Business coaches for exit planning and succession
Compare 222 business coaches who focus on exit planning and succession. Besides exit planning and succession, the most common focus areas are scaling and growth, operations and systems, leadership and team building and startups and founders. They most often work with founders and business owners, executives and managers. Most charge $200 to $325 per hour or session.
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Adam Kaplan
Adam Kaplan is a Certified EOS Implementer in Royal Oak, Michigan. He helps business owners and leadership teams build a clear system to run their companies and grow. He has used EOS since 2014. He was COO and Integrator at a dental services firm that sold at a 10x multiple. He also started his own executive search firm. He works with clients in healthcare and professional services.
Adrian Dayton
Adrian Dayton is a business coach and certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs grow their companies and turn employees into leaders. He founded and sold two companies, including the software company Clearview Social. He chairs the EO Accelerator for the State of Utah, where he coaches young companies toward $1MM in annual revenue. He also helps larger companies set a clear vision, use EOS tools, and get ready to sell. He is based in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
Alan Melton
Alan Melton is a business coach who helps small business owners make more profit, work fewer hours, and build companies that run without them. He has coached over 1,100 owners, from startups to firms with 100+ employees. He started his own business at 26 and grew it from 2 to 130 employees. It reached $8.5 million in revenue before he sold it to a publicly-held company. He works from South Carolina.
Allen Cobb
Allen Cobb is an EOS Implementer who helps business leadership teams align priorities, run with discipline, and get better results. He has co-founded four companies and spent over ten years as an Integrator before becoming an implementer. He has run on EOS since 2011. He has led more than 700 sessions with over 50 companies. He serves clients in Raleigh, Greensboro, and Wilmington, North Carolina.
Andrew Andrews-Ramirez
Andrew Andrews-Ramirez is a Certified EOS Implementer in Irvine, California. He helps business leaders get their teams aligned, focused, and accountable using the EOS process. He served 9.5 years in the military, including a combat deployment to Afghanistan, and later worked at Accenture with Fortune 100 clients. He has held several C-suite roles. As an active angel investor, he also helps clients find businesses to acquire.
Andrew LeMoine
Andrew LeMoine is an Expert EOS Implementer in Edmonton, Alberta. He helps entrepreneurial leadership teams across Canada put the Entrepreneurial Operating System to work in their companies. He has more than 20 years in business and finance, and he is a Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Investment Manager. He has owned and invested in start-ups and established companies. He also advises founders on investment, succession and strategic planning.
Andrew Stevens
Andrew Stevens is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams grow using the EOS framework, which he calls Traction. He works from Horsham, England. His career began as a musician in the British Army. He then spent 25 years building, scaling, and exiting businesses. He also co-owns and hosts the EOS European Conference, and he gives keynotes and workshops for leaders.
Andrew W. Halliday
Andrew W. Halliday is a Professional EOS Implementer who helps leadership teams of entrepreneurial businesses set a clear vision, lead better, and build discipline and accountability. He is a lawyer and former financial advisor. At age 30 he became head of a financial services company with 30 employees. His team grew revenues and profits 7X, and he later sold the company. He now works from Albany, New York.
Angela Adams
Angela Adams is a consultant who helps independent insurance agency owners run and grow their agencies. She started in agency accounting in 1985 and later worked as an agency owner and chief financial officer. She founded her firm in 2001 and now leads a team of 100+ people. The firm covers accounting, operations, HR, marketing, system training, and coaching for producers and life insurance sales.
Ari Jason
Ari Jason is the founder of Mind Shift, a strategic advisory and coaching firm for business owners, executives and team leaders. He coaches on succession, exit and growth. He worked as COO of a consumer goods company that grew from $5M to $150M in 14 years. He has more than 1,800 coaching hours and over 20 years of experience across the US, UK and Middle East. He is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Ashod Donikian
Ashod Donikian is a startup advisor who helps early-stage founders with fundraising, hiring, product strategy, and selling their company. He is a 3x founder and has served as CEO and technical founder. His first company grew out of his robotics PhD. He raised $3.7M for it, secured patents, and led acquisition talks. He also co-founded a Web3 ad startup that raised $4M. His focus is deep-tech founders.
Barry Fay
Barry Fay is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams. He works with companies facing problems with people, profitability, growth or work-life balance. Barry has run multiple companies and consulted to others. He is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor and a YPO member since 2000. He also gives keynotes and workshops. His goal is to improve the lives of over 10,000 employees in the next 10 years.
Benjamin Berman
Benjamin Berman is an Expert EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs improve strategy, execution, and results using the Entrepreneurial Operating System. He has worked with 75+ high-growth companies in 750+ sessions. More than a dozen of his clients have sold their businesses. Others now run with self-managing operations. Before he became an implementer, Ben was a serial operator who built and exited companies. He works from Boca Raton, Florida.
Bill Brennan
Bill Brennan is a Professional EOS Implementer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He helps founders and entrepreneurial companies strengthen their leadership teams and simplify how they run. Bill is a five-time entrepreneur. He used EOS in his own company, and revenue and profit both grew 10x over 4 years. A strategic buyer then purchased the business. Now he guides other owners through the same system.
Billy Lewis
Billy Lewis is a Professional EOS Implementer in Erie, Pennsylvania. He helps business owners and leadership teams get aligned, stay accountable, and gain traction. He founded North Coast Processing at 24 and grew it to $50 million in revenue. He sold it to TreeHouse Foods at 39, then ran a $500 million business unit there. He later built a restaurant group and bought a commercial kitchen company.
Bola Audena
Bola Audena is a business coach and advisor who helps founders and CEOs grow their companies. She is the CEO and Managing Partner of MBA Growth Partners in Maryland. She has more than 20 years of experience in growth, transformation and organizational development. She has guided hundreds of entrepreneurs, especially women and minority-owned businesses. She also supports clients through mergers, acquisitions and business exits.
Brad Whitehead
Brad Whitehead is an EOS Implementer and exit planning advisor who helps service-based company owners grow the value of their business. He works with companies that earn $3M to $30M in revenue. Brad scaled his own company to $15M across Colorado's resort markets. He later served as COO of a $75M national firm. He has more than 30 years of leadership experience and works from Vail and Aspen.
Catherine Juon
Catherine Juon is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams gain focus, accountability and results. She is a former Integrator of a marketing agency and wrote the book Internet Marketing Start-to-Finish. She co-founded an organization that brings EOS to under-resourced communities in South Africa. She is also an endurance athlete who finished the Louisville Ironman 12 weeks after a double mastectomy. Clients include owners in Michigan and South Africa.
Chris Davies
Chris Davies is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams in Geelong, Victoria. He works with CEOs who want more control, faster growth and better profit. Chris led a professional services firm of 40+ people for over 20 years. He co-founded it, went through a partnership buy-out and a turn-around, and then sold it. He ran EOS in his own company for almost a decade before he began guiding others.
Chris McIntire
Chris McIntire is a business coach and consultant who helps small and mid-sized business owners grow and build value. He founded 7th Gear Coaching in Edmond, Oklahoma. He has owned five businesses and completed four negotiated buyouts. His career began in door-to-door book sales, and he started his first company in 1995. He teaches a model called the 7 Gears, which covers the core parts of a business. He also trains owners and teams in sales.
Codie Sanchez
Codie Sanchez runs Contrarian Thinking, a community and advisory firm that helps people buy and grow small businesses. He started with one small business and built a portfolio with 9 figures in revenue and dozens of companies. Now he leads small cohorts of business buyers, operators and builders. Each group meets weekly to work on real deals. Members are vetted, and only a fraction get into a circle. The firm is based in Austin, Texas.
Craig Ceccanti
Craig Ceccanti is an EOS Implementer who helps founder-led leadership teams get past the ceiling that slows their growth. He built one Houston studio into more than 150 locations across North America, then exited. He has run EOS inside five companies and served as President and COO of a global consulting firm. He has worked as both the Visionary and the Integrator. He is also a Certified Exit Planning Advisor and is based in Sugar Land, Texas.
Curtis Rippee
Curtis Rippee is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurial leaders run their businesses with vision, discipline, accountability, and team health. He works from McKinney and Frisco, Texas. He has started or helped start five companies, including a fractional CFO firm, and sold one to a private equity firm after doubling its size with EOS. He has implemented EOS for more than 30 companies across many industries, including non-profits.
Dale Williams
Dale Williams is an EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams get more focus, accountability and results. He has 40 years of entrepreneurship, management, financial and operating experience. He is a former CEO who worked up through manufacturing and consumer products companies. He was part of the team that took a Fortune 1000 company through a NYSE public offering. He has guided over 80 businesses through EOS and serves clients in South Carolina.
Dana Staszkiewicz
Dana Staszkiewicz is a business consultant at Opus & Golds Group. He works with his brother Chuck to help small and family business owners grow and prepare for a sale or handoff. The two turned around and sold their own family business. That business grew from $12M to $20M in under 4 years and went from a $350,000 loss to 14% profit. They now teach the methods they used, including weekly accountability calls.
Darin Williamson
Darin Williamson is a Professional EOS Implementer in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Darin helps entrepreneurs and leadership teams fix root problems in their companies using the Entrepreneurial Operating System. Darin founded and ran several start-up companies and took them to successful sales and exits. Darin used EOS in Darin's own businesses before Darin became an implementer. Darin's coaching puts a strong focus on building company culture.
David Robinson
David Robinson is an EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams build companies that run well and can be sold. He was the first EOS Implementer in Saskatchewan. Before this, he worked in his family's commercial glazing company, starting on the shop floor. He used EOS there for five years, then left to help other leaders use it. He is also a Certified Exit Planning Advisor and works with teams in Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg.
Davis & Cole, L.L.P.
Davis & Cole, L.L.P. is a CPA firm that offers business coaching and consulting to dental practice owners. The two partners, Michael Lance Davis and Thomas Michael Cole, combine accounting with practice management. The team has almost fifty years of dental industry experience. They work with general dentists and specialists at any stage, from opening a practice to selling it. They serve dozens of dental offices around the country.
Derrick Smith
Derrick Smith is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches business owners and leadership teams. He has founded 5 companies and acquired 15 family owned businesses. He has run his own companies on EOS since 2015. At his first acquisition, he helped build a cohesive leadership team, double sales and profit, and exit the business. He focuses on family owned businesses and companies with multiple divisions or locations. His style is direct and encouraging.
Don Maranca
Don Maranca is an EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs and their leadership teams run healthier businesses. He is based in San Antonio, Texas. He started in Fortune 500 companies, then bought a The Alternative Board franchise in 2010 and worked with more than 100 businesses. He found EOS in 2015 and is one of the first 112 EOS Implementers worldwide. His work centers on a shared vision, accountability and growth.
Ed Poll
Ed Poll is a coach and consultant for lawyers and law firms. He helps sole practitioners, managing partners, executive directors and financial directors grow revenue and cut stress. Ed practiced law for 25 years and served as Chief Operating Officer of a mid-size firm before he became a consultant. He created The Business of Law® and wrote The Profitable Law Office Handbook. He also helps lawyers buy, sell or move a practice.
Elise Holtzman
Elise Holtzman is the founder of The Lawyer's Edge. She coaches lawyers and law firms on business development and leadership. She is a former attorney at Am Law 100 firms and holds a JD from Columbia Law School. Since 2008 she has worked only with lawyers. She helps them build books of business, step into roles like managing partner, and improve teamwork. Her signature group program is called Lawyers Making Rain.
Erik Madsen
Erik Madsen is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams run their companies with the Entrepreneurial Operating System. He has 30 years of business experience. He spent 17 years coaching, facilitating and training small businesses. Then he co-built a health care technology company, ran it on EOS for five years, and exited. He serves clients in Idaho Falls and Twin Falls, Idaho, and Logan, Utah.
Erik Perkins
Erik Perkins is an EOS Implementer who works with business owners and leadership teams. He has worked with over 100 teams and led over 1000 sessions. He was a client of EOS for 10 years before that. He grew and sold two companies as an Integrator. One of them, Image One Corporation, is featured in the book Traction. He is based in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
Evan Goodman
Evan Goodman is a business coach and mentor in Sydney. He helps owners of small and medium businesses, family businesses, and their leaders. He started four businesses over 30 years and sold them all. His last one grew into a national company and sold in 2009. Since then he has coached hundreds of owners, leaders and teams. He holds a Masters in Business Coaching. He meets clients in Sydney or on Zoom.
Evan J. Blumenthal
Evan J. Blumenthal is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs and business owners grow their companies. He also works as a Certified Outgrow Advisor and a professional speaker. He is a fifth generation family business owner who sold his company. He also has over 25 years of experience with Walmart. He started using EOS in his own family business in 2016. He works from Cedarhurst, New York.
Jared Zemp
Jared Zemp is an advisor who helps entrepreneurs raise a search fund and buy small businesses. He has coached more than 100 search fund and ETA clients. His own search fund bought or launched 25 companies over 8 years. He started with a college algebra bootcamp that grew to three locations, then used the profits and bundled student loans to buy over a dozen companies. He also taught college entrepreneurship for 10 years and is a partner at Bearspaw.
Jason Berger
Jason Berger is a Certified EOS Implementer who works with business owners and their leadership teams. He is an entrepreneur first, with more than 30 years of starting, buying, growing and leading companies. He founded 12 entrepreneurial companies and served as President of EO Iowa. He teaches EOS in its pure form and starts with where each company is today. He serves clients in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska.
Jason McCullough
Jason McCullough is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurial leaders get clarity and line up their teams. He started a business at 25 and learned what it costs to lead without process. Later he was part of a leadership team that put EOS in place, and profit grew and the team got healthier. He now guides owners through growth and transition plans from Detroit and Traverse City, Michigan.
Jay Tankersley
Jay Tankersley is an Expert EOS Implementer who helps founder-led leadership teams build a clear, disciplined way to run their companies. He works with Meritage and has led over 600 Full Day Sessions. He has put EOS into over 20 ETA companies, and 6 of them reached meaningful liquidity events. He also co-founded TF Investors, a growth equity fund that backs companies using EOS. He is based in Vail, Colorado.
Jeanette Tuason
Jeanette Tuason is a Professional EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs and their leadership teams run stronger companies. She has built businesses for over 27 years in motorsports, event management, real estate and hospitality. She has used EOS in her own companies for six years. Her work covers the Philippines, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Jeff Samford
Jeff Samford is a business coach who helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and executives get better results. He runs Ascend Business Coaching in Richmond, Virginia, and works with clients in all 50 states. He has coached since 1990 and held leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies. He also serves as a fractional COO or CEO. Three of his clients sold their businesses in the past 4 years.
Jim Jelinek
Jim Jelinek is a certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and their leadership teams run their companies in a more organized way. He has led EOS work for over 30 businesses. Before coaching, he was CEO of a family-owned manufacturing company. He grew its revenue from $3 million to $12 million and then sold it for over $30 million. He works from Dalton, Ohio.
Joe DiPenta
Joe DiPenta is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams get clear on their structure and grow. He is a former NHL player who won a Stanley Cup. He later worked as a CEO, VP and Executive Director. He led four business unit turnarounds in nonprofit healthcare. He has run EOS for more than 45 organizations in many industries, and he works from Santa Ana and San Francisco, California.
Joe Sanok
Joe Sanok is a private practice consultant who helps counselors and therapists start, grow, and scale their practices. He started Practice of the Practice in 2012 to write about business and marketing for counselors. He sold his own counseling practice in 2019. He is a keynote and TEDx speaker and hosts a podcast for counselors. He also wrote the book Thursday is the New Friday.
Jonathan B Smith
Jonathan B Smith is an Expert EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs build strong leadership teams and businesses that run without them. He has worked with more than 150 growth-minded companies in over 1,500 sessions on strategy, execution and results. Since 2013, 50 of his clients have exited their businesses. He also trains leaders in negotiation with The Black Swan Group and co-wrote the book Fight Less, Win More.
Julia Langkraehr
Julia Langkraehr is an EOS Implementer who helps leadership teams get clear, get aligned and run stronger businesses that do not depend on their owners. She has led more than 100 EOS implementations. Before this, she built three multi-million-pound retail businesses across the UK, Germany and Russia, and grew one to $40m. She went through an IPO, a buy-back and a trade sale. She was trained personally by Gino Wickman, the creator of EOS.
Kirsten Ross Vogel
Kirsten Ross Vogel is a business and communication coach who helps owners build business value. She teaches leadership, communication, focus and selection strategies. She has worked with leaders in private companies, family businesses and non-profits for more than 30 years. She wrote two leadership books, Defeat Team Drama Now and From People Problems to Productivity. She is CEO of Focus Forward Coaching and works from Michigan.
Kyle Danner
Kyle Danner is a Certified EOS Implementer in Kansas City, Missouri. He helps business owners, family business leaders and their advisors grow, transition or exit their companies. Before coaching, he helped his family's printing company grow from $2 million to $18 million in revenue and become the fifth-largest in Kansas City. He also holds a counseling degree and the CEPA exit planning credential. He has led more than 400 meetings and workshops.
Marshall Welch
Marshall Welch is a Certified EOS Implementer in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He helps entrepreneurial leaders and their teams clarify their vision and get better results. He has 30 years of experience in organic growth and growth through acquisition. He is an entrepreneur, investor, patent holder and board member who has scaled and exited businesses. He also has experience with financing, venture capital, and business turnarounds.
Martin Quinn
Martin Quinn is a Certified EOS Implementer in Sydney who helps business owners and leadership teams set a clear vision and get results against it. He spent 7 years as a Director in the International Strategic Marketing Group at The Coca-Cola Company. He then ran a Communications Group and started BrandSpace at Westfield, which grew into Australia's largest retail media business. He was in the first group of EOS Implementers in Australia and New Zealand.
Matthew Todd
Matthew Todd is an EOS Implementer and exit planning advisor in Yacolt, Washington. He helps small and mid-sized business owners run their companies with clear strategy and get what they want from the business. Before coaching, he spent over 38 years in the HVAC industry. He helped a design/build mechanical firm grow from 17 people to 75. He also works as a Business as Mission coach and mentor.
Michael Richman
Michael Richman is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches business owners and their teams. He is a fourth-generation entrepreneur. He ran a manufacturing and construction company that served brands like Panda Express and Four Seasons Hotels. After he put EOS in place, revenue rose 50% and EBITDA rose 75%, and he sold the company. He also serves as a board member, mentor and moderator with Entrepreneurs' Organization LA.
Ned Tomasevic
Ned Tomasevic is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches business owners and leadership teams in San Francisco. He is a former private equity backed CEO who built and sold businesses using EOS. He has more than 20 years in entrepreneurship. He serves on for-profit and non-profit boards and is an active YPO member. He helps teams gain clarity and focus, and grow one quarter at a time.
Neil McLean
Neil McLean is an Expert EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams run better companies using the Entrepreneurial Operating System. He has coached more than 100 leadership teams and led over 1000 sessions. He is a former Vistage Chair and a former U.S. Air Force officer. He works mostly with founder-led and family-owned businesses, and has deep experience with contractors and construction companies in the Carolinas.
Philip Pfeifer
Philip Pfeifer is an EOS Implementer who guides entrepreneurs and leadership teams in Harpenden and St Albans, England. He is in his 7th year and has run over 400 sessions with entrepreneurial companies. He is a fifth-generation entrepreneur who built a company and sold it. He has hired and led hundreds of employees. His clients get unlimited phone access to him between sessions.
Pieter D. Winne
Pieter D. Winne is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams get clarity and grow. He is a U.S. Army Ranger veteran who served in the 75th Ranger Regiment. He led leadership development at a company that grew from $25 million to $130 million in revenue over nine years. He now works with more than 50 leadership teams, with over 400 sessions, from his base in Michigan.
Renae Luketic
Renae Luketic is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps leadership teams get clear, hold each other accountable, and gain traction. She works with founder-led businesses, nonprofits, ESOPs, private equity-backed firms, and growing companies in transition. She is a former EOS Integrator and Integrator Coach. She focuses on remote, hybrid, and multi-location teams. She is based in Tennessee and works with teams across the United States.
Samantha Williams
Samantha Williams is a Professional EOS Implementer who helps leadership teams at small and mid-sized businesses in the UK and Middle East. She also chairs a Vistage group in the UAE. Before coaching, she spent over two decades building and scaling companies. She founded Rush Trampoline Parks and Bomimo, and she worked in investment banking. She is based in the UAE and works with teams to bring structure, accountability and clarity.
Sean McDermott
Sean McDermott is an EOS Implementer in Downers Grove, Illinois. He helps business owners and their leadership teams build a strong company by putting EOS in place. He has over 30 years in entrepreneurial business. He spent 12 years helping small and middle-market companies find growth capital. He then co-owned and ran two companies as President, a start-up and a turnaround, and exited both. He has coached EOS implementation since 2015.
Seth Shaner
Seth Shaner is a search fund and ETA advisor who helps aspiring entrepreneurs find, fund and run a business they buy. He is the CEO of CRU, a franchised nightlife chain with 15 locations in 5 states. He was a Vice President at GE Capital and President of Sunrise Restaurants. He has worked in venture capital, private equity and strategy consulting. He has coached 18 people, including more than 10 search fund and ETA clients.
Sherri Noxel
Sherri Noxel is a family business advisor and coach who helps owners plan succession and hold hard family conversations. She led the family business education program at Oregon State University for more than a decade. Her senior seminar prepared more than 100 next generation leaders. She also works with estate attorneys and business advisors. Her 12-week program, Speaking of Succession, gives owners a clear place to start planning.
Simon Vella
Simon Vella is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs improve their businesses and leadership teams. He spent more than 20 years in senior leadership roles in the ICT industry. He used EOS to grow the IT service provider he led from 24 to 50 employees and double its financial results. He then exited the business by moving in a new top management team. In 2021 he started a coaching firm with Liam Pace. He is based in Milan, Italy, and Malta.
Stacy Nehring
Stacy Nehring is a Professional EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs and leadership teams run stronger businesses. She spent 15 years as an entrepreneur, including more than 10 years in a family business. She used EOS in her own company, doubled revenue, and sold it to private equity. She works from Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Vancouver. She also speaks at entrepreneurial groups and leadership conferences.
Stu Wolff
Stu Wolff is an Expert EOS Implementer and business coach who helps entrepreneurs and their leadership teams. He works from Southfield, Michigan. Before coaching, he built The Wolff Group, a sales and marketing agency, from 42 employees to 165 and from $140 million to over $1 billion in managed sales. He sold it in 2013. He has worked as an EOS Implementer for 9 years, and his Core Value Speech appears in the book Traction.
TC North
TC North, PhD is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurial leadership teams build strong companies. He also coaches leaders through the mental and emotional side of running a business. He started his career teaching elite athletes mental skills, including 31 Olympians and a pro sports team. For over 20 years he has applied that work to entrepreneurs. He is a bestselling leadership author and works from Colorado.
TK Herman
TK Herman is an EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams build companies that run without them. He co-founded four companies in software consulting, SaaS, and family entertainment, and he personally led all four exits. Those companies employed more than 400 people and created over $50 million in enterprise value. He has 28 years in the CEO seat and fifteen years of Sandler training. He works from Fort Wayne, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee.
Todd Bailey
Todd Bailey is an EOS Implementer in Cary, North Carolina. He helps business owners and leadership teams find root problems, lead better, and run their companies with the EOS system. He spent 17 years in pastoral ministry and started two churches. He then built a financial advisory practice into a multi-advisor firm. He used EOS there for 6 years and doubled its assets under management. He sold the firm in 2023.
Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith is a Certified EOS Implementer in Birmingham, Michigan. He helps leadership teams and business owners run their companies on EOS and get ready for an exit. He has 28+ years of EOS experience and spent 11+ years on the EOS Leadership Team. He created the Step by Step Exit system and wrote the book Exit Ready. He has also made 6 successful entrepreneurial exits of his own.
Tyler Wackman
Tyler Wackman is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps owners of privately-held businesses through acquisition, family succession, and growth ceilings. He has served as CEO of 3 manufacturing companies with 5 to 85 employees. He has also been part of $180M+ in deals as an investor and as a PE-backed operator. Using EOS at one of his own companies led to a strategic acquisition with a 4x return on invested capital. He works in South Florida.
Vic Dorsen
Vic Dorsen is a business advisor and coach who works with owners of mid-sized manufacturing and trading companies in Australia. He leads The Collaborative Group. His work covers growth, profit, and getting a business ready for sale. He brings over 45 years of international experience. He was Vice President Asia Pacific at Esselte, with $600 million in regional sales. He also founded ADEPT, which became Europe's largest packaging consultancy.
Vic Dorsen
Vic Dorsen is a manufacturing business coach and advisor in Sydney. He works with owners of mid-sized manufacturing and trading companies. His career spans more than 45 years. He was Vice President Asia Pacific at Esselte, where he oversaw 11 countries and 7 factories. He also founded ADEPT and sold it after it grew into Europe's largest packaging consultancy. Today he helps owners grow, raise profit, and prepare to sell.
Wayne Smith
Wayne Smith is a Certified EOS Implementer who works with founders, family business leaders and family offices across Asia and ASEAN. He spent 25 years as an entrepreneur and CEO before moving into implementation. He has delivered more than 350 EOS sessions to leadership teams in Asia and the Pacific. His practice leans more and more toward family businesses working through succession and professionalisation. He is based in Kuala Lumpur.
Amy Morin
Amy Morin helps business owners build companies that run without them and grow in value before they sell. She is a Certified EOS Implementer and Certified Exit Planning Advisor based in Tucson, Arizona. She co-founded a construction company in 1986, grew it to $40M in revenue across multiple states, and sold it. She later turned around a Montana fly-fishing resort and sold that too. She teaches the shift from operator to owner.
Beckie Hayes
Beckie Hayes is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches business owners and leadership teams at small and mid-sized companies. She has 10 years of experience with EOS. Before that, she was the Integrator at an engineering staffing firm that grew from $6M to $25M in revenue. She has a special interest in family-owned businesses, generational transfers and exit planning. She works from Downers Grove, Illinois.
Carmen D'Ambrosio
Carmen D'Ambrosio is a Certified EOS Implementer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She helps leadership teams get clear on their goals and build more traction in the business with simple tools. She has founded, grown and sold 6 companies. Her own construction company grew to 150 people in 9 years. After adopting EOS, it saw a 35% rise in revenue before she sold to a private equity firm. She now guides other entrepreneurs.
Chris Wareham
Chris Wareham is a Professional EOS Implementer in London who helps founder-led small and mid-sized businesses. He spent fifteen years in marketing operations and became Managing Director and shareholder of a specialist retail experience agency. Using EOS, he doubled that business in four years and sold it in 2024. Now he guides leadership teams across the UK toward clarity, accountability and traction, drawing on his time running a company himself.
Dan Murray
Dan Murray is a business coach, advisor and mentor for service business owners, with a focus on disaster restoration companies. He helps owners raise profits and build companies that can be sold or handed down. He finds the cash flow and operations problems that hold growth back. He also works on business valuation, buying and selling companies, and ownership transitions. He holds the Certified Restorer and Certified Value Builder titles.
Debbie King
Debbie King is a business coach who helps founders fix their relationship with their company. She built a data analytics services company over 18 years, then sold it in a smooth exit. Her Loving Your Business approach treats the company as an asset and a partner, not an enemy. She works with founders who feel stuck, tired, or ready to walk away, even when the numbers look good.
Frank Deno
Frank Deno is an executive and business coach in Albany, New York. He helps independent financial advisors and RIA owners cut chaos, lead better, and build stronger firms. He is an RIA owner himself, so he knows the gap between building a book of business and running a high-value firm. He is a former MIT product manager and a Villanova Six Sigma Black Belt. His work centers on moving owners into the CEO seat.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Kaplan | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Adrian Dayton | Scaling and growth and Startups and founders | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Alan Melton | Scaling and growth and Sales | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Allen Cobb | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Andrew Andrews-Ramirez | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Andrew LeMoine | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $135 to $250 an hour |
| Andrew Stevens | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $135 to $250 an hour |
| Andrew W. Halliday | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $250 an hour |
| Angela Adams | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Ari Jason | Scaling and growth and Exit planning and succession | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Ashod Donikian | Startups and founders and Sales | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Barry Fay | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Benjamin Berman | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Bill Brennan | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Billy Lewis | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $300 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a business coach for exit planning and succession cost?
Most business coaches charge $200 to $325 per hour or session.
What else do these business coaches help with?
Common focus areas include scaling and growth, operations and systems, leadership and team building and startups and founders.
Prices and research
- Are Business Coaches Worth It?
- Business Coach Cost per Hour
- Business Coach vs Consultant vs Mentor
- Coaching Packages and Prices: Hourly vs Monthly
- Coaching Rates Per Hour by Coach Type
- Coaching vs Therapy: Cost and Key Differences
- Do Certified Coaches Charge More?
- Executive Functioning Coach Cost
- How Many Coaches Are There?
- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.