After witnessing hundreds of agency leadership transitions, whether it's planned, forced, tragic, or amicable, change in leadership is always difficult. You may think you have all your ducks in a row, then one will fly off on you. Here’s some help finding what could work for you:

As a small business owner, there are many things that fill your typical day, most focused on either maintaining the business you’ve built or on ways to grow the business. Having worked with small business owners over the last decade, I know most of you reading this post don’t spend any measurable amount of time thinking about your succession/exit plan. With this in mind, the focus of this post is to answer a question I hear frequently from owners and their successors – “When should we start developing the succession plan?”