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Speaking & Podcasts

Craig is an engaging guest simplifying the complex, and providing memorable anecdotes and stories about business, M&A and achieving life-changing outcomes for entrepreneurs and families.  

He approaches business, value creation, and M&A from his own experience as a serial entrepreneur and helps first-time sellers or buyers on how to win at the M&A game and how to achieve “outlier outcomes” in the sale of their business.

Craig is plain-spoken as a fellow entrepreneur turned CEO of an investment bank, and brings the keys to unlocking liquidity to the middle market business without the pretense and arrogance of wall street.
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Categories

  • Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

  • Rapid Growth

  • Business Value Acceleration

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Raising Capital

  • Exit Planning

  • Partnering with Private Equity

Possible Topics

  • How to build a valuable company

  • How to achieve rapid growth and exit velocity on your way to the deal of a lifetime

  • How to monetize your life’s work thru an M&A recapitalization or sale

  • How to break thru barriers or plateaus in your business

  • How to sell for the highest dollar amount and achieve an “outlier outcome”

  • Finding multiple liquidity options

  • Structuring a board the achieve maximum results

Sample speaking engagements and topics

Columbia Bank

SGIA

425 Business

Spire

Vistage

CEO Network

CEO Excel l

Collective 54

Entrepreneur Organization (EO)

Private Keynote

Private Keynote

Private Keynote

IEEE

CEO Money

Wall Street Bulls & Bears

Million Dollar Relationships

Top M&A Entrepreneurs Podcast

Cashing Out Podcast

Exit Planning & Succession

Today’s Changing M&A Strategies

Building a Valuable Company, you can sell

Why Working ON vs. IN your Business creates exit value

Vistage Keynote – Make your company sellable

M&A for Manufacturing companies

M&A “Silver Tsunami”

Various / Multiple Topics

Selling your business for the highest value

Growing your business before the sale

Negotiating with Private Equity – Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight

Technology M&A Outlook for 2023

Key relationships in achieving successful Sale

Podcast Promotion

Two Pre-show LinkedIn invites to view/listen (if Live Podcast) to 20,000+ CEO/Entrepreneur followers. 

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One post-show follow-up appreciation post and invite to listen after the fact to 20,000 + LinkedIn CEO/entrepreneur followers with Subscribe CTA.

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55,000+ Email / Newsletter CEO / Entrepreneur followers. 

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One Post-show “in case you missed it” invites you to watch/listen to the episode with subscribe CTA.

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