For owners of privately held businesses

What if you wanted to leave tomorrow?

Most owners think they're more prepared than they are. Ready Owners helps you see where you really stand, close the gaps that matter, and create real options for what comes next, on your terms and your timeline.

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Free · 10 minutes · Confidential

58
Example score
Building
Personal72%
Financial61%
Business41%

Your report shows your score, where the gaps are, and the three moves that would make the biggest difference.

The questions owners avoid

Every owner has a few "what ifs."

They're easy to put off until one of them stops being hypothetical.

You needed to step away tomorrow?

Health, family or opportunity rarely waits for a good time. Would the business keep running without you?

Your business isn't worth what you think?

Most owners have never had it valued. The number a buyer or successor sees is often very different.

Your people aren't ready?

If every key decision runs through you, there's no one ready to take the wheel, and that limits every option.

You built something great but can never leave it?

Success that depends entirely on you can feel less like freedom and more like a job you can't quit.

Sound familiar?

What owners fear, and what they really want

What keeps owners up at night

  • Being forced out before they're ready, by health or the unexpected
  • Finding out the business is worth less than they expected
  • Leaving what they built in the wrong hands
  • Never being able to step away at all

What owners really want

  • Control over when and how they step back
  • Peace of mind about their finances and their people
  • The freedom to choose, instead of having the choice made for them
  • The most success they can have, however they define it
The readiness gap
"I thought I was better prepared than this."

It's the most common thing owners say when they see their results. The gap between where you are and where you want to be can cost real value and limit your future. The good news: once you can see it, you can close it.

Personal

Are you ready?

Your vision for life after the business, your role, and how ready you are for the change.

Financial

Is your money ready?

What you need from the business, what it's worth today, and the gap between the two.

Business

Is your business ready?

How much depends on you, the strength of your team, and what drives the value.

How it works

From "what if" to a plan

A simple path, with no pressure and no obligation.

1

Learn

Join a Ready Owners seminar and hear what drives value and readiness, and how other owners have planned their next chapter.

2

Score

Take the 10-minute Ready Owners Score and get a personal report on your personal, financial and business readiness.

3

Talk

Walk through your results with us in a confidential conversation and understand what the gaps mean for you.

4

Act

Close the gaps that matter most, with the right advisor for each one, and build the options you want.

Start with your score · 10 min
The goal: create options

Being ready means you get to choose

Readiness isn't about selling. It's about having good options, whichever one you pick, and whenever you pick it.

Keep and grow

Build a stronger, more valuable business that runs without you, so owning it becomes a choice, not a job.

Pass it on

Prepare family, your management team or your employees to take over, with the leaders and structure to succeed.

Sell when it's right

Know what your business is worth, what buyers look for, and how to get the best outcome when the time comes.

Who we are

Advisors for the people, the money and the value

Ready Owners brings together advisors who each cover a different side of readiness, so you get the right help for each gap.

Tiffany Calvert

Tiffany Calvert

People & leadership

A former corporate executive in manufacturing, brand, logistics and health, Tiffany works with owners and leadership teams on the people side of the business: succession planning, leadership readiness, and navigating change and transitions.

Succession planningLeadership readinessChange & transitions
Onward & Upward Growth ConsultingLinkedIn
Dan Bernstein

Dan Bernstein

Value & transactions

Dan is a CEPA- and CM&AA-credentialed M&A advisor who helps owners understand what their business is worth, what drives that value and how to protect it through any transition. He has advised on 35+ engagements and closed 11 transactions.

CEPACM&AAValuation & value gapTransactions
danbernstein.co
Ready Owners seminar

An hour that could change how you plan the next ten years

A practical, no-sales-pitch session for owners who want to be ready, whether that's in two years or twenty.

  • The "what ifs" every owner should answer now
  • What really drives the value of your business
  • Getting your people ready to lead without you
  • Your options: keep, pass on or sell, and how to keep all three open

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Find out how ready you really are

Ten minutes. Three parts of readiness. One clear picture of where you stand and what to do next.

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