Exit Coach Radio

Toby Needleman, Vistage Speaker and Positive Psychologist, has been a Life Success Coach for over 4 decades. Toby helps people unlock their true potential and live lives full of purpose, passion, and meaning. Her expertise is in helping people grow younger and making the rest of your life the best of your life. Aging is inevitable, but a decline in the quality of your life is not, and Toby has the keys to audacious aging. 

In her interview, Toby shares ways you can create a quantum leap in your health, vitality, and fulfillment. She discusses strategies f...

Steve Smith discusses Leadership vs Authority-  If you have authority in your position, does that mean you are considered a leader?

Questions discussed:
1 – What is the most important aspect about being coached?

2 – How does someone determine that coaching would be good for them?

3 – How long does it take to see improvement?

GrowthSource Coaching is a business and executive coaching firm that helps business professionals improve themselves so they can run and grow better companies.   

Website:   www.growthsourcecoaching.com

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Sometimes growing sales is counterproductive to growing the sale value of your business. Ken Sanginario explains.

James Wittmack is a Master Strategist at IntelliVest Advisors. James helps small to medium size companies prepare for exit by driving profitability through operational efficiency.

Website: intellivestadvisors.com

Claire Billingsley is a much-in-demand Speaker for a very simple reason - she helps Leaders develop thought and communication techniques that go beyond the competition.

Contact info:

Email: BillingsleyConsulting@gmail.com
Website: www.BillingsleyConsultingGroup.com

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John Bly is an author and co-managing member of LBA Haynes Strand, PLLC. Today, he will discuss small business and the current M&A environment. 

In this 20 minute interview, Russ Williams, Founder of the Passkeys Foundation and the Ethical Edge, discusses several thought and ideas about the importance of the business community adopting and teaching ethical behavior. A very thought provoking and brilliant interview.

The interview was conducted by David Elliott, President and CEO of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, on "The Chamber of Commerce Corner" a feature of The Exit Coach Radio Show - the Information Station for Age 50+ Business Owners contemplating Business Succession and Exit Planning.

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Wayne Pinnell, Managing Partner of Haskell & White, one of Southern CA's largest independently owned accounting firms, shares tips, ideas and precautions for business owners on their way to exiting their business.

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Quick tips from Tom Gledhill.

Transcript:

Bill: What are some of the major buyer types of businesses out there? It’s important to understand the differences, here’s Tom Glehill.

Tom: Buyer types, that I’ve identified and I use, are: you’ve got your strategic buyers and then you’ve got your sophisticated financial buyers, which are basically pegs and small investment groups. And then you’ve got your lifestyle buyers, which basically are people that are buyi...

TAB is a Peer Advisory Board that brings small groups of business owners together to discuss their most pressing challenges and in turn offer each other advice on how to overcome those challenges. Questions Answered: 
1. What are Peer Advisory Boards? 2. How do Peer Advisory Boards help business owners? 3. What are the most common challenges business owners face?   Contact Info:    Website: www.tabhuntingtonbeach.com Email: vcsigmon@tabhuntingtonbeach.com   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com    

Al Killeen is the President, CEO, and Founder of Integrative Mastery Programs. The business is a set of integrated programs and training for successful executives and organizations that focuses on Leadership, Management and Coaching to create empowered, zealous cultures based on values.   Questions Discussed:   1. What is different about IMP? 2. Who are typical IMP clients? 3. How effective is the IMP system?   Contact Info:    Email Address: alk@integrativemasteryprograms.com   Website: www.integrativemasteryprograms.com   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com    

Questions Answered:

1. What is the biggest bottleneck in a business?

2. What toll has the last 5 years (since the global financial crisis) taken on the business owner?

3. What is the 1 thing that a business owner can do RIGHT NOW to begin growing their business?

Contact and Offers:

CarlGould@7StageAdvisors.com for a FREE Business Analysis or Call 1-877-GO-7-STAGES

Carl's Book can be found on www.The7StagesOfSmallBusinessSuccess.com..and see Carl's video interview of each of the 7 Stages

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Kathy Mondotte talks about her current projects, and the reward of following your passions with fervor and dedication. 

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Sean Ponist, Owner of The Law Offices of Sean Ponist, has been in Criminal Law and now is a Civil Litigation Attorney. He talks about his experiences and what you should know in the event you need an Attorney.

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Susie Japs, Managing Director at Wejungo and esteemed Provisors member, is in the business of helping business leaders restructure their teams to get better results. She leverages her strategic, authentic, engaging approach and interactive style to challenge business leaders on common beliefs about recruiting, hiring, retention, and performance. We all know that our best assets go home each night and we must pay attention to our employees for the best results. On the people side of things, Susie has great insight into what we may be overlooking when preparing for an exit. 

In her interview, Su...

Barry Moniak is an Organizational Therapist at End In Mind. His topic is Synergistic Culture and he will discuss interdependence. 

Questions Answered: 

1) What does it take to have a synergistic outcome? 

2) What is interdependence?

3) Why do we resist interdependence? 

Contact Info: 

Website: endinmind.com 

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Terry Hawkins, Founder and CEO of People in Progress Global, has been helping businesses build and use powerful systems, as well as shape workplace cultures, for over 25 years. Terry has been listed as one of the top 60 motivational speakers in the world and is also the author of “Why Wait to be Great? It’s Either Now or Too Late.” Originally finding success in Australia, after moving to the US, she found her old ways weren’t working. This led her to essentially restart from the ground up, and she has since come out the other side with a s...

Mahyar Ghassemian, Ghassemian Law Group, APC  discusses common legal problems and protection strategies, as well as tips and ideas for Business Owners.

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Vistage Speaker Julie Anderson of Your Best Mind helps inspire positive changes in her clients by using a scientific approach. After studying psychoneuroimmunology, she created Your Best Mind as a medium to bring this mind-improving information to people of any background. Her work focuses on the science behind the psychology of why we are the way we are. By understanding our brain’s natural tendencies, we can use better practice when communicating. 

Julie discusses the notion that we all have different brain personalities and how this can contribute to misunderstandings in the workplace. She urges bus...

Here's a past highlight from one of our Guests. Find their full interview at www.ExitCoachRadio.com

Lynn: I know most newer CEOs think of marketing as “the tactics”, it’s advertising, public relations,  it’s social media, it’s an email marketing campaign, but for marketing strategy there are three pieces: research, foundation, and then tactics and campaigns. And those marketing tactics are what I just talked about, advertising, PR, et cetera. And they should come last after you’ve done the oth...

John Ferris, CEO of inVision Edge, a management consultancy focused on helping organizations innovate and grow. John has a mission to help leaders and organizations do great things —
whatever their definition of greatness is. He shares tips and ideas and explains the The Playbook Edge System, a do-it-yourself strategic planning framework designed to help businesses spend one day
creating a plan and the rest of the year achieving their goals.

Bruce McCombs, Mentor with SCORE in Orange County, discusses tips and ideas for building your business based on a solid marketing strategy.

Did you know that most business owner relationships suffer from a lack of communication? However, with a proactive approach Business Owners can help preserve and protect their business value by addressing conflicts and lack of communication early. Michel Zelnick, Business Therapist and Founder of The Zelnick Group, offers valuable tips and insights from his many years of helping owners address their differences and "wear the right hats" while attending to business matters.

Ed Eppley, Owner of The Eppley Group, has worked it from all angles, and he shares important information for leaders of all sizes of businesses. He's also got a book out called "Let's Be Clear"

Morrie Shechtman is a Chairman of Fifth Wave Leadership, a company that deals the Human Capital Consulting. Today, he will discuss the topic of ending mediocrity in business. 

Doug Gray, PhD, PCC has always focused on outcome-based leader development.  He has worked with over 10,000 leaders in multiple business sectors, schools and colleges, families and non-profits.  Since 1997, as CEO of Action Learning Associates, www.action-learning.com, his consultancy guarantees results using the globally validated AD-FIT protocol in workshops, assessments and executive coaching.  Doug is also a consultant with the Family Business Consulting Group, a leading business consultancy exclusively devoted to helping family enterprises prosper across generations.  Doug speaks and trains leaders throughout North America.  His most recent book is Objectives + Key Results (OKR) Leadership; How to Apply...

Get a pen and notepad ready for this next interview with Nada Lena, Founder of Rise Up For You. Nada is in the business of personal and professional development, and learned quickly that success is largely dependent on people. She began as a globally touring singer and dancer, eventually becoming an executive, and ultimately starting her company. Being in places where she didn’t speak the native language, she realized how important nonverbal communication is and she now applies her knowledge gained from being a successful performer to the corporate world. 

In her interview, Nada dis...

Chuck Blakeman discusses re-evaluating our business structure to maximize efficiency and decision making. 

Chuck Gallagher is President of the Ethics Resource Group. Today, he will discuss our daily choices, and how every choice has a consequence. 

Ken Sanginario is the Founder of Corporate Value Metrics, LLC and he has developed a cloud-based tool to help business owners increase their business value by 50-100% over the next 3-5 years. Go to his website to find out about the "Value Opportunity Profile".

Chris Dirkers is an Action Coach and Solutions Expert. He shares some excellent ideas and tips for business owners who are thinking about preparing for their business transition and exit.

Click here to read this episode's transcript.

Stuart Friedman, President of PMA Progressive Management Associates, is an expert on improving workplace culture. After effectively helping a Fortune 500 company build a cohesive and strategic business model, he decided to start PMA. He now focuses on helping a number of the 10 million small businesses with 1-99 employees, as this is where he believes improved culture is the most important. Stuart knows firsthand that a company’s culture can make or break their lasting success.

Now more than ever people are c...

Richard Munro of Newport Board Group discusses several obstacles to Growth that he sees in Companies he consults with.

John Bly is a Co-Managing Member of LBA Haynes Strand, LLC. Today, he will be discussing the topic of Mergers & Acquisitions. 

Website: www.lba-cpa.com  Email: johnbly@lbahs.com

Vince Mastrovito of Prometis Partners, Inc. shares valuable information regarding some of the issues family businesses face and their solutions.

Dyanne Ross-Hanson, Founder of Exit Planning Strategies, LLC, works with owners of privately held businesses to develop intentional ownership transition plans. She started Exit Planning Strategies, LLC, 10 years ago and has 30+ years of experience in the financial services industry. This work is Dyanne’s passion, and she considers objective expert consulting, independent of predetermined outcome or product, to be absolutely essential in exit planning. The sale of a business can be the single most significant financial event in someone’s life, the business owner needs to be prepared. 

In her interview, Dyanne reasons that exit plann...

Jamie shares her incredible life journey with us and shares great lessons she has learned along the way.

Dynamic Peak Performance training, consulting and speaking - with a unique integrative approach blending

psychology, body-mind fitness, professional golf and martial arts expertise, and entrepreneurial energy.

Questions answered:

1) Your work is very 'experiential.' What does that look like, and why do you feel that is such an essential

element in your talks and trainings?

...

In this noisy digital world, you can’t break through the noise, you just add to it. Instead, you need to get in on the conversation where your ideal customers are already listening. As a Navy veteran who ran nuclear power plants, and an inbound marketing engineer, Tom Schwab has a refreshingly unique approach. He focuses on time-proven strategy, then supercharges it with today’s technology and podcast interview marketing. An author, speaker, and teacher, Tom helps you get more traffic, leads, and raving customer fans by being interviewed on targeted podcasts.

The author of Podc...

Pat Kramer, Writer - Writer For Hire, shares insights about the ideal times to send out a Press Release for maximum exposure.

Ben Griffin is the Chief Visionary of CEOIQ, a company that provides Executive Coaching, Peer Advisory Group Programs, Strategy and Team Alignment workshops for Entrepreneurs and their Leadership Teams. 

Business Success Factors is a consulting, coaching, and training company that helps companies to increase their sales revenue growth.

Here are a few questions Doug answers in today's interview:

1. What is the number one mistake that you see companies making with their sales that impede or stop their growth?
2. Do you ever see a CEO or executive block their own growth due to having a block in their own mind?
3. What would be the number one thing that someone can do to start working on their revenue growth?

Listeners...

Having advised numerous business owner families, Paul West shares his insight on some key personal mistakes business owners miss out on due to focusing on wrong activities.

Paul received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and earned his MBA from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Paul and his wife, Courtney, have three children, twins Cecilia and Liam, and son, Louie. Paul enjoys golf, traveling, hiking and rooting for the Huskers.

Questions we addressed:

1.  What are the top mistakes you see business owners making today?
2.  How do you help busi...

David Sherak discusses some of the many provisions of a Buy-Sell agreement to consider, especially the impact on your family and Estate Planning and Banking Relationships. 

Chris Bond of Murphy Business Financial Corp. discusses a recent business sale and the common needs of businesses to "survive" the founder to transfer successfully.

Transcript: 

Chris: Surviving the exit of the founder or the operators, that's the biggest key, and every client project I work on is heavily weighted toward good will, so the value is often in the name, the brand, the phone number, the web address, and a lot of what the founder or operator has built. So, it's difficult to transfer that. I've got a deal right now, a s...

Janna Hoiberg discusses tips and ideas for Family businesses. This time, we focus on challenges of preparing the business and family members for leadership transition. 

Adrianna Smith and Lana Hout, Provisors members and Brokers at First Choice Business Brokers, specialize in industry-agnostic business sales for transactions under $25M. After meeting at USC, they found themselves continuously applying for the same finance jobs and eventually working at competing firms. They briefly worked at the same firm and ultimately seized the opportunity to start their own branch of First Choice Business Brokers together 6 years ago. Together, Adrianna and Lana help business owners prepare for sales by driving up their business value.

In their interview, we go in-depth about what to expect before and after...

Brian Kinahan is a business coach who helps CEOs and business owners improve business performance and prepare for an eventual sale or generational transfer. His philosophy: run your business like you're going to sell it, even if you're not. 

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Steve Goodman, CEO and Founder of SHG Planning, has over 30 years of experience in business succession planning. His firm specializes in high-end, sophisticated business succession, estate planning, for high and ultra high net worth individuals. Steve enjoys the uniquely interesting challenge that comes with helping this level of client, both technically and emotionally. Steve’s goal is to make sure nothing is overlooked in your wealth transfer.

In his interview, Steve helps humanize and demystify this daunting process. Many people think...

Scott Bornstein is a Chief Memory Training Expert at MemoryPower. Grab a notebook for this one, memory training is a universally useful skill and everyone can benefit from this information. Scott’s expertise is in making memory and recall as easy as possible for business leaders, managers, and sales people. Not only is it important to learn to remember, but to understand how to make yourself more memorable to people. Marketing is essentially memory training to get customers to remember your message.

Scott shares some useful skill sets you can profit from immediately and discusses his methodology th...

Craig James shares his tips and insights about how CEOs can benefit from getting involved in Peer groups. Contact Craig at craig.james@vistagechair.com

Jim Jubelirer of Jubelirer Results Group works with business owners on scaling up their business. Being around business his whole life, Jim has seen plenty of highs and lows, but he’s always been following how business and people work. Industry agnostic, Jim works with clients globally to increase value while practicing a very holistic approach. Additionally serving as an executive coach in training programs at Duke, he’s helped countless people find small wins that lead to big momentum. 

Jim talks about not just what you need to do to reach your goals, but what you need...

Peter Sieffert is the Owner of Swiss Avenue Partners San Diego, a company focused on helping business owners grow enterprise value in preparation for sale, acquisition, or transition. Today, Peter will discuss why you should know the enterprise value of your business regardless of when you are thinking of an exit.    Questions Discussed:   1) Why should owners know the total enterprise value of their business today, regardless of when they plan to exit?    2) Why should a company increase their total enterprise value today?   3) Who can businesses turn to to initiate the discussion?   Contact Info:    Email Address: peter@swissavenuepartners.com   Website: www.swissavenuepartn...

BizEquity's Valuation as a Service (VaaS)TM system was created to democratize business valuation knowledge for all business owners and the advisors who serve them. Our vision is to value every private business in the world and to make business valuation affordable, accessible, and real-time, thus ushering in the next great cloud based software andBig Data company for Small Business.

Questions Answered: 

1. Why did you start BizEquity?

2. Why is BizEquity important to an advisor? 

3. Where is BizEquity in 10 years? 

Contact Info: 

Website: bizequity.com

Email...

Banish Your 5 Time Demons! How to get 2 hours back in your day, everyday!

How would it feel to have more hours in your day? What if there was a way NOT to get lost in the vortex of your busy life? It is possible to add more time to your day and get more done? Join Leslie Hassler with Your Biz Rules ™ for this powerful, tip-packed class where she will explain how women entrepreneurs can expand time and turn minutes to moments, creating tangible results and predictable success.

Questions Answered:

1) Why do en...

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Back with us once again is Vince Mastrovito, Exit Planner at Prometis Partners. Vince is a serious succession planner: he’s a certified business exit consultant, CBEC, a certified exit planning advisor, CEPA, a certified value builder, CVB, a certified disc plus coach CDVC, and 2019 Member of the Year at the Exit Planner Institute. Vince is very well-versed in this area and brings enthusiasm to finding creative solutions for each of his clients. He’s seen people, for one reason or another, stay in their business far too long...

Peter Mehit is the COO of Custom Business Planning and Solutions. Today, he will discuss the most important times to have a business plan. 

John "Murph" Murphy, founder of JK Murphy Advisors, specializes in helping business owners be prepared for all kinds of circumstances leading up the sale of a business. So what should an owner have prepared to discuss in case a serious buyer calls? Listen in to find out.

Scott Hunter, President of Unshackled Leadership, helps leaders reach a mindset of success and helps improve communication within the workplace. Originally starting as an engineer studying law, eventually Scott was working as an IP lawyer but couldn’t keep a secretary and lost his wife. He knew something had to change, so he became devoted to learning all he possibly could about improving his communication and life skills. In an effort to turn full-time learning into a viable career, he founded his coaching company...

Addison Adams of Adams Corporate Law, LLP discusses considerations for business owners who are planning to borrow, sell or go public.

Kevin Weir, Action Coach, discusses a common problem of many small businesses - lack of processes and systems that make it hard to transition the business.

Transcript: 

Kevin: When you're trying to sell a business, it's a lot harder to sell a business if it isn't a turn-key operation. If somebody wants to walk in and buy a business and all the systems are sitting in the owner's head, that potential buyer is going to place a discount on that business, because most people who are investing in business aren't going to want to...

Chris Kramer, Managing Director, Strategic Equity Group discusses the decisions and strategies that go into an exit plan and the critical importance of preparing well in advance to have the best options.

The KPI Guy is dedicated to bringing actionable KPIs to small and medium business. We turn data to dollars by designing, implementing and optimizing business performance metrics. You can't manage what you don't measure. Website: kpiguy.com  Email: paul@kpiguy.com

Hema Dey, of Iffel International, discusses the mechanics of an effective marketing program.

Transcript: 

Bill: We asked marketing strategist Hema Dey for some key ideas and strategies for business owners to think about when developing their marketing plan.

Hema: Marketing is like a war game, so you really need to understand the landscape of the people that you want to sell to, and who your competitors are. We always produce a functional marketing plan. Another thesis, which is three...

Back with us again is Heath Goldman, President and CEO of ICON Wealth & Legacy Partners. Heath serves as a financial Architect for business owners and real estate partners. He is also a Provisors member and group leader for estate and succession planning. Heath knows the value of a good plan, and is an expert and helping others protect and create their legacy.

In his interview, Heath stresses the importance of communication, collaboration, and coordination between advisors. In order to make the best plan, these different people must be aware of each other’s actions to av...

Gary Melling of Acquired Insights Inc. discusses the evolution of AI and where we are headed next - and how you can keep up with all of it!

Henry Evans is the Managing Partner of Dynamic Results, a Strategy Implementation and Organizational Development firm. According to Harvard University, Dynamic Results' clients implement their strategies at 8 times the rate of most companies.

Questions Discussed:

1) What does it mean when you say your clients implement their strategies at 8x the rate of most companies, according to Harvard?

2) Your Accountability Method, and also, your approach to generating leadership at every level of an organization, have both gotten a lot of press. What, if anything, do the approaches have in common?

3) Your methods hav...

Tom is in the business of compensation design for privately owned companies. He'll describe how he helps business owners construct pay-for-performance strategies that turn employees into growth partners. Compensation (such as salaries, bonuses, commissions) is typically the largest expense on a business's financials. How can this investment be turned into a driver growth? This is the question Tom's firm, The VisionLink Advisory Group, is constantly striving to answer.

Today we tackle these questions:
1. What is the biggest mistake most business owners make relating to paying their employees?
2. What's the first thing a business...

Tawnya Gilreath of LA Business Pros shares valuable tips and ideas for getting your business in shape and getting it sold. Be sure and listen to this full 20-minute interview carefully as there are valuable lessons for business owners regarding managing and communication their expectations, working closely with their Business Sale professionals and making a true effort to get the business ready for sale. 

Leo Klijn, Exit Strategy Planning, Henberger, discusses the importance of understanding your perspective and your Advisors' perspectives when you think of Exit planning.

Roger Winsby, President, AxiomValuation Solutions,  discusses the methods of valuation that can be used and ideas and strategies to help business owners enhance and increase their values.

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Using Common Sense is a sure fire way to prepare your company for the future. Vince Langley uses his expertise to ensure that companies are engaged and that both employees and business owners take ownership of their jobs.    Questions Discussed:   How can a business owner build a culture of independence vs dependence? How can we build a culture of accountability and ownership?   Contact Info:    Email Address: alaskavince@gmail.com Website: vincelangleyresources.com    

Rickard Hansson, Incentive Corp. suggests that, rather than holding their wisdom inside, that if key employees shared their ides and methodologies it could spark creative collaboration that could create new and improved ideas for company growth. Our Exit Coach Network features several other Shows on a variety of topics. Go to www.ExitCoachRadio.com and click on "Exit Coach Network" under the "LISTEN" section.

Transcript: 

Rickard: I want to drain the brain of the co-workers and get no so dependent on key-persons, because you are, and they know that they are the key th...

Joe coaches bright people to turn their "talents into treasures" so they can EXIT their "soul-sucking" job. 

Questions Answered: 

1) Why Are People Afraid to Start A business?
2) Everybody's different! What's "the right" business?
3) What are the fundamentals needed to succeed?

Contact Info: 

Website: http://TalentsIntoTreasures.com 

Email: rapidresults@gmail.com 

Settle in for a fascinating conversation with 2019 Vistage Speaker of the year Dr. Bill Crawford. Bill is a licensed psychologist, author of 4 books, and has created over 3,300 presentations for Sprint, Shell, The American Medical Association, and many more esteemed organizations. While we are over-saturated with information, Bill realized early on that we are not necessarily sure of what to do with it. After taking a class on the biological basis of behavior, Bill came up with a tried and true system for taking advantage of the way our brains work in order to think at a higher level.

Rick MacBarron shares some financial planning tips from his many years of experience. Find his full interviews by searching in our index.

Martin Staubus is a Consultant for the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management. The Beyster Institute is a nationally recognized center of expertise in employee stock plans. Mark focuses on: 1) structuring ESOPs so business owners can liquidate equity on highly tax-favored, flexible terms; and 2) creating equity participation programs that use stock options, restricted stock, or other forms of equity compensation to attract and motivate employees.

Maybe you think you know a lot about how you will sell your business. Chad Peterson of Peterson Acquisitions has sold many many businesses and shares his expertise.

Website:

https://petersonacquisitions.com/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/petersonacquisitions/

Recent Award:

https://bloggerlocal.com/national/reviews/best-business-brokers-sell-your-company

How to Sell Your Company (Free eBook offer)

https://petersonacquisitions.com/get-the-book/

Randy Noe is an experienced Leadership Coach who has recently authored "Leading Well: The Essence of Wholehearted Inspirational Leaders". He shares tips and thoughts for you to become a better leader

Mike Leannah’s background includes over 20 years in a C-Suite executive position in various industries domestically, along with 4 years of international experience with a Fortune 100 company.

As an entrepreneur, Mike organically grew his company from $2.7M to $22M in a four- year period, realizing EBITDA growth from $400K to $3.1M.
Mike joined Cornerstone with the goal of helping business owner clients plan for the single, most critically important financial event of their lives - the transition out of their business. Mike, as a member of the BEI Network of Exit Planning Professionals has earned th...

Sean Brawley is a world renowned expert on sustainable high performance and the Inner Game. His clients include Super Bowl Champion Coach Pete Carroll and Senior leaders of GE, ITT, and Union Bank.

Today, Sean speaks to us about the basic premise of the Inner Game, about his work with Pete Carroll, and how his coaching can help CEOs.

Contact Sean for a free 30 Minute consultation to explore how coaching can help you accomplish your personal and professional goals.

                                      Jasmine Sandler is a global digital marketing and sales consultant and trainer in the areas of Online Branding, SEO and B2B Social Media. She has been the CEO of a Digital Agency since 2006, and has a niche service that she provides for CEOs and small business owners called Personal Branding Online. Jasmine recently published her 3rd book called "How to Brand Yourself Online Like A CEO" with a related Social Branding Course for business owners.  Website: www.jasminesandler.com      

Fred Berns is the President of Business by Design, and provides coaching and speaking programs, and marketing and copywriting campaigns designed to help business owners stand way out from their competitors, and master their marketplace.

Dr. Jerry V. Teplitz is in the business of Optimizing Brain Performance and he is going to talk about How toIncrease Your Brain's Leadership Performance to New Levels of Excellence. 

Questions Answered: 

1) What is brain performance?
2) How can you increase it?
3) Do you have any research validating your approach?

Contact Info: 

Website: www.Teplitz.com

Email: Jerry@Teplitz.com

Tess Cox, Principal of Tess Cox and Associates, has a myriad of skills, but ultimately aims to assist others in personal and professional transformational change. She believes that choice, not chance, determines your destiny. Feedback is crucial to self-awareness, and self-awareness allows us to grow more effectively. Coaching is essential to maximizing our potential. 

In her interview, Tess not only shares the 5 C’s of leadership, but also redefines the term leader. She stresses the importance of work-life congruency and aligning both to fit our personalities. Above all, Tess discusses the need to have a well-defined personal phi...

Alex Freytag is in the business of helping business owners get what they want out of their business. 

Jane Johnson discusses why 5 years is optimal to plan your successful exit. She is the co-founder of the Business Transition Academy

Christine Miles is the founder and chief architect of CI Squared. CI Squared is a Leadership Development and Sales Training Company. We believe people and organizations have untapped potential, and we empower organizations and people to reach their potential through our proprietary communication framework called "The Art of the Nudge." People and organizations must continuously improve and innovate business processes and key activities. Our framework is designed to work within an organization’s current system, nudging them t...

In this 20+ minute highlight, Hans Sperling, Founder of Sperling Law Corporation discusses numerous strategies and ideas for your planning as you prepare for your Business Sale in the future, including the importance of your own pre-emptive "legal audit" to find and fix problem areas before your Buyer does, several tips on how to avoid "deal killers", and why your attorney should be your best friend when you are preparing to sell. Forward this to anyone who is saying they want to "sell someday soon"!

Joe Bertotto of CU Services, LLC, is a consultant who helps develop high care, high performance, and high accountability cultures in the workplace. Joe’s work in this field began 25 years ago and his expertise is in leadership and culture development. His goal is to help leaders create a work environment where employees feel they get to come to work, instead of feeling they have to come to work. While everyone has their own unique strengths, we all can be exceptionally bad at identifying what they are. 

Joe shares valuable insight on metrics for measuring strengths and wea...

Gunnar Gundersen is in the business of intellectual-property protection, consulting, and litigation, and is going to talk
about how to manage intellectual property to maximize your business's value.

Questions Discussed: 

1. What is intellectual property?
2. How can intellectual property create value for my company?
3. Do I have intellectual property? And why should I care about managing it?

Smart Advantage is the only marketing and management consultancy focused exclusively on identifying and communicating the most important element of successful competition – your competitive advantage – from your target market’s perspective. Today, we will be discussing the importance of differentiating yourself from your competition.

Questions Asked: 

1. What prompted you to write your book, Creating Competitive Advantage?

2. What does Smart Advantage do and who are your ideal clients?

3. What results do your clients see after an engagement with Smart Advantage? 

Contact Info: 

Website: www.smartadvantage.com and www.jayniesm...

George Smart of Strategic Development, Inc. discusses family business issues

Questions discussed:

a. You'd think that passing a business to a son or daughter would be easy. After all, there's no interview. But

it's not that easy, is it?

b. Why do family CEO's find succession so difficult?

c. What's the first step to make this easier, to clear away some of the very strong emotions people have about

their children, and vice versa?

Contact info:

Email Address gsmart@strategicdevelopment.com

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Daniel Sachs has an interesting background and a new book, The Million Dollar Greeting - that you will enjoy hearing about.

Michael Shea is the President of AdviCoach, a company focused on helping privately held businesses improve their business performance.

Dolores is the founder of Masters in Clarity, a full-service digital agency that believes being a Favorite brand is more valuable than just being a Famous one. They craft beautifully useful, connected ecosystems that grow businesses and build enduring relationships between brands and humans.

We discuss how Dolores and her team guide their clients to:

• Communicate their message in an engaging way… they call it the TED way

• Design a growth strategy that is aligned with WHO they are as entrepreneurs, what flows naturally… this is where their coaching skills come in