The Center for Family Business serves as a vital resource for family-owned companies, supporting their unique needs across generations. We provide educational programs, networking, and peer forums specifically developed for multi-generational family businesses.

Our Coaching Research Lab is a platform for research that advances the science of leadership coaching. It provides access to a network and early research findings, offering partners powerful tools to enhance your organization’s management capabilities.

The Fowler Center promotes sustainability and social impact, demonstrating how business can drive large-scale positive change. Partnering with companies, we help integrate environmental and social strategies, leveraging our students’ talents. Our global research highlights innovations where for-profit businesses benefit society and the environment. The Fowler Center supports companies in defining, refining, or showcasing their sustainable impact.

Located in Sears think[box], the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship empowers the CWRU community to develop and showcase entrepreneurial skills. We support students, faculty, and alumni by fostering action, collaboration, and learning through failure. The Institute helps entrepreneurs move from idea to venture and succeed at CWRU and beyond.

Custom Programs

Weatherhead is a trusted talent partner in high potential leadership development. We created a leadership development experience, a two week residency program with strategic projects and executive coaching, as the gold standard for the company’s leaders.

Open Enrollment Programs

Program access to more than 70 different program opportunities each year for employees.

Internships

Early exposure to Weatherhead graduates through experiential internships.

Leadership Transition Coaching

Designed and delivered highly customized coaching experience for senior leaders transitioning to higher level leadership roles within the company.

Custom Credential Program

When the CIO needed to establish the highest standard of problem solving with data, Weatherhead created a custom program focusing on understanding how to deliver data-driven decision-making. Powered by Weatherhead Executive Education, the program prepares participants for what it means to inspire insight-driven decision making in everyday tasks and responsibilities and ensure business decisions are of the highest quality and supported with data. Employees take a deep dive into the various disciplines, capabilities, and technical know-how involved in building an intelligence driven organization.

Sponsorship

Challenges graduate student teams to strategically identify a specific customer problem the company will be uniquely positioned to solve via student research and suggested approaches. Top solutions receive cash prizes after student design session, hackathon and presentations.