Transition & Exit Options Analysis

As an advisor, are you truly versed in the exit options on the table? Do you know how to recognize an ideal candidate for a specific exit option? Or do you want to build on your knowledge and strengthen this skill? In the next deep dive webinar, Transition & Exit Options Analysis, instructor Sean Hutchinson, will share with you how to begin to position yourself at the trusted advisor by sharing this thought process with your business owner…position yourself for multiple exits.

This session provides an overview of the inside and outside exit options while illustrating a viable model for coaching a business owner through the process of identifying the exit option that is right for them, based on their personal, financial, and business needs. It will focus on more than just a sale, but also give equal time to succession plans and how to increase value, decrease taxation and create a plan for life after the business transition.

The instructor, Sean Hutchinson is the CEO and a Partner at SVA Value Accelerators. A national consulting firm that allows lower middle market business owners a pathway to higher valuation. His firm helps business owners build transition ready businesses by building value today. Inside of the EPI Community Sean is one of the leading CEPAs. Sean is a member of the CEPA Faculty and was awarded the Exit Planner of the Year Award through the Excellence in Exit Planning Awards. Through his leadership Sean has developed a unique concept of giving business owners multiple exit options along their transition pathway. Changing the thought process that exit is only one bite of the apple.

Join the Broadcast: Thursday, November 1 at 1PM

This session provides an overview of the inside and outside exit options while illustrating a viable model for coaching a business owner through the process of identifying the exit option that is right for them, based on their personal, financial, and business needs. It will focus on more than just a sale, but also give equal time to succession plans and how to increase value, decrease taxation and create a plan for life after the business transition.

Learning objectives:

• List the various exit options for middle market business owners
• Contrast the pros and cons for specific exit options
• Identify the steps involved in an ESOP
• Recognize ideal candidates for specific exit options

Presented by industry expert:

SEAN HUTCHINSON: Sean Hutchinson is Chief Executive Officer of SVA Value Accelerators.  SVA provides expertise in value acceleration, ownership transition planning and management succession, mergers and acquisitions, and capital raises.  SVA’s hallmark is its unique Exponential Value Creation (XVC™) program.

He has advised privately-held companies throughout the U.S. on ownership transitions, competitive strategy, growth, valuation and value creation, restructuring, recapitalization, mergers and acquisitions, and governance.

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Join the broadcast on Thursday, November 1 from 12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. ET.  Experience EPI’s brand promise: to deliver advisors like you the best content in the exit planning industry, ongoing practice support, and a platform for connection to educated owners.

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“This Methodology is Going to Supercharge My Practice!” -Justin Goodbread, CEPA, CFP®

Official ‘Exit Planning’ Definition: Exit planning combines the plan, concept, effort, and process into a clear, simple strategy to build a business that is transferable through strong human, structural, customer, and social capital. The future of the business owner, his/her family, and the business itself are addressed by exit planning through creating value today.

Exit planning is not just a plan (or a keyed-in report to print out for an owner). It is a strategy rooted in execution that grows value while expanding options so that an owner can transition the business on his/her terms when they are ready. It aligns the business, personal, and financial needs of the owner. Good exit planning utilizes the Value Acceleration Methodology™ to move clients through discovery, prepare, and decide gates. Certified Exit Planning Advisors (CEPA) educate the owner on all of the exit options and enters an engagement with an exit-option-agnostic perspective as to truly serve the business owner’s diverse needs. CEPAs collaborate with a seasoned, multi-disciplinary team of professionals to support the success of the business owner and use each other’s specialties and expertise to the benefit of the project. [view the award-winning methodology]

“Why did I earn CEPA when I already had an exit planning designation? Simple, the network. The quality of the EPI advisor network is unmatched.” -Paul Meyer, CEPA, CBEC

Do you consider your COIs or your referral network as the #1 source for new business? Look no further for your next membership affiliation. Formed in 2005 to serve educational and resource needs of financial planners and wealth managers, CPA/accountants, attorneys, commercial lenders, M&A advisors and business brokers, management consultants and other business advisors, the Exit Planning Institute is considered the standard trendsetter in the field of exit planning across the globe. It is the only organization that offers the Certified Exit Planning Advisor Program (CEPA) and qualifies for continuing education credits with twelve major professional associations, making it the most widely accepted and endorsed professional exit planning program in the world. [find a CEPA in your area]

“As a CPA, nothing is more important than exit planning.” -Bill Kenedy, CPA/ABV, CFF, CEPA

Our founders paved the way for the organization we are today. In the past three years alone, EPI has grown by more than ten times. We support and enable thousands of professional advisors who are leading the way in their local marketplaces across the globe. We invite you to join the community and experience the EPI difference.

We are powered by a dedicated staff, industry experts, and market leaders, that are passionate about providing top professional advisors the best industry content, ongoing practice support, and owner education resources. From humble beginnings, EPI has grown to become the exit planning market leader while staying focused and true to our mission. We are an education company that certifies and supports more than 900 CEPAs (and counting) as well as thousands of advisors worldwide through national, regional, chapter, and virtual education. Explore our history and make plans to play a part in our future. [explore the EPI history timeline snapshot]

“You want to have the best credential in the industry. So my advice is that you have to go with Exit Planning Institute.” -Vincent Mastrovito, CEPA, CBEC

Do you want help in an increasingly commoditized or oversaturated marketplace? Do you want just another designation for your business card or do you want the credentialing education that helps you adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing industry? You’ve come to the right place.

The Exit Planning Institute creates an exit planning “ecosystem,” and due to the diverse nature of exit planning, EPI has fostered a hyper-engaged exit planning community. This community includes CEPAs, other collaborative advisors, strategic alliance partners, academicians, the media, and business owners from across the globe made up of 15 countries, 44 U.S. States and representing over a dozen different professional disciplines. To serve this elite and cross-functional community on one major platform, EPI produces the best content as it relates to exit planning, succession planning, and value acceleration, provides ongoing advisor support and practice development, and creates connectivity to transitioning business owners. [connect with us today]

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The Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) Program is the most widely endorsed and accepted exit planning designation in the marketplace today. Experience the EPI difference and determine if earning the CEPA designation is the next strategic move for you to reinvent yourself in a changing marketplace. Visit www.EarnCEPA.com today.