Neil N. Koenig, PhD
132 North Cindy Avenue
Clovis, California 93612
559.323.9355
Fax: 559.323.1795
Email: nk@nkoenig.com
Website: http://www.nkoenig.com

Present Position

Family business consultant: specializing in intergenerational succession, and the interface between family and ownership, family and management, and family and governance.

Management consultant: specializing in organizational leadership and succession at the senior executive and board of directors’ level

Leadership development: conducting the skills training program, “Good Hearted, Hard Nosed Leaders” ©; and executive coaching

Facilitator: management and board of directors’ retreats

Public speaker on family business, leadership, and succession

Member of the Board of Directors, The Payroll People, Fresno, 2003-Present

Friend of the Board, Community Catalysts of California, San Diego, 2001-Present

Recent Speaking Engagements

• Conventions: American Banker’s Association in San Antonio; Congress of the International Nut Council, Rome, Italy and Charleston; California CPA Education Foundation, Newport, San Luis Obispo, Fresno; Western States Equipment Dealers, Monterey; Western Rural Telephone Association, San Antonio; State Dairy Associations in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington; Farm Cooperatives’ Boards of Directors in St. Louis, Nashville, Omaha, Wichita, Portland, and Wisconsin Dells
  
  
• Business schools: University of Southern California, Santa Clara University, Oregon State, University of the Pacific, Conrad Grebel College in Waterloo, Ontario, Kings College in Wilkes-Barre, St. Francis University in Ft. Wayne, Santa Barbara City College, and California State-Fullerton

Past Positions

• Member of the Board of Directors, Fresno Surgery Center, 1996-1999
• Private practice as Clinical Psychologist—primary care, focus on families: fulltime, 1979-89 in Fresno, California
• Director of Behavioral Science Education, Department of Family Practice, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, California: 1976-79
• Clinical Instructor, Department of Family Practice, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis: 1977-79
• Behavioral Science Instructor, Department of Family Practice, Valley Medical Center, Fresno, California: 1973-76
• Pastor, Wauwatosa Avenue United Methodist Church, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin: 1971-73
• Pastor, The United Methodist Churches of Tomahawk and Spirit, Wisconsin: 1967-71

Teaching Positions

• Lecturer, California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno: Leadership: 1993
• Lecturer, Department of Advanced Studies, California State University Fresno: Family Therapy: 1986
• Lecturer, University of San Francisco: Family Therapy and Family Law: 1985
• Lecturer, California State University, Bakersfield: Family Therapy: 1979
  Clinical Professor, Family Nurse Practitioner Program, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis: 1977-79
• Clinical Instructor, Department of Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine, Stanford University Medical School: 1977-79
• Lecturer, Behavioral Sciences, Division of Ambulatory and Community Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco: 1974-76

Education

• Doctorate of Philosophy, California School of Professional Psychology: 1976
• Masters of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, New York: 1967
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin: 1964

Publications

• You Can’t Fire Me, I’m Your Father: What Every Family Business Needs to Know, Kiplinger Press, Washington, D.C., 1999
• No Puedes Despedirme, Soy Tu Padre! Claves Para El Equilibrio Entre Empresa Y Familia, Ediciones Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, 2000, second printing, 2004
• Successful Estate Planning: What Works and What Doesn’t, Private Wealth Advisor, London, Vol. 3, #9, May 2001 (co-authored with John Ambrecht)
• The Two Jobs of Family Business, Almond Facts, Nov/Dec’98
• The Nuts and Bolts of Family Business, World Tree Nut Trade, Sept’98
• Back to the Future: A 1930s Group Incentive Plan Proves More Than Useful for Today’s ESOP Companies, The Journal of Employee Ownership, Law, and Finance, Vol. 9, #1, Winter, 1997 (co-authored with Bill Nicholson)

 

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