We designed the Exit Architect® Academy features to help you identify and document your exit strategy. At your own pace, you can expand your knowledge about what it takes to properly exit your business, maximize the value of your business, and create a well-defined exit plan for you and your business. We support your journey by providing a professional exit planner to assist you in your journey. Key Academy features include:
Separate Curriculum
We arranged our content into six specific curricula, so that you can access our materials based on your particular needs.
- All About Exit Planning
- Growing Your Business and Increasing Your Business Value
- Estate Planning, Wealth Management and Tax Minimization
- How to Sell Your Business
- How to Transition Your Business to Internal Owners or Family Members
- Key General Management Concepts
Course Content Academy Features
Our courses are designed with a mixture of videos, presentations, infographics, and other text and html content. This content is supplemented with questionnaires and surveys to help you clarify your exit planning goals, strategies and planned actions.
With over 90 videos and over 375 educational components, the Academy provides a wide variety of approaches to provide exit planning concepts and ideas.
Readiness Surveys
We provide two different survey methods to help you determine how ready you and your business are to exit. We provide tools developed by The Exit Planning Institute and The ValueBuilder System that help you score Owner Readiness, Business Readiness and Business Attractiveness.
ValueBuilder Score
We provide you a link to complete a private questionnaire and received a comprehensive report on the readiness and value of your business that presents how you rate your business on the eight proven drivers of business value.
Active Calculation Spreadsheets
We provide active spreadsheets that help you determine the following:
- The net worth of your estate, including the potential value of your business
- The adjusted EBITDA of your business
- The business growth impact of your selecting a variety of business growth strategies
- Your projected Return on Investment from exit planning
- The readiness of yourself and your business to exit
- The attractiveness of your business to prospective buyers
- Your ability to fund your projected lifestyle upon retirement.
ValueBuilder Value Drivers
We present each of the eight proven value drivers developed by John Warrilow and The ValueBuilder System with a series of videos, supporting information and exercises to help you identify which of these eight value drivers can help you increase the value of your business.
Podcasts on Selling Your Business
We provide you with a series of podcasts that provided important information and tips on how to sell your business.
Altogether these podcasts provide case studies on other business owners and how they dealt with their exit planning experiences.
Questionnaires and Surveys
We present you with a series of questionnaires and surveys to help you clarify and document a variety of concepts related to exit planning.
By documenting your thoughts and strategies, you help your guide better understand where you are on your exit journey and what academy materials best match your needs.
Note Taking Capability
In addition, we provide you the capability to upload notes while you are going through our courses. As a result, you can document your thoughts, reactions and questions and make them available for review.
File Upload and Storage Capability Features
We provide an upload function where you can upload and store your files that relate to exit planning.