| Marian Cook, Author, Selling Your Business For More |
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Your Event Host: Marian Cook Marian Cook is a recognized and highly sought after business and civic leader well known among family businesses and large corporations for her ability to laser in on what provides business value and how to improve it. Ms. Cook is President and Chief Executive Officer of Business Transition Experts, a management and technology consulting firm specializing in business optimization, value enhancement and transition. For 25 years, she has been a trusted advisor to hundreds of business owners and executives worldwide. She is lauded for providing advice and in-house executive education that is practical, powerful and takes into account the real-world complexities of businesses of all sizes. She started her career with family businesses at IBM as a manufacturing industry Systems Engineer, and moved into the professional services division. Throughout her career at IBM, she won awards for outstanding work on business and systems performance and process improvement, and business strategy. From there she moved to consulting and leadership positions in other firms before starting her own in 2001. She personally leads leadership development forums for corporate executives and business owners, as well as consults on operational and organizational improvements, and business growth, succession and exit strategy. An active speaker and writer, her insights have been captured as the coauthor of Selling Your Business for More: Maximizing Returns for You, Your Family and the Business (Macmillan). In this book, she teaches business owners to improve the value and transferability of their businesses, and plan to move to the next phase of their life through the sale of their business. Anyone who has worked to sell a company knows how important it is to realize the full worth of the transaction, financially, psychologically, and with an eye towards the future. Selling Your Business for More is a holistic and values based approach to selling a business that gives the family business owner a unique personal and professional perspective of the sales cycle. It focuses on the entire process of how to sell a business--before, during and after--ensuring that the seller and the family reap the rewards from the change in ownership. |
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