve with a select group of business leaders on the Coleman Chair Advisory Council at Marquette University’s College of Business Administration. In 2009 a new television series - Family Inc. - was launched in five Midwestern states with Dean Fowler serving as host. (family-inc.com) In 2011 he published two additional books - Family Business Matters and Proactive Family Business Successors. Both books are available as MP3 downloads at his web-site: http: //www.deanfowler.com/resources/books-cds/ For over thirty years, Dean Fowler has served over 300 family clients in both the United States and Europe. His firm, Dean Fowler Associates, provides integrated services focusing on the ＂soft side of hard issues＂ by working closely with the other professional advisors trusted by the family client. Peg Masterson Edquist is a freelance journalist with more than thirty five years of broadcast journalism and print journalism experience. During her career, she has worked for the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel as a business writer, covering beats as varied as retailing and the brewing industry. For 20 years she was a contributing writer, broadcast reporter and columnist with the Business Journal of Greater Milwaukee. During her freelance career, she has written for publications that include Advertising Age, The Writer and Photo District News. She is co-author of the book ＂The Transport of Hope, How one humanitarian made a difference in the Balkan conflict＂ (HenschelHAUSbooks June 2016 ＄14.95) She and her husband Jerry, are owners of Carlson Tool & Manufacturing, Inc., a ＄27 million Wisconsin manufacturing firm with 150 employees. Carlson Tool is a privately held, family-owned business founded by Jerry’s father in 1958 For more information, see www.deanfowler.com