By: Dr. JoAnne Norton
Vice President of Shareholder Relations at Freedom
Communications
Freedom Communications, a media company headquartered in
Irvine, California, owns and operates 70 news publications,
including the Orange County Register, and 8 television
stations across the United States. As VP of Shareholder
Relations, Dr. Norton serves on Freedom’s Executive Council
and is the liaison between the fifty family shareholders and
the senior executives. She has been in the Shareholder
Relations department for ten years where she works primarily
in the area of family governance.
Dr. Norton earned her Ed. D. in Organizational Leadership
from Pepperdine University in 2005, and the title of her
dissertation is Exploring Relationships Between Successful
Non-family CEO’s of Successful Family Businesses and the
Family Owners. She has a Certificate in Family Advising from
the Family Firm Institute, and in October 2005 was named a
Fellow by FFI.
Dr. Norton trained in the Postgraduate Program in Family
Systems Theory at Georgetown University Family Center, and
is an adjunct professor of Family Businesses Dynamics at
California State University, Fullerton. She serves on the
Advisory Board of the Cal State Fullerton Family Business
Council and facilitates the Women’s Affinity Group, which is
composed of second-generation women business owners who
belong to the Council.
The most important relationships we have are with
our spouses and our business partners, so it is really
exciting when our spouses ARE our business partners.
According to the Small Business Administration, the number
of businesses run by couples has increased more than 90
percent in the last decade, and working with a spouse has
been called “the new American dream.”
Please join us for a highly educational and interactive
morning as our panel of Cal State Fullerton Family Business
Council members share their secrets for successful marriages
as well as successful family businesses.
The facilitator for the panel will be Dr. JoAnne Norton,
professor of Cal State Fullerton’s Family Business Dynamics
course and the Vice President of Shareholder Relations for
Freedom Communications.
Date:
Wednesday December 10th, 2008
Time: 7:30 - 11:00 am(Breakfast
Included)
Location: At the Scott O’ Brien
Innovation Center Room 3230
Cal State Fullerton, Steven G. Mihaylo Hall, College of
Business and Economics
Information: Robbin Bretzing (714)
278-4182
Email:
fbc@fullerton.edu
RSVP: 714 278 4182 or fbc@fullerton.edu
Reservation required
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