Exit Coach Radio

What causes conflict in a family business, and how can owners address it before it damages the company or the relationships behind it? In this episode of Exit Coach Radio, Bill Black talks with Vince Mastrovito, owner of Prometis Partners Inc., about the most common sources of family business conflict and the practical steps leaders can take to manage those challenges effectively. This conversation explores how communication breakdowns, unclear roles, succession issues, and competing expectations can create tension inside a family-owned company. Vince shares insights that can help business owners strengthen alignment, improve decision-making, and protect both business continuity and family relationships. Topics include: family business conflict succession planning communication and leadership business coaching exit planning for family-owned companies Listen for more conversations on leadership, growth, succession, and exit planning through Exit Coach Radio. Join Bill Black for his weekly humor co

              What does it take to build a company culture that improves performance and lasts through change? In this episode of Exit Coach Radio, Bill Black talks with Dr. Kenneth Majer, author, speaker, and consultant, about how values-driven leadership can strengthen corporate culture, improve organizational alignment, and help companies outperform their competition. Ken shares insights from more than 30 years of working with businesses of all sizes on change management, communication, leadership development, and management training. This conversation is especially valuable for business owners, executives, and leadership teams focused on sustainable growth, succession, and long-term enterprise value. Topics include: values-driven culture leadership alignment change management organizational performance business strategy and growth Learn more about Ken Majer: Website: www.kenmajer.com Listen for more conversations on leadership, growth, succession, and exit planning through Exit Coach Radio. J

Mike Koenigs is an unemployable serial entrepreneur with a high-school education whose obsession with taking apart gadgets to figure out their inner workings started as soon as he could crawl. He quickly learned he has the attention span of a bag of gnats on amphetamines. His curiosity in tech, psychology, entertainment, storytelling, entrepreneurship, marketing, and spirit has taken him to Uganda where he witnessed a woman dying of AIDS in a mud hut to the great pyramid in Egypt where he chanted in the king’s sarcophagus with Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer. He has played the didgeridoo in an IMAX movie, produced a feature film, started and sold five businesses from scratch, survived stage 3A colorectal cancer, and created a video game that shipped with six million boxes of General Mills cereal. He believes entrepreneurship is an international language of peace, opportunity, freedom, and abundance.   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com    

Steve Medland is a Certified Financial Planner and co-founder of TABR Capital Management, an independent, fee-only financial planning firm based in Orange County, California. Today, he is going to talk about issues that the Millionaire Next Door faces. Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com      

  Wayne knows websites - and how to measure their success. Questions we discuss: Why don't most websites help entrepreneurs reach  their goals? What is the number 1 mistake entrepreneurs make when having a new website built? What can/should people do today to improve the results they get from their website? Be sure to have a pen and pad ready to capture the "353 rule"! Contact at www.uglymugmarketing.com Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

              Skip Weisman is in the business of improving workplace communication so that small business owners can create a more positive, productive and profitable company. Questions Asked:  1) You typically work with small businesses with between 6-60 employees, why do you focus on that size/type of business? 2) How, specifically, does communication kill company profits in small businesses? 3) What are the biggest communication mistakes small business leaders make in leading their employees? Contact Info Website: www.YourChampionshipCompany.com Email: Skip@WorkplaceCommunicationExpert.com Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com    

Joe Bertotto of CU Services, LLC, is a consultant who helps develop high care, high performance, and high accountability cultures in the workplace. Joe’s work in this field began 25 years ago and his expertise is in leadership and culture development. His goal is to help leaders create a work environment where employees feel they get to come to work, instead of feeling they have to come to work. While everyone has their own unique strengths, we all can be exceptionally bad at identifying what they are.  Joe shares valuable insight on metrics for measuring strengths and weaknesses, as well as how this knowledge can be used to benefit the company and employees. He also explores the idea that individual well-roundedness may not be as important as we make it out to be. While weaknesses can’t be ignored, cultivating unique strengths can be potentially more fruitful. Joe’s tried and true process of helping coworkers understand, tolerate, appreciate, and eventually leverage one another is indispensable information f

Using Common Sense is a sure fire way to prepare your company for the future. Vince Langley uses his expertise to ensure that companies are engaged and that both employees and business owners take ownership of their jobs.    Questions Discussed:   How can a business owner build a culture of independence vs dependence? How can we build a culture of accountability and ownership?   Contact Info:    Email Address: alaskavince@gmail.com Website: vincelangleyresources.com   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com    

                  Kristen Allott is the owner of Dynamic Brains, a company that optimizes brains for high stake events for better decision making, creative problem solving and health. Website: www.KristenAllott.com Email: Allott@dynamicbrainsconsulting.com   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com      

Brandon Miller is a CEO of 34 Strong, Prominent Vistage member, and Gallup Certified Strengthsfinder Coach. He is in the business of building enduring strengths-based interdependent organizations through developing strong people, strong partnerships, and strong teams. The Strengthsfinder assessment has been gaining popularity, especially among Fortune 500 companies. Brandon is an expert at using these results to help teams communicate more effectively and improve all around.  In his interview, Brandon connects the dots between leveraging employee’s natural strengths to increase in morale, retention, and engagement. Brandon explains how the Strengthsfinder assessment is different by focusing on what is right about people rather than what is wrong. People who are using their natural talents will become more engaged, and when this is applied to entire teams, they will enjoy a healthy boost in morale. Brandon shares measurable results as well as anecdotal evidence that prove the effectiveness of his claims. As a

Debbie Lundberg is an author, speaker, and president of Presenting Powerfully. Today, she will discuss reversing the slobification of America.   Questions discussed:   1) What makes a good leader?   2) How are we motivated or driven?    3) When things don't go as planned, what next?      Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com

Andrew Bennett believes a business's ability to thrive flows from its leaders. Leaders create the conditions for people to access their potential. Through consulting, coaching, speaking, training, and writing Andrew helps leaders create workplaces that unlock the power of the human mind and spirit. Today he’ll be talking about Transformational Leadership.   Questions Answered:    1. What are the most important actions a leader can take to create an inspiring workplace? 2. What gets in the way of creating an inspiring workplace? 3. How can listeners use your information for their own transformation during their exit from what they’ve built?   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com      

BizEquity's Valuation as a Service (VaaS)TM system was created to democratize business valuation knowledge for all business owners and the advisors who serve them. Our vision is to value every private business in the world and to make business valuation affordable, accessible, and real-time, thus ushering in the next great cloud based software and Big Data company for Small Business.   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

Brad Davidson, VP of Metabolism and Performance Research at Stark, has an understatedly important job. He works with a group of highly-trained specialists to help rejuvenate high performing people, let them move more freely, look better, and have limitless energy. Energy is a leader's greatest asset and Brad’s expertise is in teaching executives which lifestyle choices they make that are limiting them from reaching their full potential. Even if you think you’re performing at your highest potential, chances are you can still improve, and Brad’s knowledge is invaluable.  In his interview, Brad explains why people who are experts at recovery are the most successful, and why dedicated downtime helps increase productivity. He also analyzes different kinds of stress and how to avoid unnecessary stress with simple changes to lifestyle choices. Identifying good sleep habits and being nourished as the most important factors in living with limitless energy, Brad takes the time to share some tips for achieving both. You

Joining us next is Elizabeth Thornton, CEO of Global Initiative of Objective Leadership and Professor of Management Practice at Babson Executive Education. After deeply and honestly analyzing why her first business venture failed, she struck mental gold by realizing the importance of objective thinking. This prompted her to further study things like psychology and neuroscience, eventually leading her to develop a course called “Principles of Objectivity.” She teaches both students and established business executives to think more objectively and avoid common cognitive errors that can inhibit personal growth and success. In her interview, Elizabeth deeply discusses the difference between subjectivity and objectivity, as well as how they apply to business. Her insight into neuroplasticity and its relevance in the workplace is truly fascinating. She offers a variety of tips on how to analyze your own thought processes, overcome your instinctual responses, and break outside of your existing mental models. We are

Best-selling author ("Built to Sell") John Warrillow is back with new research that 3 or 4 business owners who sell regret their decision just one year after sale.    Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com

In 2001, Charles Nenner founded, and is president of, the Charles Nenner Research Center. Mr. Nenner has provided his independent market research to the following entities all over the world: hedge funds, banks, brokerage firms, family offices, and individual clients. Mr. Nenner worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co in NY, from 2001 to 2008. Before that time, Mr. Nenner worked exclusively for Goldman, Sachs & Co. in London, where he served as a technical analyst for Goldman’s fixed income trading group from 1998 to 2001. From 1997 to 1998, he served as the head of trading research at Rabobank International, and from 1992 to 1994, he was head of Market Timing at Ofek Securities in Tel Aviv. Mr. Nenner served as Director of Research at Windsor NY between 1987 and 1989, and was a Financial Consultant with Merrill Lynch out of its Amsterdam Office from 1985 to 1987. Mr. Nenner initiated a system of pattern forecasting and securities analysis, and developed a computer program which takes many indicators into acco

Kerri Salls is in the business of early exit planning for owners of private and family run businesses. Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

Jeffrey Appleman  of B2B CFO discusses how to get ready to exit your business.   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

  John "Murph" Murphy, founder of JK Murphy Advisors, specializes in helping business owners be prepared for all kinds of circumstances leading up the sale of a business. So what should an owner have prepared to discuss in case a serious buyer calls? Listen in to find out.   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com