Engineering Your Exit: The Founder's Guide to an Optimal Outcome

by Mark Tepper

A Strategic Guide to Maximizing Business Value and Personal Wealth

Selling a business is about more than finding the right buyer or achieving the highest valuation. It's about preparing for what comes next.

Engineering Your Exit introduces the Transaction Readiness Plan™, a practical framework that helps founders and CEOs of mid-market businesses prepare for a successful liquidity event. By combining exit planning with long-term wealth management, the book shows how to increase enterprise value, optimize tax outcomes, manage risk, and build financial security beyond the business.

Through seven core areas of exit readiness, readers will learn how to align personal goals with business strategy, prepare for succession, and create a lasting legacy. Whether your exit is years away or already on the horizon, Engineering Your Exit provides a clear roadmap to achieving your financial and personal objectives.

232 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication February 2, 2027