Participating in the Latin-American Step Summit has been one of the most enriching experiences of my professional life as a company’s executive. It was not a seminar in which highly qualified speakers held conferences about specifics topics while the attendants just listen to their presentations but, as the distinguish professor Timothy Habbershon said, it’s richness resides in it’s organization. This seminar gave me the unique opportunity to interact actively by exchanging knowledge and experiences with peers from Babson College, experts in family business, academics from different Latin-American’s Universities and representatives of our region’s family enterprises.
The intense strategies’ exchange that took place during every session enabled me to relate principles and methodologies already known to its practical uses by analyzing the strategies we shared. I found out through our discussions, the tools or structures needed to implement in my business these new strategies as a way to overcome the challenges unique to this type of business. I also develop my skills to look for more assertive strategies in order to make my family enterprise more dynamic. I expect, by doing so, to develop our family business’ full potential as we become ourselves, entrepreneurs and creators of richness so that our business will stand for the future generations.
I hopefully expect that we will meet again in another summit in order to discuss about the results we have obtained by adopting in our family business the strategies we shared during the seminar. I congratulate all the staff on having organized such an excellent Summit and on behalf of my family, I want to deeply thank you for your invitation; by doing so, you allowed them to share, through my learning experience, the knowledge I acquired in your seminar. I am sure that from now on we will have a better understanding of the unique dynamics of a family business.
Sincerely yours,
Lic. Carmen Guerly Ureña de Espaillat, MBA
Shareholder MAU
Dominican Republic
