Speakers
Donald
J. Jonovic, Ph.D.
An advisor to business owners since 1973, focuses on the unique issues
related to management development, growth and ownership transition
in the successful owner-managed business. His professional consulting practice
has included industrial and agricultural clients throughout North
America, ranging in size from $1 million to $2 billion, with an emphasis
on companies transitioning to successor management teams, including those
with a significant proportion of non-family key managers.
Areas of Specialization
Dr. Jonovic’s expertise covers a range of areas, including:
- Development and management of share holder communication processes
- Establishment
of owner/partner policies, including risk and return standards
- Creation
of comprehensive shareholder and partner agreements
- Transition of
management to successors related or unrelated to current owners
- Development
of key management teams
- Design and implementation of shareholder value-directed compensation
systems
- Formation and management of boards and advisory teams
- Facilitation
of business planning and strategic positioning projects
Board Service
He has helped to create, serves on and chairs numerous advisory and formal
boards in closely held businesses. In his board service, Dr. Jonovic chairs
a number of compensation committees, and has been
instrumental in the creation and implementation of incentive and growth-participation
compensation plans for key managers. He also serves on strategic planning
committees, frequently acting as facilitator of management, strategic
planning, and positioning sessions.
Consulting/Trading Activities.
He has worked with manufacturers, banks,
professional firms, farm
bureaus and insurance companies, d signing and delivering client
and advisor training programs to help those
organizations assure business growth and continuity for their customers,
clients and members.
Publications/Books
Founder of Cleveland’s Family
Business Management Services, and President of its
publishing division, Jamieson Press, Dr. Jonovic is a frequent contributor
to the business press. He has written seven books about business ownership,
family business transition, and the management of change in the closely
held company:
- The Ultimate Legacy: How Family and Closely Held Businesses Can
Achieve Their REAL Purpose
- Someday It’ll All Be Yours … Or
Will It? How to Survive—and
Enjoy—Succession in a Family Business
- Passing Down the Farm: The
OTHER Farm Crisis
- Planmaker:tm A Growth and Succession Planning
Workbook for Family Companies
- The Second-Generation Boss: A
Successor’s Guide to Becoming the
NEXT Owner-Manager of a
Family Business
- Outside Directors in the Family-Owned Business: Why,
When, Who, and How
- Someday It’ll All Be …Who’s? The Light er Side of the Family Business
Dr. Jonovic’s management column in Successful Farming reaches
more than 1 million readers every month.
Since the column’s inception in 1988, it continues to be one
of the most popular features in that magazine.
Education/Academic Affiliations
He holds
a B.S. in Mathematics from Marquette University, and received his M.A.
and Ph.D. in Communication at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is former Director of
the Ashland Institute of Private Enterprise at Ashland University,
Ashland, Ohio, and has served as
adjunct assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Jonovic has been a visiting lecturer at university
programs through out the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
Dr. Jonovic and his wife, Pamela, live in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
He can be reached at:
Family Business Management Services
Post Office Box
201400
Cleveland, Ohio
44120
Phone: (216) 752-7970
Fax: (216) 752-4100
Email: djonovic@familybusinessmgt.com
Website:
www.familybusinessmgt.com
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