Family Business Consulting

• McCann & Associates Consulting: Founder in 2000. Work with family businesses in the areas of succession, communication, conflict resolution, gender issues, and development of the next generation.
  
• Director of the Family Business Center at Stetson University, 1998 to 2006: Since 1998, have worked with over 100 students and many of their families, including retreats for family businesses.
  
• Next Generation Focus: Founder and architect of Stetson University's Family Business Center including the nationally award winning Holistic Model. Full professor at Stetson, including teaching family business courses. Author and editor of many articles and books, most recently author of When Your Parents Sign the Paychecks (JIST).

Education and Training

• B.A. (Accounting), Stetson University. Licensed as a CPA in Florida since 1981.
  
• J.D., With Honors, University of Florida, 1988.
  
• Certified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
  
• Board of Directors of the Family Firm Institute, 2005-08.

Other Experience

• Tenured Full Professor of Business, Stetson University
  
• Strategic Alliance for Business Solutions (SABS): Cofounder with Dr. Michelle DeMoss in 1994 partnering with law firms, banks, accounting firms, Stetson College of Law, and other businesses to improve the communication, client relations, professionalism, and other workplace issues.

Work with My Family's Businesses

• Research Coordinator, Glenbeigh: Worked with my family business leading the effort to help the company develop five new hospitals, including successfully obtaining the state licenses for all five.
  
• Vice President, A. Thatcher: In 1987 began an entrepreneurial venture with two family members. A. Thatcher Inc. was a company that designed a prototype for franchises directly selling custom clothing to business people.

What Others Say About Greg McCann

"Greg gives insights on all the issues that every family business is confronted with on a daily basis and gives you the ability to create a more effective working environment."
~ Next Generation Member of a 2nd Generation Family Business

"Our family based business has benefited greatly from the insights and experiences we have received. To realize that we as a family business, have problems, situations and opportunities that are not unique to us, was a revelation and to know there is a source for advice and support in these areas is a real blessing and comfort to us."
~ Founder and President of a Family Business

"Because of the work of Greg McCann, Stetson's engagement of all of the constituencies of family business and its concomitant endeavor to weave a tapestry of their interests and needs is the single most exciting idea I have encountered anywhere in the nearly two-decade-old partnership of universities and family business."
~ Consultant