The Essentials has been carefully planned to maximize each participant’s time away from work. But working with family should be fun – after all, balancing work and fun is critical to sustainable success.

Family Business Speakers
Included in the program are family business owners and founders who will share their unique struggles and successes inside their family businesses.

Cocktails and Dinner at The Dallas Museum of Art
At the Dallas Museum of Art, enjoy private tours of two of the Museum’s outstanding collections of art from around the world. Afterwards, dinner will be served in the Museum’s trendsetting restaurant, Seventeen Seventeen, featuring “cuisine worthy of its museum environment.”

Carl Westcott
As our Keynote Speaker, we are honored to have Carl Westcott, recipient of the 2003 Horatio Alger Award, an honor bestowed upon people of exceptional character worthy of the highest recognition for career achievement in America.

Golf Outing
Join fellow “Essentials” at The Tribute Golf Club. The Tribute is a true links course, patterned after the legendary courses of Scotland, and has been named by Golf Digest as the #1 Public Golf Course in the Dallas area and one of America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses for 2005-2006.  Sign up early as space is limited!