Business Exit Planning: When and how to start?
Join us for two interviews of Sandra Schulte with author William B. Bierce about his practical exit planning guide “Smarter Business Exits.” Ms. Schulte has her own Sandra Schulte’s “Speak Up!” YouTube Channel podcasting interviews with various guest discussing a wide range of topics relevant to local and national interests. In Episodes 1 and 2 about Business Exit Planning, Mr. Bierce demystifies the emotional, business and financial considerations that business owners need to understand at all stages in the business life cycle, from startup to growth to transition. He explains business exit intelligence™ as a process for continuous process improvement to build and protect enterprise value. Join William Bierce and Sandra Schulte as they explore business exit readiness, how to plan for a future sale, management buyout, ESOP or transfer to a family successor.
How to Develop Your Business Exit Intelligence and Succession Plan or Exit Plan
Prof. Joe O’Mahoney is a tenured Professor of Consulting in England and a leading authority on the consulting industry. He provides board level advisory services to boutique consulting firms focusing on growth and exit. Joe’s research on the profession has won several prestigious awards and publications, and resulted in leadership of high-profile government-funded research into the consulting industry. Joe’s textbook on Management Consulting (published by Oxford University Press) was the best-selling in Europe and his most recent book on growing consulting firms in the digital age (published by Routledge) is the ‘go to’ growth text for CEOs and Managing Partners all over the world.
Joe also practices what he preaches: he has been a corporate consultant, an internal consultant and a solo consultant. He has spent fifteen years providing advisory services to small consulting firms on growth and, in 2007 sold his own company, StayMobile Technology Ltd. In addition to his private practice, he is the founder of Repair Café Wales CIC and Consulting Mastered Ltd. Joe has taught and coached over 2,000 executives and MBA students about management consultancy and helped hundreds of students gain places at leading consulting firms. Joe studied History at Oxford University and obtained his PhD and MSc at Warwick University. You can find more about Joe here: www.joeomahoney.com
How to Develop Your Business Exit Intelligence
Interview with Joe Paris, entrepreneur, strategic and operational advisor, consultant, founder of Operational Excellence Society and consulting company Xonitek, author of best-selling book State of Readiness and podcaster on management strategies. For more info, visit https://opexsociety.org/about/leadership/