The Legacy Continues: 2025 Family Business Awards and Summit
The 2025 UofL Family Business Center's Annual Summit and Awards Ceremony:
Family Business Awards
Join us as we recognize the winners of the 2025 Family Business Awards presented by Commonwealth Credit Union. These awards honor excellence in family business operations, building continuity, community and philanthropy, education, and continuing the rich legacy of family businesses in our community.
Honorees will be recognized in each of the following categories:
- Generations of Excellence
- Emerging Family Business Innovator
- Legacy Builder
- Round Table Luminary
- Commonwealth Credit Union Excellence in Community Impact
- Family Business Community Catalyst
- Family Business Legacy
Family Business Summit
Legacy in Real Time: Leading from Within in Multi-Generational Family Business
In this powerful and deeply personal keynote, Anne Bauer invites audiences behind the scenes of what it really takes to sustain, lead, and evolve a family business across generations. As the 6th-generation owner of a business founded in 1891 -- and someone who has worked for, with, and alongside her parents, siblings, and spouse -- Anne brings unparalleled depth, insight, and empathy to the unique challenges family-run businesses face.
With a professional background in psychology, coaching, and energy work, Anne weaves together decades of lived experience and cutting-edge leadership support into a talk that's both grounding and transformative.
Through the lens of her signature Three Pillars of Legacy -- Clear Communication, Healthy Energetic Boundaries, and Energetic Awareness -- Anne breaks open the myth that legacy is about perfection, strategy, or ticking boxes. Instead, she reframes legacy as a living practice: something we embody, navigate, and evolve every single day -- especially when business and family are inextricably linked.
