Paul Karofsky Motivational Speaker from Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Paul Karofsky is an internationally respected speaker, educator, writer, and consultant to families in business together. Paul is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard Business School's OPM Program. After 22 years, mostly as third generation CEO in his family's distribution business, he sold the company and earned his Ed.M. from Harvard University focused on the psychosocial lives of families and intergenerational relationships. He is Executive Director Emeritus of Northeastern University's Center for Family Business, which he was instrumental in launching. Paul is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Family Firm Institute and holds a Certificate in Family Business Advising with Fellow Status. He is a recipient of the Institute's Hollander Award and a member of the faculty of FFI's Global Education Network and Certificate Program. Also trained as a mediator, Paul was a peer reviewer for Harvard University Press, a monthly columnist for BusinessWeek Online and Case Study Editor of Nation's Business and Families in Business. A member of WPO/YPO, which cited him as an "outstanding resource," Paul has been married for forty-eight years. He and his wife have two children and four grandchildren. Partners with his son, David, in Transition Consulting Group and The Peer Alliance, they are the only father-son team consulting to family businesses. Paul speaks and facilitates workshops on topics ranging including succession planning- helping the senior generation "let go" and younger generation "take hold," leadership development, differing generational perspectives, communication and conflict resolution, and governance structures.