Ira Bryck Information

Since 1994, Ira Bryck has helped family businesses communicate with increased clarity and purpose, as a mediator and facilitator. He has helped business families in many industries and stages of growth to resolve conflict, run more coherent meetings, create and institute professional policies and governance structures, and helped the strategic thinking of families planning their ownership and management transitions. Ira brings a mixture of professionalism and humanity to the consulting process, and helps clients "Treat the business like a business and the family like a family." Ira is the Director of the University of Massachusetts Family Business Center, a non-commercial learning community for business families in Western Mass. The center offers a series of dinner forums; the newsletter, Related Matters, advice column, Dear Ira: Fresh Air and Cold Water for the Perplexed Business Family, and excellent confidential roundtables. Ira also created the highly rated and ranked website, www.umass.edu/fambiz Ira and the center have won awards for innovation and creativity in family business education, from the International Family Business Program Association and the University Continuing Education Association.