For Greater Philadelphia Founders, Owners, Presidents and CEOs
of privately owned companies who understand the power play
of increasing business value instead of chasing vanity revenue
You’ve invested years, perhaps decades, building your business.
But is it as valuable as you think? Have you maximized its value potential? Are you certain? HOW do you do it? What do PE, M&A & VC firms know that you don’t?
The real question is whether that value is transferable, protected and able to put you in the driver’s seat — giving you strategic flexibility and control over future options.
Are you in the driver’s seat? Take the Gap Assessment
A high-revenue or even profitable company is not automatically attractive to the right buyer or even valuable. It’s not automatically prepared for succession. It’s not automatically able to run without the owner at the center of decisions, relationships and momentum.
Intentionally implementing a value-building process helps you build a business that gives you options:
This work needs to begin before you want or need an exit plan (life throws curveballs 50% of the time). In many companies 3–5 years of disciplined value building are needed to create the foundation required to maximize value potential.
As Chris Snider writes in Walking to Destiny:
“Exit planning is good business strategy.”
This is a private, curated and professionally facilitated CEO cohort focused on building transferable business value and preparing you, your company and your family for future options.
It is not a generic CEO peer group.
It is not a one-size-fits all “sell your business” program.
It is not a networking group.
It is a working cohort for CEOs who want to strengthen their business, reduce risk, increase owner freedom and build a company that is more valuable, attractive & transferable.
Each monthly meeting will include a facilitated CEO discussion and a brief perspective from guest professionals in relevant value-building disciplines.
The cohort will focus on opportunities that most directly affect transferable enterprise value and owner readiness. We’ll get into ALL of it - - strategic, tactical & emotional (yep, we’re goin’ there, too) including but certainly not limited to:
Take the Gap AssessmentThe goal is to build a Company of Significance — one that is valuable, transferable, attractive and ready at all times while the owner’s business, financial and personal goals are simultaneously aligned.