Kathleen Hoye

Bio

Kathleen is currently a principal in the consulting services team at Cherry Bekaert CPAs & Advisors, and leads the Family Business Advisory Services team. She has had extensive experience helping and advising firms with their growth, development, and passing enterprises to the next generation.

Her areas of focus include business strategy, family and business governance, and policy development, succession planning, leadership development, next generation career coaching, family education and communication. Kathleen also focuses on exit planning that allows owners to exit their businesses on their terms and conditions. Before working at Cherry Bekaert, she was the director of the Family Business Center at the University of Louisville, and director of the Small Business Development Center for North Central Kentucky. She also created the Vogt Invention and Innovation Fund for the Vogt family in Louisville, which provides seed-stage support and capital for inventors and product developers as well as co-launching the award-winning radio series “This I Believe” on NPR.

Kathleen is a frequent presenter at family business and trade conferences, educational programs, and meetings covering topics such as family governance, change management, succession planning, exit planning, leadership development and family communication.

She earned her BA from Valparaiso University and her Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois-Chicago, with a focus on industrial retention. She is a fellow with the Family Firm Institute, an active member of Psychodynamics of Family Business (PDFB), and was the youngest recipient of the Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy. She is formally trained and certified in team process and conflict mediation.