I you are a business owner age 50+, this book could save your business, your wealth and your life. You will learn "Transition Thinking" to build a "Dream Team" of advisors, and learn to create a new, dynamic life of meaning an purpose, "beyond the business".

3. What other experts are saying about Finding Your New Owner:
“In my work as an Executive/Leadership Coach, I have become keenly aware of how unprepared most
business owners are regarding life after transitioning out of their business. This book gives the reader a
practical, step-by-step approach about how to manage the transition process both emotionally and
professionally. The exercises will help the business owner conceptualize the steps needed to have a
satisfying and financially secure life moving forward.”
--Linda Cohan, MSW, CSC, Executive/Leadership Coach
“In Finding Your New Owner, Jack Beauregard shares with sensitivity and unique insight the steps required
for transitioning yourself away from your business. For those who are struggling with what to do next
with their life, Jack offers a wealth of ideas and a step-by-step approach to figuring it out and making it
happen. Every boomer business owner should read this book!”
--Wayne Vanwyck, Founder and CEO, The Achievement Centre International
and author of The Business Transition Crisis: Plan Your Succession Now
and Beat the Biggest Business Selloff in History
“Finding Your New Owner is a must-read for any business owner and his or her spouse or significant other.
The book makes sense and is a call to action. I will certainly be recommending it to my clients.”
--Jerry Socol, Founder of The Socol Group, five-time CEO including a
$900 million public company
“This book helps business owners ask the tough questions and forces them to work ON their business,
not just IN it. A great read with long-term impact!”
--Paige Arnof-Fenn, Founder and CEO, Mavens & Moguls

4. © 2011 by Jack Beauregard
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including
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used in reviews of this book.
“The Platinum YearsSM” is a federally registered Service Mark of the Successful Transition Planning Institute.
Published by:
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Successful Transition Planning Institute
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www.successfultransitionplanning.com
Publisher’s Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Beauregard, Jack
Finding Your New Owner: For Your Business, For Your Life / Jack Beauregard / Cambridge MA / STPI Press, 2011.
p.;cm.
ISBN 978-0-9836311-1-8
ISBN 978-0-9836311-0-1
1. Sale of business enterprises. 2. Baby boom generation -- Retirement. 3. Retirement planning.
4. Family-owned business enterprises. 5. Self-realization. I. Title.
Printed in the United States of America.

5. Contents
iii Acknowledgements
PART I Who Wants To Retire? Not Me
2 Chapter 1
Why You Don’t Want to Think about Leaving Your
Company
Is your company your life? Helping you discover Clarity, Opportunity, Meaning and
Purpose. New possibilities for Baby Boomer business owners. The Transition Process
can be painful, but also rewarding. Expanding your thinking about your personal and
business future
19 Chapter 2
Fifteen Ways to Leave Your Company Unsuccessfully –
and How to Avoid Them
Stories about failed transitions. Defining a Successful Transition. How to leave your
company successfully.
33 Chapter 3
The Head and Heart of an Owner: A Strategic Approach
to Creating a New Future for Your Business and Yourself
The emotional side of the Transition Process. The intellectual side of the Transition
Process. Creating a strategic Transition Plan that includes the Head and Heart aspects of
the Transition Process. Why you need to plan. You are not alone: Working with
Transition Advisors. Four key outcomes from your advisory team.
PART II How To Create A New Future You Can’t Wait To Live
51 Chapter 4
From Being CEO of Your Company to Becoming CEO of
Your Life
Expanding your thinking about your future. A question of your identity. The identity
exercise. Expanding your thinking about whom you are and who you can become.
60 Chapter 5
It’s Not “Retirement,” It’s “The Platinum YearsSM” – a
New Stage of Active Life for Baby Boomers
What comes before the “golden years”? How Boomers are re-defining retirement. New
discoveries about aging and health. Your mental and emotional well being affects your
physical health. A new paradigm for your Platinum YearsSM

6. 67 Chapter 6
Why Your Personal Transition Plan Is the Essential First
Step for a Successful Business Transition
Why personal transition plan comes first. Create your personal transition plan. Create
your business transition plan. Implement your business transition plan. Move on to
your new life! Your personal transition goals. When do you plan to leave? Estate and Tax
Planning. Determining your future financial needs. Designing a comprehensive vision of
your personal future: envisioning ten aspects of your future lifestyle. Your ten decisions
of your future life
PART III How To Create A Successful Business Transition That Will
Bring You A New Life Of Meaning And Purpose
90 Chapter 7
Thinking Like a CEO
Can your company run successfully without you? Thinking about your ideal new owner.
Thinking the CEO of your new life: Process Goals and outcome goals. Achieving your
Transition Goals.
99 Chapter 8
Expanding Your Thinking about the Transition Process
Your Business Transition Strategic plan. You are not alone: The business transition
advisors who can help you create a successful transition process. An integrated view of
the Transition Process: your personal transition process, your personal financial process,
your business transition process, your business continuation process. How the owners
should be involved in creating and implementing your Business Transition Strategic Plan
111 Chapter 9
Expanding Your Thinking about Your Options for New
Ownership
Seven options for new ownership: Feasibility of each. Your Personal Outcome Goals.
Financial Transition goal. Outcome goals for your company. Legacy goals. How much is
your company worth? How will you transition out of your company? Deciding the best
new Owner. Desiging your Business Transition goals.
137 Chapter 10
Expanding Your Thinking about the Future of Your
Company
15 questions to help you accomplish the process goals essential to your business
transition. Record-keeping. Business Valuation and Gap. Increasing the value of your
company. Business Continuity Plan. New-Owner Readiness. Motivating Employees to
support the plan. Continuing your legacy. Negotiating the deal.

7. 153 Chapter 11
Your Collaborative “Dream Team”: Working Together to
Help You Achieve Your Goals
Who should help you create and implement your business transition strategic plan?
Your Transition Advisory Team: the four key types of advisors. Creating your
collaborative “Dream Team” of advisors. Choosing a professional coordinator of your
“Dream Team”. A Chief Transition Officer (CTrO). How Transactional Advisors and
Transition Planning Consultants work together. Finding the Transition Advisors for your
Dream Team.
172 Chapter 12
Finding Your New Owner: A Head and Heart Approach
My storey: how and why my Transition Planning programs came to be. Transition
Planning Consultants and STPI’s Integrative Transition Planning program.
182 Additional Resource
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