Sam Seltzer ’48 Mentors Forum

The Sam Seltzer ’48 Mentors Forum is an annual one-day event held each March, typically in New York City. The event connects current Cornell students and recent alumni with scholars, advisors and family business leaders for one-on-one mentoring and coaching sessions.

Students have the exceptional opportunity to select their own agendas and interest areas for exploration during the time spent with their mentors. Cornell Family Business mentors are carefully selected to provide for a diversity of experience and expertise.

Common discussion topics

Students are increasingly seeking out opportunities to interact with family business industry leaders on a variety of topics, including:

  • New business opportunities
  • Career opportunities
  • Returning, or not returning, to the family business
  • The role of women in their family’s business
  • Leadership
  • New perspectives
  • Succession planning
  • Family wealth and values
  • Conflict
  • Family office and governance
  • Family enterprise advising and the role of consultants
  • Legal considerations in family business

Eligible student participants

The Mentors Forum is open to all current Cornell students and recent alumni who have graduated within the past five years. Take advantage of a wealth of information from senior family business leaders and advisors in a one-on-one setting.

For more information

Contact Daniel Van Der Vliet, Executive Director

Smith Family Business Initiative at Cornell