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How to Lead Your Family Business: Excelling Through Unexpected Crises, Choices, and Challenges
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
As a fourth-generation company president/CEO, Julie Charlestein has developed a unique set of strategies for navigating the distinctive challenges and choices facing family businesses.
How to Lead Your Family Business is a master class in working with and for family, reshaping generations-old company cultures, earning your colleagues’ respect, and more.
Family businesses, from massive corporations like Walmart to the mom-and-pop store on your local street, have always been a vital part of the American life and economy. But as these family-owned companies evolve and grow, so too do their unique difficulties and the need for dynamic leadership. And as more women rise into leadership roles within commonly male-dominated organizations, challenges abound in already tense environments, where family members also happen to be one’s coworkers—and superiors.
Julie Charlestein, the president and CEO of Premier Dental Products Company, is the fourth-generation leader of an incredibly successful family-owned enterprise, and she’s seen it all firsthand, including family drama in the workplace and the office politics that come with any corporation.
In How to Lead Your Family Business , Julie gets vulnerable about her experience as an emerging leader and ultimately CEO, who has worked to earn her colleagues’ respect while navigating the succession to her father’s company. Through stories full of candor and humor, Julie shares her leadership adventure, offering actionable strategies for those leading and working within their own family businesses.
As a fourth-generation company president/CEO, Julie Charlestein has developed a unique set of strategies for navigating the distinctive challenges and choices facing family businesses.
How to Lead Your Family Business is a master class in working with and for family, reshaping generations-old company cultures, earning your colleagues’ respect, and more.
Family businesses, from massive corporations like Walmart to the mom-and-pop store on your local street, have always been a vital part of the American life and economy. But as these family-owned companies evolve and grow, so too do their unique difficulties and the need for dynamic leadership. And as more women rise into leadership roles within commonly male-dominated organizations, challenges abound in already tense environments, where family members also happen to be one’s coworkers—and superiors.
Julie Charlestein, the president and CEO of Premier Dental Products Company, is the fourth-generation leader of an incredibly successful family-owned enterprise, and she’s seen it all firsthand, including family drama in the workplace and the office politics that come with any corporation.
In How to Lead Your Family Business , Julie gets vulnerable about her experience as an emerging leader and ultimately CEO, who has worked to earn her colleagues’ respect while navigating the succession to her father’s company. Through stories full of candor and humor, Julie shares her leadership adventure, offering actionable strategies for those leading and working within their own family businesses.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published February 14, 2023
About the author
Julie Charlestein
2 booksJulie Charlestein is a Philadelphia-based business leader and healthcare innovator who serves as the CEO of Premier Dental, a global provider of inspired solutions for daily dentistry.
Leading a century-old business as the company’s fourth-generation chief executive, Julie is recognized within the dental industry and beyond as a champion of creative healthcare solutions to meet the evolving needs of today’s patients.
She was voted one of The Top 25 Most Influential Women in Dentistry by Dental Products Report and recognized as one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s "Most Admired CEOs.” Julie was awarded the Silver Stevie Award as Female Executive of the Year, and honored with the Gold Award by the Best in Biz Awards as Executive of the Year, and nominated as one of IFAH’s Top 100 Healthcare Leaders. The Wall Street Journal featured her perspective in the WSJ-Pro AI cover story “AI Helps Medical Device Makers Punch Above Their Weight.”
She currently serves on the Board of Overseers for The University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, the Dean's Advisory Council of Temple University Dental School, and the Board of ASDOH (Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health). She has previously served on the Dean's Advisory Board of the School of Dental Medicine at Harvard University. Julie has served as the Chair of the Government Relations Committee for the Dental Trade Alliance, and is a member of The Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Julie holds a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and a master's degree from Temple University.
Julie is also the founder and visionary of izzo,® a direct to consumer e-commerce company. izzo® is the first and only professionally inspired 4-in-1 oral care system and can be found at www.izzosmile.com.
Julie lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia with her delicious family
Leading a century-old business as the company’s fourth-generation chief executive, Julie is recognized within the dental industry and beyond as a champion of creative healthcare solutions to meet the evolving needs of today’s patients.
She was voted one of The Top 25 Most Influential Women in Dentistry by Dental Products Report and recognized as one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s "Most Admired CEOs.” Julie was awarded the Silver Stevie Award as Female Executive of the Year, and honored with the Gold Award by the Best in Biz Awards as Executive of the Year, and nominated as one of IFAH’s Top 100 Healthcare Leaders. The Wall Street Journal featured her perspective in the WSJ-Pro AI cover story “AI Helps Medical Device Makers Punch Above Their Weight.”
She currently serves on the Board of Overseers for The University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, the Dean's Advisory Council of Temple University Dental School, and the Board of ASDOH (Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health). She has previously served on the Dean's Advisory Board of the School of Dental Medicine at Harvard University. Julie has served as the Chair of the Government Relations Committee for the Dental Trade Alliance, and is a member of The Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Julie holds a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and a master's degree from Temple University.
Julie is also the founder and visionary of izzo,® a direct to consumer e-commerce company. izzo® is the first and only professionally inspired 4-in-1 oral care system and can be found at www.izzosmile.com.
Julie lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia with her delicious family
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