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In this special episode of the Exit Is Now podcast, Sean Hutchinson, flips the script by interviewing Scott Snider. Together, they talk about Scott's first ever Summit back when it was called the International Exit Planning Institute Conference. They also dive into EPI Culture and why the Exit Planning Institute changed during the pandemic.Want to learn more? Go to: https://linktr.ee/theexitplanninginstituteConnect with Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-snider-epi/============================================SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exit-is-now-plan-accordingly-with-scott-snider/id1663050204Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0iXzdvQN1ApWPOk3rVytFR============================================CONNECT WITH SCOTT ON SOCIAL MEDIA   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Eh7TfhJHKRa5uc5R0uRgAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Exit-Planning-Institute-608403729259835Website: https://exit-planning-institute.org#ExitPlanningInstitute #ScottSnider #Podcast============================================About Scott:Scott Snider is the President of the Exit Planning Institute (EPI) and the Operating Partner of Snider Premier Growth, a small family investment company.  At EPI, Scott is responsible for the strategic direction of the organization along with overseeing the company's operations and chapter development. Since joining EPI, Scott has expanded the organization regionally, nationally, and globally, providing a transformational educational experience to advisors from all specialties across the globe.Scott Snider is a nationally recognized industry leader, growth specialist, and lifetime entrepreneur.  Two of Snider's biggest talents: market penetration and rapid growth strategies. As the operational and strategic leader of EPI, Snider thrives on helping advisors learn how to educate clients, achieve market distinction, and deliver real results.

Overview of the 7th Annual Owner's Forum: "Go or Grow!"We had the pleasure of hosting Todd Krough in the studio today. Todd is a wealth manager for MN Bank and Trust, and is also the incoming President for the Twin Cities Metro Area Chapter of the Exit Planning Institute. We discussed highlights of previous Owner's Forum events and what to expect from our upcoming event on October 3, 2024 at Midland Hills Country Club, 2-6 pm.We recalled our first Owner's Forum in 2016, which was held at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Center. We had 150 attendees and collaborated with several firms who led various breakout sessions. For our first annual event, it was very well attended and received, so we decided to host another (and several more since)!It's been a popular event for business owners and advisors alike, and Todd believes it's because we deliver relevant, timely content in a non-threatening, "No-Sell Zone" for business owners. We're all there to learn first and network second. (The food and drinks are pretty good too, though!)We recalled a couple of memorable stories shared by panelists from previous Owners Forums. Their not-so-good exit outcomes and what life was like after the sale are etched in my mind. As they say, you could've heard a pin drop. This is the kind of learning we offer at every Owner's Forum event, with a chance to ask questions and get answers from the experts.We're bringing back Sean Hutchinson from Ready For Next to lead us in another interactive Case Study. The feedback from Sean's presentation last year was so positive that we had to ask him to join us again. Sean will share critical information about the company, and it's up to the people at the tables to figure out the best path for a successful exit.We also have Chris Jones, President of True North M&A and Sunbelt Business Advisors, as our fearless Keynote Speaker. Chris will discuss what owners should be doing right now to get ready for a future exit. Chris is always entertaining, informative, and engaging. He's back on stage for a good reason; he knows the market and what business owners need to do to prepare for what Buyers want in today's economy.With these two powerhouses of knowledge, we've given owners compelling reasons to attend! It's going to be our best event ever; don't miss it!Listen to more about the event! [link]Get registered for the Owner's Forum! [link]Support the Show.Join the Twin Cities Chapter of EPI at the 2024 Owners Forum! Learn More and Register here

Scott is joined in the Exit is Now Studio by Matt DiFrancesco, from HighLift Financial, with a conversation surrounding finding your niche in the marketplace. Want to learn more? Go to: https://linktr.ee/theexitplanninginstituteConnect with Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-snider-epi/============================================SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exit-is-now-plan-accordingly-with-scott-snider/id1663050204Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0iXzdvQN1ApWPOk3rVytFR============================================CONNECT WITH SCOTT ON SOCIAL MEDIA   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Eh7TfhJHKRa5uc5R0uRgAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Exit-Planning-Institute-608403729259835Website: https://exit-planning-institute.org#ExitPlanningInstitute #ScottSnider #Podcast============================================About Scott:Scott Snider is the President of the Exit Planning Institute (EPI) and the Operating Partner of Snider Premier Growth, a small family investment company.  At EPI, Scott is responsible for the strategic direction of the organization along with overseeing the company's operations and chapter development. Since joining EPI, Scott has expanded the organization regionally, nationally, and globally, providing a transformational educational experience to advisors from all specialties across the globe.Scott Snider is a nationally recognized industry leader, growth specialist, and lifetime entrepreneur.  Two of Snider's biggest talents: market penetration and rapid growth strategies. As the operational and strategic leader of EPI, Snider thrives on helping advisors learn how to educate clients, achieve market distinction, and deliver real results.

Scott is joined in the Exit is Now studio by EPI's Manager, Strategic Relationships - Josh Koza - for our newest Flip the Script episode. In this episode, Scott takes the hot seat as we dive into bucket lists, how EPI's hiring process has changed over the years, and more!Want to learn more? Go to: https://linktr.ee/theexitplanninginstituteConnect with Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-snider-epi/============================================SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exit-is-now-plan-accordingly-with-scott-snider/id1663050204Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0iXzdvQN1ApWPOk3rVytFR============================================CONNECT WITH SCOTT ON SOCIAL MEDIA   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Eh7TfhJHKRa5uc5R0uRgAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Exit-Planning-Institute-608403729259835Website: https://exit-planning-institute.org#ExitPlanningInstitute #ScottSnider #Podcast============================================About Scott:Scott Snider is the President of the Exit Planning Institute (EPI) and the Operating Partner of Snider Premier Growth, a small family investment company.  At EPI, Scott is responsible for the strategic direction of the organization along with overseeing the company's operations and chapter development. Since joining EPI, Scott has expanded the organization regionally, nationally, and globally, providing a transformational educational experience to advisors from all specialties across the globe.Scott Snider is a nationally recognized industry leader, growth specialist, and lifetime entrepreneur.  Two of Snider's biggest talents: market penetration and rapid growth strategies. As the operational and strategic leader of EPI, Snider thrives on helping advisors learn how to educate clients, achieve market distinction, and deliver real results.

Janik Setz is an artist venturing into a solo career after his time in a band. Influenced by Bleachers, The Kooks, and Harry Styles, Janik combines vivid songwriting with carefully crafted melodies featuring hooks that will leave you singing non-stop. He is preparing his debut EP, titled Where The Walls Ain't Blue, with the lead single, "Season Ticket," set for release on July 3rd. After a successful crowdfunding campaign to support the EP, he collaborated with Sean Hutchinson, renowned for his work with Bleachers, Taylor Swift, and Lana Del Rey. In today's episode, we discuss Janik's move to London to seek a more fulfilling future, the creative process behind his EP, the advantages of crowdfunding, and how he overcomes self-doubt. Follow Janik: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janiksetz/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@janiksetz Pre-save "Season Ticket": https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jan... Follow Tempo & Melody Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tempoandmel... TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tempoandmelod... Please like, comment, and subscribe to the Youtube Channel! Follow Jesse: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_jessemicha... TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thejessemichael Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/022Og...

Join us for an exclusive episode of the Exit is Now podcast, broadcasting from the highly anticipated Exit Planning Summit. Delve into insightful discussions with attendees, speakers, and partners. Don't miss this unique opportunity to gain unparalleled knowledge and expertise in the world of exit planning.Want to learn more? Go to: https://linktr.ee/theexitplanninginstituteConnect with Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-snider-epi/============================================SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exit-is-now-plan-accordingly-with-scott-snider/id1663050204Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0iXzdvQN1ApWPOk3rVytFR============================================CONNECT WITH SCOTT ON SOCIAL MEDIA   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Eh7TfhJHKRa5uc5R0uRgAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Exit-Planning-Institute-608403729259835Website: https://exit-planning-institute.org#ExitPlanningInstitute #ScottSnider #Podcast============================================About Scott:Scott Snider is the President of the Exit Planning Institute (EPI) and the Operating Partner of Snider Premier Growth, a small family investment company.  At EPI, Scott is responsible for the strategic direction of the organization along with overseeing the company's operations and chapter development. Since joining EPI, Scott has expanded the organization regionally, nationally, and globally, providing a transformational educational experience to advisors from all specialties across the globe.Scott Snider is a nationally recognized industry leader, growth specialist, and lifetime entrepreneur.  Two of Snider's biggest talents: market penetration and rapid growth strategies. As the operational and strategic leader of EPI, Snider thrives on helping advisors learn how to educate clients, achieve market distinction, and deliver real results.

Join us for an exclusive episode of the Exit is Now podcast, broadcasting from the highly anticipated Exit Planning Summit. Delve into insightful discussions with attendees, speakers, and partners. Don't miss this unique opportunity to gain unparalleled knowledge and expertise in the world of exit planning.Want to learn more? Go to: https://linktr.ee/theexitplanninginstituteConnect with Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-snider-epi/

In this must-listen episode, Scott Snider is joined by Scott Mashuda and Todd Torquato to delve into the fascinating journey of forming REAG. Explore their insights on the current M&A market landscape and gain valuable understanding of how they support Certified Exit Planning Advisors (CEPAs). Tune in for a riveting discussion packed with invaluable knowledge and actionable strategies for navigating the complexities of exit planning.

I'm IN!  Two Upcoming Events for Business Owners and Advisors! We were joined today by Michael Hubsmith, Senior M&A Advisor with True North M&A to cover the highlights of two must-go events for owners and advisors. The first event on Sept 13 is the True North M&A Summit, to be held at the Minneapolis Event Center, beginning at noon and ending with Happy Hour at 5:30pm. The Opening speaker is none other than Super Bowl Champion, Ben Utecht who will speak on "The Champion Creed: Build Your Culture of Belief."  This will be followed by the Keynote Speaker, Russell T. Price, Chief Economist with Ameriprise and deemed by Bloomberg to be one of the country's most accurate economists. Brian Slipka, CEO of True North will then take the stage for a short talk on how to "Maximize Your Life's Work". The remainder of the afternoon will feature several breakout sessions for attendees to choose from, wrapped up with a Shark Tank format of Private Equity experts who will weigh in on the viability of a Case Study they've been presented. A Social Hour will follow for open networking. Register for this Free Event here: https://www.tnma.com/m-and-a-summit/The Twin Cities Metro Area Chapter of the Exit Planning Institute  is hosting its 5th Annual Owner's Forum on October 5 at Midland Hills Country Club in St Paul MN, from 2-6 pm! If you have attended an EPI Owner's Forum in the past, this one will be as high quality as we've ever had for content. First, the results of the most recent State of Owner Readiness Survey will be revealed. Compared to the 2017 project of the same survey, the results are quite telling, and in a positive way!  Scott Snider, President of EPI Global will be here to present and discuss the results and compare the MN market with other areas of the country. Come and learn how our MN market stacks up and what work we still have left to do.  Keynote Speaker, Sean Hutchinson, who will present on the work of the Value Growth Advisor whose job it is to help business owners increase business value from "where it is" to "where it needs to be"  based on the owner's personal financial goals and next stage of life. Sean will be using a combination of presentation and interactive case study to discuss how owners can put their best foot forward and learn how a buyer would view their business with and without improvements. Sean is one of the foremost Value Growth Advisors in the country!  Registration Here!Thank you to our show sponsors! Dayta, JAK, Sunbelt Business Advisors andAre you ready for your best exit? There is no time like the present to prepare. Check out these resources offered by KeyeStrategies: Business Readiness Transition online course Free Ebook download here Purchase Poised for Exit book here

This week, Scott is joined by Sean Hutchinson of Ready For Next Advisory Group, and Justin Goodbread, President of WealthSource, to discuss the future of exit planning, where we have come from, and where we are going. Justin and Sean share examples from their own lives and careers of how we can best serve our clients for whatever is to come in the future.Connect with Sean: https://readyfornextadvisorygroup.com/sean-hutchinsonConnect with Justin: https://www.wealthsource.com/our-team/justin-goodbread-president-wealthsource/Want to learn more? Go to: https://linktr.ee/theexitplanninginstituteConnect with Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-snider-epi/============================================SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exit-is-now-plan-accordingly-with-scott-snider/id1663050204Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0iXzdvQN1ApWPOk3rVytFR============================================CONNECT WITH SCOTT ON SOCIAL MEDIA   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Eh7TfhJHKRa5uc5R0uRgAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Exit-Planning-Institute-608403729259835Website: https://exit-planning-institute.org#ExitPlanningInstitute #ScottSnider #Podcast============================================About Scott:Scott Snider is the President of the Exit Planning Institute (EPI) and the Operating Partner of Snider Premier Growth, a small family investment company.  At EPI, Scott is responsible for the strategic direction of the organization along with overseeing the company's operations and chapter development. Since joining EPI, Scott has expanded the organization regionally, nationally, and globally, providing a transformational educational experience to advisors from all specialties across the globe.Scott Snider is a nationally recognized industry leader, growth specialist, and lifetime entrepreneur.  Two of Snider's biggest talents: market penetration and rapid growth strategies. As the operational and strategic leader of EPI, Snider thrives on helping advisors learn how to educate clients, achieve market distinction, and deliver real results.

In this special 4th of July episode, we're paying a visit to Amity Island, AKA the perfect feeding ground! Join us as we talk Mayor Ted Reagan, bad seaman accents, bunny knots, clenched butts, Michael Douglas, mooore corporate greed, and Bruce the Musical.  Send us your Ghost Story/Bump in the Night, or just say hi: thecreepoverpodcast@gmail.com Send us snail mail: The Creepover Podcast, 1292 High St # 1035, Eugene, OR 97401 Join the Blanket Fort (Patreon): https://www.patreon.com/thecreepoverpodcast Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecreepoverpodcast/ Visit our website: https://thecreepover.com/ Artwork by Blake Anderson Theme Music by Luca Francini Sources: Wikipedia entry on Jaws (film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film) IMDB entry on Jaws (1975) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 “25 Incisive Facts About Jaws” by Sean Hutchinson via Mental Floss https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/64548/25-incisive-facts-about-jaws “21 random facts about ‘Jaws'” by Brandon Griggs via CNN https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/entertainment/jaws-movie-40th-anniversary-feat/index.html

Our guest today is Sean Hutchinson, Partner in the Ready for Next Advisory Group. Sean is a true thought leader in Business Value Acceleration and Transition-Readiness – Dedicated to Successful Transition Outcomes for Business Owners. Sean oversees a unique value accelerator program that includes in-depth discovery, seven “value domains” and decision support and their programs help owners act today to create options for tomorrow – making them Ready for Next. Sean is genuinely invested in his clients' success, working to give them the outcomes they desire and deserve.

Our guest for this #PoisedforExit episode is Sean Hutchinson, partner of Ready For Next, a family of companies that caters to successful business transition. Ready For Next Academy provides education and peer groups for advisors and owners to learn how to enhance enterprise value and a process to prepare for a future exit. Ready For Next Advisors provides individual consulting and group advisory services to business owners with a focus on growth and value enhancement.Ready For Next Cities serves smaller communities at risk of losing their economic health and vitality due to owners not exiting well. It provides special education and advisory for communities and their business owners who may not have access to it otherwise. Sean's extensive business ownership and leadership background have certainly set him up to do the important work that Ready For Next engages in. Helping hundreds of owners at a time vs one at a time will impact more owners sooner, securing a brighter future for all stakeholders of privately held business. There are three motivators that drive each client engagement at RFN, and they are Clarity, Liquidity, and Legacy. Finding clarity comes first before all else, and working with an advisor to find it is essential. Liquidity and Legacy vary in importance from owner to owner. Once they've been prioritized an owner and their advisors can begin down a productive path to a successful transition. Download the episode here to learn more!Find Sean here and find Julie here. Thank you to this month's sponsors! Baker Tilly and Sunbelt Business Advisors.

Happy Sunday everybody! We've hit the end of the first week in our month long celebration of "Back to the Future" and today I thought it would be fun to read through an article about Back to the Future and talk about it. Check out "37 Things to Look for the Next Time You Watch Back to the Future" by Sean Hutchinson on the Metal Floss website.

By the time a business owner has decided they are ready to exit they will need several plans in place to facilitate a successful transition. Sean Hutchinson has dedicated his career to helping business owners assess the state of their organizations to get ready for the next step in their lives. Sean is a thought leader and professional speaker in business value acceleration and transition readiness. He has dedicated his career to helping business owners successfully transition. Sean has advised more than 100 companies on ownership transitions, restructuring, value creation, and governance. Today, Sean joins the podcast to share some insights and solutions for business owners seeking to prepare for a successful transition. Is your business ready for exit? FULL SHOW NOTES CONNECT WITH US Twitter LinkedIn

Black cats and goblins and broomsticks and ghosts. Pumpkins of witches are there to roast. You may think, they scare me; you're probably right. Black-cats and goblins on Halloween night! - TRICK OR TREAT We examine the true tale of Laurie Strode and Michael Myers with the original Halloween and the 2018 remake! Sources: Halloween (1978) "A Film to Remember: Halloween (1978)" by Scott Anthony, Medium "The Making of John Carpenter's Halloween" by David Konow, Consequence of Sound "15 Terrifying Facts About John Carpenter's Halloween" by Sean Hutchinson, Mental Floss Director/Writer/Star Commentary with John Carpenter, Debra Hill, and Jamie Lee Curtis    

Well hello, good evening and ... [checks notes David Frost style] welcome to this first edition of the Real Millwall Fan Show of the 2019-20 season. Now if you'd have asked me my feelings about our beloved Lions a few weeks ago, I'd have into a semi-meltdown, wailing that we were shipping out players and were looking like playing Lottery Larry as first choice goalkeeper.But now? I am much more optimistic, the signings of Matt Smith, Conor Mahoney and Frank Fielding in goal having raised my spirits as we enter the traditional Millwall pre-season phase of trips to Canvey Island, the Medway towns and the maximum security HMP Vilamoura complex on the Algarve.I hope you enjoy this early season show, recorded via the miracle of Skype and hosted by Aaron sat in an MOT garage located somewhere in West London. Big thank yous too to my usual co-hosts Harry ‘F1' Warren and Michael ‘Club Shop' Avery. Advance welcome to a new voice who will emerge over the weeks ahead in Mike Hayden. I hope you enjoy the show, the conversation spark notes are copied below just because I thought you might like it.Arrivederci Millwall ...Nick@CBL_MagazineThe gloves are off' – Millwall's Neil Harris on opening up after safety securedMay 9, 2019 John Kelly'The message I put out loud and clear was a message to the fan base, really, to say, I'm not stupid, I know it needs to change.'Hellos and goodbyes- there's a sudden sense of positivity around The Den (it feels good) - an influx of quality?Hello Matt Smith / Connor Mahoney / Frank Fielding / Alex Pearce (perm) / Tom Bradshaw (we've barely seen him)Welcome back - Jiri Skalak? Millwall manager issues challenge to Jiri SkalakMay 23, 2019 John KellyWINGER had a difficult first season with Millwall after moving from BrightonWill the new signings / returns take off the creative burden from Jed Wallace?Welcome back Sean Hutchinson - will he be like having a new player?Welcome back Murray WallaceGutted - James Brown injured for four monthsCrucial season for Ben Thompson - the big time is callingPossible - WHO'S THE DADI? Millwall agree £750,000 transfer with Reading for Jon Dadi BodvarssonGoodbyee, goodbyee wipe a tear baby dear etc etc ...Goodbye 2018-19 season - survival achieved - 21st position - just one win during April (2-0 v WBA) BUT ... we survivedFormer Lions striker praises Neil Harris for keeping Millwall in the ChampionshipMay 16, 2019 StaffFORMER Millwall striker Gary Alexander admitted that Championship survival should always been recognised as a successful season for the club.Goodbye Steve Morison 336 apps 92 goals over three spells 2009-19Goodbye Lee Gregory 238 apps 77 goals 2015-19 - gone to Stoke, but no slo-mo video ...Goodbye Jordan Archer (?)Goodbye Ryan Tunnicliffe (Luton)Goodbye Conor McLaughlin (Sunderland)Good bye David Martin - (his dream move is to be West Ham's third choice keeper)Goodbye Sid Nelson (Tranmere)Goodbye Tom King (Newport)Goodbye Ben Marshall Norwich but this time it's forever ...The strange on /off Bartosz Bialkowski transfer storyThe Fred soap opera - is going or is he staying?Hope for the future - 'Some of them are certainly going to be good enough' – Neil Harris on Millwall's next crop of youngstersBilly Mitchell , George Alexander, Reuben Duncan, Tyler Burey, who signed from AFC Wimbledon, Sam Skeffington , Junior Tiensia and Harry RansomMillwall's pre season friendlies:Concord... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well hello, good evening and ... [checks notes David Frost style] welcome to this first edition of the Real Millwall Fan Show of the 2019-20 season. Now if you’d have asked me my feelings about our beloved Lions a few weeks ago, I’d have into a semi-meltdown, wailing that we were shipping out players and were looking like playing Lottery Larry as first choice goalkeeper.But now? I am much more optimistic, the signings of Matt Smith, Conor Mahoney and Frank Fielding in goal having raised my spirits as we enter the traditional Millwall pre-season phase of trips to Canvey Island, the Medway towns and the maximum security HMP Vilamoura complex on the Algarve.I hope you enjoy this early season show, recorded via the miracle of Skype and hosted by Aaron sat in an MOT garage located somewhere in West London. Big thank yous too to my usual co-hosts Harry ‘F1’ Warren and Michael ‘Club Shop’ Avery. Advance welcome to a new voice who will emerge over the weeks ahead in Mike Hayden. I hope you enjoy the show, the conversation spark notes are copied below just because I thought you might like it.Arrivederci Millwall ...Nick@CBL_MagazineThe gloves are off' – Millwall's Neil Harris on opening up after safety securedMay 9, 2019 John Kelly'The message I put out loud and clear was a message to the fan base, really, to say, I’m not stupid, I know it needs to change.'Hellos and goodbyes- there’s a sudden sense of positivity around The Den (it feels good) - an influx of quality?Hello Matt Smith / Connor Mahoney / Frank Fielding / Alex Pearce (perm) / Tom Bradshaw (we’ve barely seen him)Welcome back - Jiri Skalak? Millwall manager issues challenge to Jiri SkalakMay 23, 2019 John KellyWINGER had a difficult first season with Millwall after moving from BrightonWill the new signings / returns take off the creative burden from Jed Wallace?Welcome back Sean Hutchinson - will he be like having a new player?Welcome back Murray WallaceGutted - James Brown injured for four monthsCrucial season for Ben Thompson - the big time is callingPossible - WHO'S THE DADI? Millwall agree £750,000 transfer with Reading for Jon Dadi BodvarssonGoodbyee, goodbyee wipe a tear baby dear etc etc ...Goodbye 2018-19 season - survival achieved - 21st position - just one win during April (2-0 v WBA) BUT ... we survivedFormer Lions striker praises Neil Harris for keeping Millwall in the ChampionshipMay 16, 2019 StaffFORMER Millwall striker Gary Alexander admitted that Championship survival should always been recognised as a successful season for the club.Goodbye Steve Morison 336 apps 92 goals over three spells 2009-19Goodbye Lee Gregory 238 apps 77 goals 2015-19 - gone to Stoke, but no slo-mo video ...Goodbye Jordan Archer (?)Goodbye Ryan Tunnicliffe (Luton)Goodbye Conor McLaughlin (Sunderland)Good bye David Martin - (his dream move is to be West Ham’s third choice keeper)Goodbye Sid Nelson (Tranmere)Goodbye Tom King (Newport)Goodbye Ben Marshall Norwich but this time it’s forever ...The strange on /off Bartosz Bialkowski transfer storyThe Fred soap opera - is going or is he staying?Hope for the future - 'Some of them are certainly going to be good enough' – Neil Harris on Millwall's next crop of youngstersBilly Mitchell , George Alexander, Reuben Duncan, Tyler Burey, who signed from AFC Wimbledon, Sam Skeffington , Junior Tiensia and Harry RansomMillwall’s pre season friendlies:Concord... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  Sean Hutchinson and Barry Goodman, co-founders and partners with SVA Value Accelerators, do a deep dive continuation of the SVA episode as they talk about the challenges and perils of transition and the issues facing families in business. Sean is an expert in business value acceleration and transition readiness, while Barry is an expert in multigenerational family businesses with an advanced certificate in counseling family-owned businesses. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: The Challenges and Perils Of Transition And The Issues Facing Families In Business with Barry Goodman, President SVA Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Barry Goodman, President/Partner SVA Value Accelerators We’re doing a deep dive continuation with Sean Hutchinson and Barry Goodman, Cofounders and Partners with  SVA Value Accelerators (http://buildvaluetoday.com/) . This is a continuation of the SVA episode. We’re going to dig deeper into this complex topic. We’re going to talk about the challenges and perils of transition and the issues facing families in business. Sean, let’s recap where this segment fits in. Here’s the interesting thing about family-owned business in our value accelerator. If you think about our seven value accelerator sprints as vertical columns, family-owned business is the horizontal issue that cuts across all of them. It’s a different animal when you’re in a multigenerational family business. It’s great that we have on our team an expert in this area who is Barry. He’s got advanced certificates in counseling family-owned businesses. This as a resource that when we are working with a family-owned business, Barry’s expertise comes to bear. It cuts across all the sprints in value accelerator not just one but the constant issue when you are dealing with families. Barry, why are the family-owned businesses so different than perhaps other businesses? I believe you need to look at a Venn diagram where you have three circles.   Family, business ownership and management reside in each of the circles and intersects with each other. This is the family business system. You have one circle and it talks about ownership and another circle is family and the third circle is the management of the business. You can have people that are members of the family that are not involved in the business and members of the family that are involved in the business. You can have members of the family who own shares but have no participation. We’re going to have family and employees that are employed that are not related by blood or marriage. There are all these different conflicts going on, different needs, different objectives of each of these different parties. As generations move from first to second to third and along with the history of the business, you put another circle around that and that’s called the cousin of consortium. It’s no wonder why this is a confusing area and an area where there could be conflict without intending to have a conflict because of the different needs, wants and objectives of each of the individual family members or nonfamily members. That’s the pool that you’re navigating in. It’s a big pool and it can get a little tenuous at times. Business Transitions: Transition-ready businesses are more valuable.   In looking at the family business space, you were kind enough to provide a bunch of material for me to review. When you walk into a business situation where you’re working on value acceleration, what does that initial meeting or interaction with that business and/or family-owned business look like? It is to understand what’s going on in the business and what’s going on in the family. It goes to the central theme that we have at SVA. We believe that transition-ready businesses are...

  In our value accelerator, leadership is last.  That, to a lot of people, probably wouldn’t make sense, but we put it last for a reason. You will have been at whatever speed you were traveling when we started doing value acceleration. By the time you’re through sprint six, which is financial acceleration, you’re going to be moving at about 100 miles an hour much faster than you were. Your organization and your practices are going to look completely different. You’re a value-creating machine by the time you’ve gotten through those. Let Sean Hutchinson of SVA Value Accelerators and Joe Slatter, the Lead Advisor of Decision Dynamics and the SVA Leadership Accelerator, use leadership acceleration to take you from 100 miles an hour to 200 miles an hour as they talk about the path to higher valuation. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Leadership Described: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson of SVA Value Accelerators and Joe Slatter Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Joe Slatter In our value accelerator, leadership is last. You will have begun with decision dynamics, making better decisions faster and figuring out what matters. You’re going to figure out how to reduce risk and keep your business less risky. You’re going to have a clear vision of your company of the future and the tools that you can use to reach your objectives. We’re going to talk about financial acceleration, productivity, sales, and marketing, then we come to leadership. Why did we put it last? That to a lot of people probably wouldn’t make sense, but we put it last for a reason. You will have been at whatever speed you were traveling when we started doing value acceleration. By the time you’re through sprint six, which is financial acceleration, you’re going to be moving at about 100 miles an hour much faster than you were and your organization and your practices are going to look completely different. You’re a value-creating machine by the time you’ve gotten through those. We’re going to use leadership acceleration to take you from 100 miles an hour to 200 miles an hour. You, as an organization, are going to be able to bear that kind of acceleration. You will not break. We are doing a deep dive continuation with Sean Hutchinson of Decision Dynamics (http://www.decisiondynamics.se/en) and the SVA Leadership Accelerator. We are going to dig into leadership acceleration. Leadership acceleration, making leadership go faster. As Sean said, at this point, your organization has been through a transformation already. There’s a lot of good content, technique, process, and ways that you’re going to be thinking and operating in much more effective ways. I’m the business owner and I’ve got to make sense of all this and it’s still just me. The point of the transition readiness and all of this is to allow owner independence. We’ve got to get somehow figure out how to get that leadership transferred from the owner to the rest of the organization. At that point, there will have been leaders emerging. Every single one of these sprints results in leaders arriving and showing up. They’re not showing up from outside of your organization, they’re showing up from inside of your organization, which is a neat thing to watch. I suspect the owner probably knows who some of those folks are likely going to be already. We’ve got to accelerate that process. We’re going to create a very clear focus on empowering and giving the freedom and the authority to that new leadership team. There’s an aspect of design to this. Up until this point, we’ve been focused on a lot of fundamentals and specific functional areas and specific content areas. This is about putting all of that into practice. Now we are...

  Businesses need constant communication between owners and their team to grow. While it is the common perception that decisions are made from the top, there should be an autonomy that happens among the employees that will make them feel part of the conversation. After all, a business is not only about the leaders; it is also about the team. Sean Hutchinson, CEO at SVA Value Accelerators, is joined by Joe Slatter of SVA Leadership Accelerator to talk about decision dynamics. They put together the relationship and how decisions work, laying down the “what,” “so what,” and the “what now.” Ultimately, decision dynamics work to create higher valuation because it fosters a business where people are held accountable, sharing the responsibilities between the leaders and the team. — Listen to the podcast: Decision Dynamics: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Joe Slatter Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Joe Slatter We’re here to talk about decision dynamics and you are probably all wondering, “What is decision dynamics?” There are fancy words that consultants throw around. What this comes down to is operational excellence. That’s something that Sean and I had been talking about ever since we’ve known each other is operational excellence. It comes down to, “Can you make a good decision in a reasonable amount of time?” Everything we do with this content is helping organizations. This isn’t about the boss being able to make better decisions. This is about the whole team being able to make better decisions and driving those decisions as close to the action as we possibly can. I have Sean Hutchinson, CEO/Partner at SVA Value Accelerators (http://buildvaluetoday.com/) and Joe Slatter, Lead Advisor Decision Dynamics at SVA Leadership Accelerator. We’re doing a continuation of an original podcast where we talked to Sean about SVA. We’re doing a deep dive and we’re going to go into Decision Dynamics. We talked about making good decisions quickly. How do you do that? Everybody comes into every situation with a way that they’re thinking and a way that they solve problems. The challenge is, they are all different ways. If we’re coming at this from an owner’s perspective, they’re thinking strategically. They’re trying to make the best decisions for the long game. A lot of the folks who may be out in the field are working directly with the customers. They’ve got real problems that they’ve got to solve. Much of their thinking is a shorter game. How do we reconcile those two so that everybody understands a whole bunch of different kinds of decisions gets made so that we can make them in the right spot? That’s what this comes down to. As a business owner, I’m going, “It helps me make decisions quicker.” Quicker must be then better, but what’s the process? What do you guys do? If you’re coming into an organization, what’s your process to look at how they make decisions? What do you bring to the table in the process to help that identify and approve? We start right out of the gate by providing them with what we call a liberating structure. Everybody needs some way to make sense in the world. Before we even start talking about their world, we develop a common language and a different way that we can look at things together. What that allows us then to do is conduct a conversation with them where we’re all sharing the same language. We have a common way of looking at what’s working and what’s not working and why those things matter and what we can do about it. That second piece, after they understand this basic structure, they’re able to tell stories basically using this new language. Out of those stories come all kinds of rich information. The owners are usually amazed at what their staff is...

  In today’s world, the impact of social networking is undeniable not only to how people communicate but to businesses as well. It has become the forefront of this new wave of marketing that helps people get their voice and brand out there. Talking about social selling and influencer marketing is CEO of Forward Progress and creator of Social Jack, Dean DeLisle. Dean gives insights about the value accelerators world while sharing his processes when meeting companies. He also distinguishes between client acquisition and branding, ultimately putting forward the importance of humanizing the brand. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: Dean DeLisle Social Selling And Influencer Marketing SVA: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Our goal is to humanize the brand. In today’s world of business, it’s crazy how everything became about the brand and the logo. Our mission is to make sure that each and every brand has the human aspect to it, so we always say we’re all about the people. We love bringing the people out of the brand and to the forefront and helping them have an amazing digital presence, reputation, build credibility and become the thought leaders that they already are. Externalizing that to the world is our mission. We’re doing a deep dive continuation of the SVA Value Accelerators podcast: Creating the Path to Higher Valuation with Sean Hutchinson. Our guest is Dean DeLisle. He’s the lead advisor for sales and marketing acceleration, specifically social selling and influencer marketing. He’s the Founder and CEO of Social Jack (https://socialjack.com/) , a business influencer development platform. They’ve served over 120,000 professionals in over 30 countries. Dean, thanks for taking the time and welcome. Thanks for having me. Where do you fit in with the value accelerators world? Like we all know, some people see sales and marketing depending on the size of the business, type of business, where your market is, who your customer is as either something that’s necessary or unnecessary evil. We try to take the evil out unnecessary when it comes to sales and marketing. We come in in that part when they’re building value within an organization. One of the biggest assets are the customers that are around that business, the context, the network that surrounds that business. In today’s world, a huge part of that is social networks. It’s something that you and I and a lot of the audience haven’t grown up with, but now we’ve adapted to the fact that it’s something that we have to pay attention to. We could spend three or four podcasts on the evolution of marketing. The real fact is that many businesses still don’t understand what they need to do, how to measure what the choices are between traditional marketing, marketing fundamentals and digital marketing. Not only is it hard to understand, but it’s also a changing landscape. You mentioned our Social Jack platform and we’re constantly dedicated to having our team of coaches literally scour the internet and determine of all the things that are updated. We gauge that about every twelve seconds there’s a new release, a new update, a change, new mobile app, something that hits the marketplace. It’s our job to sift through that and say here we have the mission of driving business value by making this company known in the marketplace by growing a community and a following around this business. Digital is a big piece. What are the best things to do? What are the best tools to use? We take traditional best marketing practices that have been around for decades. I’ve been doing this for over 35 years. As we look at how communication, computers and evolution has changed, it’s funny how now things are changing so fast, but the fundamentals still apply. We help break...

  Continuing the deep dive from an original by Sean Hutchinson from SVA Value Accelerators Methodology, Sean gets right down through the financial accelerator component. He covers three things about the power of the financial accelerator – financial transparency, lowering the cost of capital, and the importance of knowing when to stop funding things that are ripping economic value away from the shareholders. Sean also touches on higher valuation, explaining how to talk with a lending institution, the Feed-Starve principle, and transferability options. Ultimately, creating value can be interpreted as the wealth of the owner, but what it should be is the value it has to shareholders and the whole company. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Financial Accelerator Methodology Detailed: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re doing a continuation deep dive from an original podcast with Sean Hutchinson from SVA Value Accelerators (http://buildvaluetoday.com/) Methodology. We’re going to go through the financial accelerator component. Our Value Accelerator consists of discovery plus seven 90-day sprints. We’re talking about a two-year project. Why do we put financial acceleration toward the end? We’ve gone through decision making and culture, risk reduction and productivity, the company of the future, and  sales and marketing at this point. What we’re trying to figure out in the financial accelerator is how to efficiently fund it all at the lowest cost of capital possible. Often, the financial strategy and the organizational strategy are not aligned. You can have a good foundation of strategy, a good operational foundation and a good productive, efficient process. If the financing strategies don’t line up with it, you keep running into these blockades that ultimately are not going to serve you. Financial acceleration is also importantly about creating shareholder value for the owners. Ultimately, when we talk about value creation or value acceleration, what we’re doing is accelerating shareholder value. We’re creating transferability options for the owner that they did not have before. When you say transferability options, what that means is we have a buyer out there and the business owner wants to sell. That would be an example of an outside transfer, but the business has to be able to transfer also to the inside if that’s the way it’s going to go. Employee ownership, management ownership, partnership, or transfer to family. Those are the four inside options. The outside options are to sell to a third party, recapitalize the business which brings in a partner that takes part of the ownership, or liquidate. When I’m talking about transferable value, I am talking about being able to efficiently transfer the ownership of the business at the highest value possible. Most businesses when we start working with them are not transferable at all. If you put a value on the business, it’s probably more of a fair market value or an IRS tax value than a true market representation. Our position is nobody would buy your business. Particularly, Mr. Owner or Mrs. Owner, if you would look at your business from the outside and say, “I don’t think I would buy that business,” then it has zero value. The IRS is happy to put a value on it, especially within your estate. They got their own valuation approach. Even if yours is not transferable, they’re going to say that it has value and they’re going to tax you on it. We are always talking about transferability and value in our work because we think that that’s the acid test. Will it transfer from one party to the other efficiently at the highest value possible? The balance sheet tells an incredibly powerful story about the business. Click...

  Continuing the deep dive from an original by Sean Hutchinson from SVA Value Accelerators Methodology, Sean gets right down through the financial accelerator component. He covers three things about the power of the financial accelerator – financial transparency, lowering the cost of capital, and the importance of knowing when to stop funding things that are ripping economic value away from the shareholders. Sean also touches on higher valuation, explaining how to talk with a lending institution, the Feed-Starve principle, and transferability options. Ultimately, creating value can be interpreted as the wealth of the owner, but what it should be is the value it has to shareholders and the whole company. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Financial Accelerator Methodology Detailed: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re doing a continuation deep dive from an original podcast with Sean Hutchinson from http://buildvaluetoday.com/ (SVA Value Accelerators) Methodology. We’re going to go through the financial accelerator component. Our Value Accelerator consists of discovery plus seven 90-day sprints. We’re talking about a two-year project. Why do we put financial acceleration toward the end? We’ve gone through decision making and culture, risk reduction and productivity, the company of the future, and  sales and marketing at this point. What we’re trying to figure out in the financial accelerator is how to efficiently fund it all at the lowest cost of capital possible. Often, the financial strategy and the organizational strategy are not aligned. You can have a good foundation of strategy, a good operational foundation and a good productive, efficient process. If the financing strategies don’t line up with it, you keep running into these blockades that ultimately are not going to serve you. Financial acceleration is also importantly about creating shareholder value for the owners. Ultimately, when we talk about value creation or value acceleration, what we’re doing is accelerating shareholder value. We’re creating transferability options for the owner that they did not have before. When you say transferability options, what that means is we have a buyer out there and the business owner wants to sell. That would be an example of an outside transfer, but the business has to be able to transfer also to the inside if that’s the way it’s going to go. Employee ownership, management ownership, partnership, or transfer to family. Those are the four inside options. The outside options are to sell to a third party, recapitalize the business which brings in a partner that takes part of the ownership, or liquidate. When I’m talking about transferable value, I am talking about being able to efficiently transfer the ownership of the business at the highest value possible. Most businesses when we start working with them are not transferable at all. If you put a value on the business, it’s probably more of a fair market value or an IRS tax value than a true market representation. Our position is nobody would buy your business. Particularly, Mr. Owner or Mrs. Owner, if you would look at your business from the outside and say, “I don’t think I would buy that business,” then it has zero value. The IRS is happy to put a value on it, especially within your estate. They got their own valuation approach. Even if yours is not transferable, they’re going to say that it has value and they’re going to tax you on it. We are always talking about transferability and value in our work because we think that that’s the acid test. Will it transfer from one party to the other efficiently at the highest value possible? The balance sheet tells an incredibly powerful story about the...

  Continuing the deep dive from an original by Sean Hutchinson from SVA Value Accelerators Methodology, Sean gets right down through the financial accelerator component. He covers three things about the power of the financial accelerator – financial transparency, lowering the cost of capital, and the importance of knowing when to stop funding things that are ripping economic value away from the shareholders. Sean also touches on higher valuation, explaining how to talk with a lending institution, the Feed-Starve principle, and transferability options. Ultimately, creating value can be interpreted as the wealth of the owner, but what it should be is the value it has to shareholders and the whole company. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Financial Accelerator Methodology Detailed: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re doing a continuation deep dive from an original podcast with Sean Hutchinson from http://buildvaluetoday.com/ (SVA Value Accelerators) Methodology. We’re going to go through the financial accelerator component. Our Value Accelerator consists of discovery plus seven 90-day sprints. We’re talking about a two-year project. Why do we put financial acceleration toward the end? We’ve gone through decision making and culture, risk reduction and productivity, the company of the future, and  sales and marketing at this point. What we’re trying to figure out in the financial accelerator is how to efficiently fund it all at the lowest cost of capital possible. Often, the financial strategy and the organizational strategy are not aligned. You can have a good foundation of strategy, a good operational foundation and a good productive, efficient process. If the financing strategies don’t line up with it, you keep running into these blockades that ultimately are not going to serve you. Financial acceleration is also importantly about creating shareholder value for the owners. Ultimately, when we talk about value creation or value acceleration, what we’re doing is accelerating shareholder value. We’re creating transferability options for the owner that they did not have before. When you say transferability options, what that means is we have a buyer out there and the business owner wants to sell. That would be an example of an outside transfer, but the business has to be able to transfer also to the inside if that’s the way it’s going to go. Employee ownership, management ownership, partnership, or transfer to family. Those are the four inside options. The outside options are to sell to a third party, recapitalize the business which brings in a partner that takes part of the ownership, or liquidate. When I’m talking about transferable value, I am talking about being able to efficiently transfer the ownership of the business at the highest value possible. Most businesses when we start working with them are not transferable at all. If you put a value on the business, it’s probably more of a fair market value or an IRS tax value than a true market representation. Our position is nobody would buy your business. Particularly, Mr. Owner or Mrs. Owner, if you would look at your business from the outside and say, “I don’t think I would buy that business,” then it has zero value. The IRS is happy to put a value on it, especially within your estate. They got their own valuation approach. Even if yours is not transferable, they’re going to say that it has value and they’re going to tax you on it. We are always talking about transferability and value in our work because we think that that’s the acid test. Will it transfer from one party to the other efficiently at the highest value possible? The balance sheet tells an incredibly powerful story about the...

  The reason all owners are in business should be primarily to create value for themselves. The way they create value for themselves is by creating value for customers. One way to do that is by productivity acceleration. Productivity is accelerated by understanding non-value-added activities and stop doing them. That frees up a tremendous quantity of resources, time, cash, and physical space to focus on delivering customer value. This is a deep dive continuation with Sean Hutchinson, CEO/Partner with SVA Value Accelerators and Alistair Stewart, the Manufacturing Practice Leader, also with SVA Value Accelerators. This continuation is where we’re going to dig deeper and talk about productivity acceleration. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast here: Productivity Acceleration Detailed with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Alistair Stewart SVA Value Accelerators Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson and Alistair Stewart This is a deep dive continuation with Sean Hutchinson, CEO/Partner with  SVA Value Accelerators (http://buildvaluetoday.com/)  and Alistair Stewart, the Manufacturing Practice Leader, also with SVA Value Accelerators. This continuation of the episode is where we’re going to dig deeper and talk about productivity acceleration. I appreciate it. Thanks so much for taking the time. Thanks. It’s great to be with you. Let’s talk a little bit about what productivity acceleration is. We can think about productivity as the effectiveness of the productive effort. It’s measured by the rate of output per unit. What does accelerating mean? That means making it happen quicker. The reason all owners are in business should be primarily to create value for themselves. The way they create value for themselves is by creating value for customers. Here’s an example.  Imagine that an owner staples a new order to their back, the next customer order…every time they shake somebody’s hand, every time they meet somebody, every time they wait for somebody, every time they wait for something, every time something has to go back to be redone, checking and rechecking all those activities, are what we call “non-value-added” steps. If you start to look at the operations of a typical company, and most owners are going to be shocked if they are reading this for the first time, about 95% of all activities do not create customer value. To create customer value, an activity has to pass a classic three-part test. An activity, has to be done right the first time; It has to change the form fit or function if it’s a tangible product or has to deliver a service that otherwise wouldn’t happen or it has to convert data into information or knowledge, changing the form fit or function of something. The last and best of the three parts of the acid test is the customer must be willing to pay for it. Again, imagine a hypothetical owner stapling him or herself to an order that halfway through that order has to go back to the preceding step because we are missing some information. We’re not exactly sure if the customer wanted it in blue or in black. We go back and we find that the sales guy wrote down B in the color box. That was all non-value-added activity. We’re going to break that out as a line item on the invoice to the customer. Checking what color you ordered. You told us loud and clear what color you ordered. We didn’t understand. We didn’t write it down. We didn’t record it. No customer is going to pay that. All of these little activities that are pervasive in every organization are  death by a thousand cuts, and productivity is hurt.. Productivity is accelerated by understanding non-value-added activities and stopping doing them. That frees up a tremendous quantity of resources, time, cash and physical space to focus on delivering customer value. Think about the activities that...

  Everybody understands what productivity is. It’s basically doing more with less. The former chairman of Procter & Gamble once said productivity is everything in every business. Sean Hutchinson, CEO/Partner of SVA Value Accelerators, talks about the productivity accelerator which is the fourth out of seven value accelerators. Sean says the reason that it’s in the middle is that it provides an important inflection point built on what’s happened before and it’s a predictor of what happens in the future. Learn more about productivity as Sean talks about the tools for productivity, the value-added process mapping, quality control, risk reduction, and more. — Watch the podcast: Listen to the podcast: Productivity: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re doing a continuation deep dive from an original podcast. We did it with Sean Hutchinson of SVA Value Accelerators (http://buildvaluetoday.com/) . What we’re going to be talking about is part of the Value Acceleration methodology. We’re going to be talking about the productivity portion of that. Sean, thanks again. The former chairman of Procter & Gamble once said, “Productivity is everything in every business.” This particular piece of our Value Accelerator, the Productivity Accelerator, comes four out of seven. The reason that it’s in the middle is that it provides an important inflection point built on what’s happened before and it’s a predictor of what happens in the future. Value creation and value acceleration tend to not be linear. It’s more of a slow climb and then there’s an inflection point where it takes off. The exponential value curve is a scoop. One of the things that inflects that curve and gets it to move into a steep incline is increases in productivity. Everybody understands what productivity is but it’s doing more with less. There are a couple of different places in your numbers that you’re going to see it on your financial statements, but one place is in the gross margin. Not the net margin necessarily. The gross margin is the indicator of financial productivity in the organization, of essential throughput of the assets. How quickly did they get through the organization? How quickly did they produce income cash? How quickly did they generate margin? Productivity is about not just efficiency, but it’s also about velocity. It’s also about the efficient use of capital within the organization. What are the tools that we use? One tool is called $50 to $5,000. It is a concept that came out of Rob Slee’s book, Midas Managers (https://www.amazon.com/Midas-Managers-Rob-Slee/dp/0979047803) . It’s an amazing concept and it’s been effective with our clients. If I go into a management team for instance or even talking to an owner and I say, “How much of your day do you spend doing $50 an hour work?” If they don’t land immediately on a percentage, which tends to be in the 90% of the day or above then the answer is way too much. That’s an immediate acknowledgment that productivity in the organization even at the top is dampened. It’s restricted. The reason for that is that not just the CEO, but everybody else in the organization is working on the wrong stuff. There may be delegation problems. There may be process problems. There may be culture and communication problems. At the end of the day, stuff’s getting stuck in the organization. What we want in order to create economic value is for the highest-level strategic thinkers in the organization to be doing $5,000 an hour work. That’s where the juice gets put into the deal. Being aware is one piece of it. How much $50 an hour work are you doing? What are the things that are $50 an hour work? How quickly and how efficiently and...

  When we say higher valuation, many business owners focus more on profits than actually looking into the threats to earning those profits. Sean Hutchinson and Alistair Stewart of SVA Value Accelerators talk about the importance of risk reduction. Together, they lay down the five categories of risks out there for business owners to consider: strategic, compliance, operational, financial, and reputational risk. They present situations and solutions that could help you picture out how to overcome them. They also talk about whether owners are aware of these risks while discussing a de-risked company versus a risky company and the value gap between them. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Rapid Risk Reduction Methodology Detailed: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson SVA Value Accelerators and Alistair Stewart Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson Risks are the consequences of an action, an event that is reasonably likely to undermine or threaten goals or objectives that have been determined. There are things you can do or stop doing to increase enterprise value that are counter-intuitive and will increase the value of your business. We’re doing a deep dive continuation with Sean Hutchinson, CEO, and Partner with SVA Value Accelerators (http://buildvaluetoday.com/) and Alistair Stewart. He’s the Manufacturing Practice Leader from SVA Value Accelerators. We’re going to dig deeper and we’re going to talk about rapid risk reduction. Alistair, let us know. Risks are out there in a variety of categories and most business owners and people working in the business become a little desensitized to them. You can think of risks as being in a broad spectrum of categories. Strategic risk, compliance risk, operational risk, financial risk, and reputational risk. Those are five broad categories. We can also consider that risks exist within a business and risks exist outside of a business. If we look at how businesses are valued. If we look at the worth of a business, it’s pretty obvious to financial investors and pretty opaque to owners and employees that reducing risk represents a tremendous opportunity to increase the value of a business, particularly the transferable value of a business. We can look at say strategic risk. Strategic risk is something that threatens the outcomes that a business has chosen to pursue. There’s a little bit of an eye-opener there. Are we choosing our outcomes? Do we understand the threats that compromise our ability to realize those outcomes? What might those risks, those threats be? We can go down the list of compliance if that matters to the industry that you’re in, operational, financial and reputational. A fairly straightforward discussion on those topics will reveal a tremendous amount of business  value, of enterprise value, that’s threatened by inattention to these existential matters. In these three categories of how to increase the value of the business, increasing earnings, reducing risk and increasing marketability, those broad categories, a lot of business owners and their teams are going to focus on increasing earnings as an instinctual way to increase the value of a business. That’s understandable. That’s where a lot of resources go. When we see that big category of things that you have to do to reduce risk or should do, could do or will do, less attention is typically paid to those things. They can have a dramatic effect immediately on the economic enterprise value, transferable enterprise value, and we can add value. What people need to realize, what owners might tune in on here, is that we can add value to our business pretty dramatically without adding $1 of revenue or $1 of profit. Those things in the beginning of the value acceleration process have less effect on value. In fact, they may...

  Business is all about being able to look forward and come through from where you are in the present. Sean Hutchinson, CEO/Partner of SVA Value Accelerators, talks about the Company of the Future in the value accelerator. He shares the intensive work his company has been doing with pivoting owners to advance towards their goals in the future. The Company of the Future is that strategy where you will have to think of the current and future state of your business. Get down into it as you answer the question of “Where are we going and how are we going to get there?” Sean breaks down the two tools that can help you find the answers to these questions: the graphics game plan and strategic doing. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: Company Of The Future: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson We’re going to go through and do a continuation or a deep dive from an original episode with Sean Hutchinson of SVA (http://buildvaluetoday.com/) . He’s the CEO and partner. What we’re going to be talking about is the value accelerator methodology, Company of the Future. Sean, welcome to the podcast. Thank you, Bob. It’s good to be here. Let’s talk about the Company of the Future component. As a reminder, a few principles from the first episode that we did. We have three classes of owners, three categories. We’ve got the explorers, we’ve got the pivoters and we’ve got the triggers. Explorers are seeking information and insights. Pivoters are working on value accelerator actively and intensively. Then the triggerers are owners who are looking in the short-term to transition ownership of their business. Company of the Future is in the value accelerator. We’re working with the pivoting owners. Company of the Future is a strategy. Think about the current state, future state when you’re doing strategy, you’ve got two questions to answer. They’re simple questions. Where are we going and how are we going to get there? That’s all you need to answer. We created Company of the Future as a 90-day sprint and what we ask our clients to do is concentrate on those two questions. They’re going to continue to run their business, it’s not like we’re going on a 90-day retreat. What we are focusing on in terms of value acceleration is where are we going as a company out of all the options out there? Where do we want to plant our flag? How do we want to create a direct path or at least a path that can efficiently get us there? Then what resources are we going to need both in our company and from outside of our company in order to activate that pathway? What I’m going to describe to you are two things after using a few visuals here. I’m going to describe to you two tools. One is the graphic game plan and the other is called strategic doing, which is an agile strategy methodology. We believe in agile strategy and, I want to say as many times as I possibly can, this has a strong bias for action. The reason that we call it strategic doing is because strategic planning doesn’t encourage anybody to do anything at all except plan. Think about being in an action mindset throughout this entire process. That’s what’s going to count. You're going to have to learn what the essence of leadership is and that is knowing what not to do. Click To Tweet (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbusinessleaderspodcast.com%2Fcompany-of-the-future-creating-the-path-to-higher-valuation-with-ceopartner-sean-hutchinson%2F&text=You%27re%20going%20to%20have%20to%20learn%20what%20the%20essence%20of%20leadership%20is%20and%20that%20is%20knowing%20what%20not%20to%20do.&related) I want you to imagine that we have a picture from the Kepler Space Telescope that shows us all of the Milky Way at one time. What is that going to look like?...

Many business owners flinch when hearing the word “transition.” The reason is how, for so long, it has been associated with the death of the business. CEO and Partner of SVA Value Accelerators Sean Hutchinson says otherwise. In fact, he believes that it is the path to higher valuation, making the business more valuable. With his expertise on value acceleration and transition readiness for business owners around the country, he shares the reasons why equipping yourself with the succession tools are very important. Sean talks about the three buckets or classifications of business owners that represent different points along the journey to transition readiness: explorers, pivoters, and triggerers. Learn which among these you belong to as Sean gives the three ways that you can increase the value of your business. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson 75% to 95% of the business owners’ net worth is tied up in their business, but only 10% have a plan for monetizing that net worth and only 20% will. On the show, we have Sean Hutchinson. He’s the CEO and Partner of http://buildvaluetoday.com/ (SVA Value Accelerators). Sean, welcome to the podcast. Thank you, Bob. Tell us a little bit about your business and who you serve. Our business is about value acceleration and transition readiness for business owners around the country. We only work with private businesses. We don’t focus on the publicly traded market and we work mostly with Baby Boomers, with some exceptions, that are middle-aged folks moving into the later stage of their business career. One reason why we work with Baby Boomers so often is there are so many of them. It’s a demographic that’s unprecedented in the United States. 50% of the Baby Boomers are saying that they’re going to transition their ownership in their business over the next five years. The other 50% say within ten. It’s hard to match that up with market cycles and other things. We focus on getting them ready so that they can take advantage of the window of opportunity when it’s open. The businesses tend to be in six different industries for us because we have specialty practices but they’re revenue-wise maybe $15 million to $250 million. However, that ideal customer question had us perplexed because when people would ask, “What’s your ideal customer?” we’d start answering it in the way that almost everybody else answers it. It was  “In this industry with minimum of $15 million in revenue. Business is healthy, not distressed, and so on” One day in a strategic planning meeting when we had a new advisor come on board, he asked the same question. We started answering in the same way and then somehow the conversation just stopped and we all looked at one another and said, “If the client is the owner, why are we describing our client with data about the business? Why is that the profile?” It seemed like the wrong answer and so we created what we call Three Buckets, three classifications, of owners that we think represent different points along the journey to transition readiness. Bucket number one is the explorers. Explorers are owners who are trying to get insights and information before they decide to engage in advisory programs. They’re trying to get some clarity before they decide to spend the money, spend the time, devote the resources, to doing value acceleration and transition readiness. The second group is the pivoters. These are the folks who have probably been sitting on their hands for a while. Procrastination is something that we all have to overcome. Whether it’s because of a life event or something else, they wake up and say, “I’ve got to do something about this.” It could be because of a business event. Things aren’t going too well in the business or something. They lose their top customer or whatever it might be...

Many business owners flinch when hearing the word “transition.” The reason is how, for so long, it has been associated with the death of the business. CEO and Partner of SVA Value Accelerators Sean Hutchinson says otherwise. In fact, he believes that it is the path to higher valuation, making the business more valuable. With his expertise on value acceleration and transition readiness for business owners around the country, he shares the reasons why equipping yourself with the succession tools are very important. Sean talks about the three buckets or classifications of business owners that represent different points along the journey to transition readiness: explorers, pivoters, and triggerers. Learn which among these you belong to as Sean gives the three ways that you can increase the value of your business. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Creating The Path To Higher Valuation with CEO/Partner Sean Hutchinson 75% to 95% of the business owners’ net worth is tied up in their business, but only 10% have a plan for monetizing that net worth and only 20% will. On the show, we have Sean Hutchinson. He’s the CEO and Partner of SVA Value Accelerators (http://buildvaluetoday.com/) . Sean, welcome to the podcast. Thank you, Bob. Tell us a little bit about your business and who you serve. Our business is about value acceleration and transition readiness for business owners around the country. We only work with private businesses. We don’t focus on the publicly traded market and we work mostly with Baby Boomers, with some exceptions, that are middle-aged folks moving into the later stage of their business career. One reason why we work with Baby Boomers so often is there are so many of them. It’s a demographic that’s unprecedented in the United States. 50% of the Baby Boomers are saying that they’re going to transition their ownership in their business over the next five years. The other 50% say within ten. It’s hard to match that up with market cycles and other things. We focus on getting them ready so that they can take advantage of the window of opportunity when it’s open. The businesses tend to be in six different industries for us because we have specialty practices but they’re revenue-wise maybe $15 million to $250 million. However, that ideal customer question had us perplexed because when people would ask, “What’s your ideal customer?” we’d start answering it in the way that almost everybody else answers it. It was  “In this industry with minimum of $15 million in revenue. Business is healthy, not distressed, and so on” One day in a strategic planning meeting when we had a new advisor come on board, he asked the same question. We started answering in the same way and then somehow the conversation just stopped and we all looked at one another and said, “If the client is the owner, why are we describing our client with data about the business? Why is that the profile?” It seemed like the wrong answer and so we created what we call Three Buckets, three classifications, of owners that we think represent different points along the journey to transition readiness. Bucket number one is the explorers. Explorers are owners who are trying to get insights and information before they decide to engage in advisory programs. They’re trying to get some clarity before they decide to spend the money, spend the time, devote the resources, to doing value acceleration and transition readiness. The second group is the pivoters. These are the folks who have probably been sitting on their hands for a while. Procrastination is something that we all have to overcome. Whether it’s because of a life event or something else, they wake up and say, “I’ve got to do something about this.” It could be because of a business event. Things aren’t going too well in the business or something. They lose their top customer or

In this episode Jonathan continues his interview with Sean Hutchinson at SVA Value Accelerators LLC. They continue to explore the first leg of the "Master Plan" - value optimization. Furthermore, Sean outlines the importance of building a personal financial plan and a "life after plan" for those serious about positioning their company for a later transition - to another generation or to another buyer.

Technology saved the day for Millwall yesterday in a gritty 1-1 with relegation haunted Sunderland. The Black Cats has established a deserved lead in the first half thanks a to fine shot from distance by Oviedo (‘the three' in Achtung parlance), only for the goal line assistance to confirm that Sean Hutchinson's 69th minue shot had crossed the line.Overall though, this was a dissatisfying day and result for the Lions. However unlikely it might be, the allure of the outsider's run at the sixth spot in the league table is enticing - and three points yesterday would really have set The Den on fire in anticipation.Perhaps though manager Neil Harris has it right in setting context to Millwall's season, when he reminds us that we started back in August as all the pundits' relegation favourites. The fact that anything under a top ten finish now will feel like a disappointment is a powerful testimony to what has been achieved.This week's edition of Achtung! Millwall includes the familiar in-game stream of consciousness, a fantastic conversation with Michael Hook - father of brave little Isla Caton, whose story had brought West Ham and Millwall together - plus some post game comment from Lucas Ball.The show closes out with a conversation I had midweek with When Saturday Comes contributor and show regular Neil ‘Crazyhorse' Andrews. The subject in hand being over 35 year old Millwall players...To contribute to the Isla Caton appeal please visit https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/achtungmillwallforislaThank you to EVERYONE who has contributed so far - it is massively appreciated by the family I know.Arrivederci MillwallNick@CBL_MagazineCBLthemag@hotmail.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Technology saved the day for Millwall yesterday in a gritty 1-1 with relegation haunted Sunderland. The Black Cats has established a deserved lead in the first half thanks a to fine shot from distance by Oviedo (‘the three’ in Achtung parlance), only for the goal line assistance to confirm that Sean Hutchinson’s 69th minue shot had crossed the line.Overall though, this was a dissatisfying day and result for the Lions. However unlikely it might be, the allure of the outsider’s run at the sixth spot in the league table is enticing - and three points yesterday would really have set The Den on fire in anticipation.Perhaps though manager Neil Harris has it right in setting context to Millwall’s season, when he reminds us that we started back in August as all the pundits’ relegation favourites. The fact that anything under a top ten finish now will feel like a disappointment is a powerful testimony to what has been achieved.This week’s edition of Achtung! Millwall includes the familiar in-game stream of consciousness, a fantastic conversation with Michael Hook - father of brave little Isla Caton, whose story had brought West Ham and Millwall together - plus some post game comment from Lucas Ball.The show closes out with a conversation I had midweek with When Saturday Comes contributor and show regular Neil ‘Crazyhorse’ Andrews. The subject in hand being over 35 year old Millwall players...To contribute to the Isla Caton appeal please visit https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/achtungmillwallforislaThank you to EVERYONE who has contributed so far - it is massively appreciated by the family I know.Arrivederci MillwallNick@CBL_MagazineCBLthemag@hotmail.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Co-Hosts of Sharpen The Axe - Eric Lucero and Paul Berezetsky - interview Sean Hutchinson of Hutch & Sons Guitar repair, the resident Guitar Tech at Pitbull Audio.You can check them out here:https://www.pitbullaudio.com/http://www.hutchandsonsrepairs.com/Watch the Video Version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gr_jIWGqSo

Iain is joined by magician Pete Heat and the Haunted Landlord, SeanIain is joined by magician Pete Heat who does live magic, Iain chats with Sean Hutchinson who claims his pub is haunted, Richard the ghost lists the perks of being a ghost and sucking them off, Line 1 has a pizza problem and Variety […]

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Last week our guest noted startling statistics on the small number of businesses built that are ever sold (20-30%) and the wealth creation that never occurs. On today's episode, our guest, Sean Hutchinson, CEO of Strategic Value Advisors, will speak to actions owners can take today to buck this trend, create true value, and ultimately wealth, for not only themselves, but generations to come. One such action Mr. Hutchinson will discuss in a value creation strategy is employee engagement. Join us to learn why employee engagement matters, how a business owner can get started, and importantly, telltale signs that a culture of value creation is emerging.

This month on the Newsstand, Ryan is joined by Scott Nye, Sean Hutchinson, and David Blakeslee to discuss the February 2015 Criterion Collection line-up, the upcoming book: Criterion Designs, as well as the latest in Criterion rumors, packaging, and more.

This month on the Newsstand, Ryan is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Sean Hutchinson to discuss the November 2014 Criterion Collection line-up, as well as the latest in Criterion rumors, Hulu additions, and home video announcements.

This month on the Newsstand, Ryan is joined by Sean Hutchinson and David Blakeslee to discuss the death of the Dual Format releases, the...

Unable to hang onto the pipe, Luke tumbles out, emerging at the undermost part of Cloud City. Reaching out desperately, he manages to grab onto on electronic weather vane. Recorded live at the Parkside Lounge, NYC. Guest commentators: Sean Hutchinson and Meredith Woerner

This month on the Newsstand, Ryan is joined by Scott Nye and Sean Hutchinson to discuss the July 2014 Criterion Collection line-up, as well as the latest in Criterion rumors, Hulu deals, and home video announcements.

This time on The Newsstand, Ryan is joined by Sean Hutchinson, and Scott Nye to talk about Criterion's June 2014 line-up, the current state of the Criterion Hulu Channel, several upcoming home video releases, and more!

This time on The Newsstand, Ryan is joined by David Blakeslee, Sean Hutchinson, and Scott Nye to talk about Criterion's May 2014 line-up, the last couple of wacky newsletter drawings, and more!

This time on The Newsstand, Ryan is joined by James McCormick, and Sean Hutchinson to talk about Criterion's April 2014 line-up, the Wacky New Year's Drawing, the 60's Batman TV series coming to home video and more!

This time on The Newsstand, Ryan is joined by Josh Brunsting, Scott Nye, Sean Hutchinson, and David Blakeslee to talk about Criterion's March 2014 line-up, the Wexner talk, the latest wacky newsletter drawings, and more!

This time on The Newsstand, Ryan is joined by Josh Brunsting, Scott Nye, Sean Hutchinson, and David Blakeslee to talk about Criterion's January 2014 line-up, the trailer for The Grand Budapest Hotel, the upcoming Wexner Center talk, the Fantastic Mr Fox, and more!

This time on The Newsstand, Ryan is joined by David Blakeslee, Sean Hutchinson, Travis George and Josh Brunsting to talk about Criterion's shift to dual-format releases, the November 2013 line-up, the World Cinema Foundation coming to the Hulu Plus channel, and more!

This time on The Newsstand, Ryan is joined by Josh Brunsting and Sean Hutchinson to discuss the September 2013 Criterion Collection Line-Up, the possible fall Criterion box sets, and the 101 Days Of Summer Hulu Plus channel.

This time on The Newsstand, Ryan is joined by James, Josh, David Blakeslee and Sean Hutchinson to discuss the August 2013 Criterion Collection Line-Up, the Cannes Classics films, and the new Hulu search functionality on Criterion.com.

This week on the show Ryan and Josh are joined by Sean Hutchinson to discuss a handful of news stories surrounding the Criterion Collection.