Alumni

The Student Teams Achieving Results (STAR) consulting program, established in 2005, is proud to have graduated over 3,000 alumni. While the STAR leadership is constantly innovating to stay relevant and impactful, the program’s mission hasn’t changed: to provide unique and powerful learning experiences for students and produce actionable insights for companies and nonprofits. STAR invites alumni to reconnect and learn about various ways to engage with STAR.

Participants will examine the importance of articulating a shared purpose; defining a clear, compelling ownership vision; and creating explicit goals for growth, liquidity, and control. The course examines how ownership priorities influence strategy, capital allocation, governance structures, and leadership selection over time. The program will focus on clarifying ownership roles, decision rights, and governance to support effective communication and long-term continuity.

On September 29, the Family Enterprise Center will launch a unique roundtable for senior family business leaders who are contemplating or have already begun the transition away from day-to-day leadership. Built for C-suite leaders whose identity and purpose have long been shaped by their roles in the family enterprise, this peer group offers a space to explore new ways to use the talents, experience, and wisdom developed while leading the family enterprise. Through shared stories, research on aging well, and examples of successful transitions, members support one another in navigating this pivotal phase of life. Facilitated by Steve Miller, co-founder UNC Kenan-Flagler's Family Enterprise Center, the group is designed to bring together 8–12 seasoned leaders ready to design their own meaningful next chapter, not “retirement,” but a purposeful next act.

For more information contact Lauren Willets, director of the Family Enterprise Center.