Because your success today doesn’t protect you from the Five D’s tomorrow. Each year you have an 80% chance of experiencing one of these over the next sixty months:

5 D’s: Death, Disability, Divorce, Disagreement, and Distress

While unpleasant to think about, these 5 D’s cause owners to be forced out of their business on someone else’s timeframe, rather than theirs. They can cause economic hardship for the business, and value destruction.

The fix for this is simple: Preparation. Begin with the end in mind, such as by employing the Exitology – Grow to Exit strategy. As part of your Value Acceleration journey, we work with the owners and their advisors to de-risk the business in the unfortunate event of one of the above D’s occurring.