The differentiator
The Wall Family Business Center
Prairie Classical Christian Academy is built for the children of family-owned businesses. The Center serves two audiences: the students who may one day carry a business, and the parents and owners who will place one in their hands.
For students
Taught as real subjects, with real numbers
The electives are shaped by a single question - what must a child know to one day take a place in the family business? It is knowledge that neither high school nor college ordinarily provides.
Schools take field trips to museums. The Academy will take field trips to businesses.
Finance
How money works - interest, debt, investment and risk, with real numbers.
Real estate
Land, buildings, leases and value - the asset class most family businesses touch.
Accounting
Reading a balance sheet and an income statement the way the owner does.
Marketing
Why customers choose, and how a business earns the right to be chosen.
Operations
How work actually gets done - people, process, inventory, delivery.
Taught to children who will someday sit at the owner's desk.
For parents and owners
The Center itself
The Center convenes speakers and working sessions on succession, transition and operations - for the families of enrolled children and for the wider business community. The hardest questions a family business faces are seldom about the product. They are about the handover.
The founder taught real estate at the Wisconsin School of Business and spent four decades building businesses in the state.
Register your interest
Tell the Academy who you are and which side of the Center interests you - the student track, the parent program, or speaking.