FREEPORT - A four-day seminar designed to guide family-owned businesses through the challenges of creating high-performing governing boards will be held Tuesday through Friday, June 19-22.

"Building Family Boards and Councils" is sponsored by the University of Southern Maine's Institute for Family-Owned Business and will take place in Freeport's Harraseeket Inn.

Keynoters for the conference include Anne Eiting Klamar, CEO, president and a member of the fourth generation leading the Midmark Corp. of Versailles, Ohio; Tom Chappell, founder of Tom's of Maine and the Saltwater Institute; and Mary Schmid Daugherty, a finance professor at the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, a third-generation family business owner, and president of the Family Council.

Among the presentations offered during the three-day conference are: "The Right Time to Form a Board," "Overcoming Resistance to Change," and "Recruiting New Directors."

Fees include room and meals, with a significant discount for the second registrant from the same family business. Full conference details are available at www.usm.maine.edu/ifob/exeedu/welcome.html.

For additional information, contact Thomas Juenemann at the University of Southern Maine at 207-780-5935 or tomj@usm.maine.edu.