The Exit Readiness Workshop gives business owners the clarity, tools, and plan to reduce key person dependency, and build a business that's valuable with or without you.
"Can you take a two-week vacation, read or write zero emails, take zero calls or texts, and have the business thrive while you're gone?
If the honest answer is no, your exit is further away than you think.
Includes book, assessment, and workshop materials
Boomer-owned businesses
transferring by 2035
In enterprise value
at stake
Of owners have
no succession plan
Of Boomers have started
exit planning, the lowest of any generation
When buyers, partners, or successors look at your business, they're asking one question: does this business work without the founder? If the answer is unclear, your valuation suffers, or the deal falls apart entirely.
This isn't a financial problem or a legal problem. It's a leadership problem. And it starts with how you've built your team, your culture, and your own role in the business.
"Most business owners are the ceiling on their own team. They help too much, decide too much, and hold too much. The exit readiness work starts with that,
not the financials."
โ Pamela Potts, Founder, Leader Coach Approach
The good news: this is solvable. And it doesn't take years. It takes a clear diagnosis, the right framework, and a committed leader who's ready to build differently.
Your signed copy of Pamela's #1 bestselling book, the foundation of the Leader Coach Approach and the OMO Methodโข.
A guided look at what drives you as a leader, and how that's shaped the way you've built, and sometimes limited, your business.
Observe, Map, Optimize: a practical framework for identifying where you're the bottleneck and what to do about it.
A full review of your results, and the key drivers you'll leave with to start implementing immediately.
This is a working session, not a lecture. You'll leave with real clarity on where your business stands and what needs to change before you're exit-ready.
The boomer transfer wave is real, and most owners aren't ready for it. We start with what's actually at stake, what buyers are evaluating, and why the window to prepare is narrower than most founders think.
This is where it stops being about the market and starts being about your business. You'll walk through your own Exit Readiness Assessment results across all six drivers of valuation, in writing, specific to you.
Your financial advisor can see the dependency. Your attorney can document it. Neither can tell you why it exists. Using the OMO Methodโข, we trace your specific dependency back to its root, in how you lead, what you carry, and who you've built your business to need. This is Purpose & Awareness in action.
You'll leave with your top priorities, clearly ranked, and an honest conversation about what it takes to close the gap, guided by someone who has built and exited businesses herself, not just advised on them.
You own a business generating $8Mโ$50M+ in annual revenue
You're 1โ5 years from a planned exit, transition, or succession
You know the business depends on you more than it should
You want to maximize valuation, not just survive the transaction
You're working with financial, legal, or operational advisors but feel like something's missing
You want to leave a legacy, not just close a deal
Founder & Lead Facilitator
Certified Executive Coach
6x Founder ยท 4 Exits
Author, Every Leader Is a Coach
25 Years in High Tech
Trusted by:
High Tech
Hospital Systems
COMCAST
AUDI
US AIRFORCE
MICROSOFT
Pamela Potts has founded six and exited four businesses. She's sat in the founder's chair, navigated the identity questions that come with stepping back, and watched what happens when leaders build teams that can't run without them.
The Leader Coach Approach and the Exit Readiness program specifically, was built to fill the gap that financial planners, attorneys, and M&A advisors can't reach: the people, leadership, and founder-identity work that determines whether an exit actually succeeds.
She brings 25 years in high tech and over a decade in leadership development to every room she enters, along with the practical credibility of having done this herself.
3.5 hours. One clear picture of where your business stands, and what it will take to exit on your terms.
Per Attendee ยท Includes All Materials
Book: Every Leader Is a Coach
Purpose & Awareness Clarity
OMO Methodโข Framework
Exit Readiness Assessment Review
Your Next Steps Plan

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