Atlanta-based Family Business Institute announced today that Dr. Kevin Fleming has joined the organization to lead the Family Business Innovation Team.
According to Don Schwerzler, founder of the Family Business Institute, the organization reviewed a number of candidates before selecting Dr. Fleming to join its exclusive team of
professional resources. Fleming has earned a national reputation for his work in coaching highly successful, fast-track executives and entrepreneurs and brings the ideal credentials
needed to help train the next generation of leaders and owners of family businesses.
Schwerzler is an internationally recognized family business expert who pioneered the multi-discipline consulting approach that has proven to be consistently successful in dealing with the
unique and complex issues that confront families in business together. The Family Business Institute'ss web organization, Understanding Family Business, is the highest ranked family
business resource site on the Internet.
There is an enormous amount of literature about the value of succession planning,'s8221; says Schwerzler, 's8220;but creating the succession plan is only about 20% of the effort that goes
into our work in managing the succession process. For many family businesses, succession is approached as a transgenerational event, but the real value is recognizing the succession
process as an opportunity for innovation and transformation. That is where the real excitement takes place, and that's8217;s why Dr. Fleming was attracted to our organization. Fleming'ss
work on REALignment (TM) of family businesses will make 's8216;innovation's8217; an integral success strategy for family-owned businesses.'s8221;
Dr. Fleming received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and has utilized 10 years of clinical and organizational insight that can best be explained as 's8220;the
neuroscience of leadership and behavior change in the workplace.'s8221; Fleming has been called a 's8220;man of unusually acute insight's8221; by corporate philosopher and best selling
author, Tom V. Morris (If Aristotle Ran General Motors). Dr. Fleming's8217;s writings and insights have been featured in the New York Times, on msn.com Consumer Health Journal, Prevention
magazine, and Physician Executive.
Dr. Fleming contributes regularly to the Gately Newsletter, as well as being a regular columnist on 's8220;Transformation Insights's8221; with Executive Decision, a national innovation
and executive development magazine. He is one of four North American change management consultants chosen by the leading change management network to represent North America in corporate
transformative change, a mission that is represented by over 40 countries and international gurus worldwide. He has received a leadership and contribution award from Congressman Tom
Reynolds that honors Dr Fleming for his work in teaching innovation principals and practices to family-owned businesses.