Thinking about a long-term exit?
Preserve your options.
Succession Planning
“Only twenty- to thirty-percent of businesses that make it to market will sell.”
- CHRISTOPHER M. SNIDER, Walking to Destiny
Your buddy at the country club just sold his business, and it’s got you thinking: what do the next three to ten years look like for my business, and will there be an exit?
The runway from creating a value business to harvesting value for a next act begins well before you reach the negotiation table. The most successful transitions happen with a three- to twelve-year plan that blends personal goals with professional legacy.
A good exit strategy is a really good business strategy, so plan early.
The sooner you start, the greater your chances of achieving personal economic gain and ensuring long-term vitality for the company.
How we help
As success architects, we work with founders and company leaders to (1) identify their baseline wealth metrics and long-term vision; (2) develop a plan shape ambiguity into possibility, and then (3) build a framework, accountability mechanisms, and team of players to bring their vision to life.
Liberated Leaders is North Carolina's Fractional COO firm with multiple Certified Exit Planning Advisors (CEPAs) - specializing exclusively in maximizing business value.
Ways to get started:
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Fit Study
Market Reality Check
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Value Acceleration Blueprint
Design your company’s path to peak value: From theoretical planning to operational independence
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Value Builder Circle
Transform From Trapped Operator to Value-Creating Owner
Who we are and how we work
Companies don’t grow, let alone scale, without the top decision-maker handing off some of the ball-juggling to other, precisely chosen leaders and infusing some of the special sauce that has made the company successful.
As a team, we bring expertise from our work with companies like Accenture, Amazon, Apple, Fitbit, Getaround Oracle, and Walmart — and other companies too small for you to know their names — to scale the structures and complexities of people from diverse backgrounds and experiences essential to achieving a unified outcome.
Our Framework
Our process is straightforward but powerful.
SURVEY
Understand desired outcomes
Understand current state
Top notch assessment tools
DESIGN
Create the future design
Collaborate with you and your team to create the blueprints and put the scaffolding in place
BUILD
Collaborate during process of building
Reference the future design to ensure the building activities are creating the desired outcomes
Trust is earned
The Liberated Leaders team earns its way into your circle of trust and demonstrates value through three phases of engagement: Survey, Design, and Build. Engagements typically evolve from project-based to retainer-based, delivered in 90-day sprints.
Endorsements
Build a bigger vision without giving up the special sauce that made your company successful in the first place.
As micro-fractionals, we do it WITH you. Strategic guidance, collaborative problem-solving, and advisory support as you execute.
As fractional COOs, we do it WITH you AND FOR you. Embedded leadership combining strategic direction with hands-on execution and delivery.
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