Amy M. Schuman - Establishing Core Values

Family Business Consulting Group

Amy Schuman, a principal of the Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. works with family businesses on leadership development, communication skills and team building. Her experience is centered on helping family members collaboratively create systems, structures and relationships to help them function as effective stewards of their enterprise.

Amy creates leadership and career development approaches tailored for sibling teams, young adults, teens and younger children in the next generation. She helps create conditions for successful generational transfers.

Amy was the founding facilitator of the Next Generation Leadership Institute, an intensive, two-year program for next generation family business leaders that is part of the Loyola University Chicago Family Business Center. In that capacity, from 1996 - 2006, Amy coached over 30 men and women to assume leadership positions in their family businesses. Amy also founded and facilitated Loyola's first Peer Advisory Group for women at Loyola and also taught group process and facilitation skills in Loyola's Family Business Communication Institute.

Amy is the author of Nurturing the Talent to Nurture the Legacy: Career Development in the Family Business and the co-author of A Woman's Place...:The Crucial Roles of Women in Family Business. She has presented at many university family business centers, the Family Firm Institute Conference and the Family Business Network meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. In July 1993 Amy participated with President Clinton on a panel describing "The Future of the American Workplace." For over 10 years, Amy was director, Organization Development for Fel-Pro, Inc., a well-known family-owned and operated global auto parts manufacturer. Amy has been an adjunct faculty member of the Lake Forest College Graduate School of Management and has taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago Campus, MBA program. Amy has a B.A. in Psychology from Oberlin College and earned her MBA at The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.