Where Succession Planning Is Made Easy

Make Things Happen provides succession planning and leadership transition assistance for family businesses.

Make Things Happen also helps identify and address a variety of different challenges linked to leadership continuity, but we are best known for our contributions to succession planning in the family firm. We address succession planning problems directly through advising, coaching, facilitating and — by providing you with the tools and education to solve future challenges on your own. Our primary clients are individuals, founders, partners and families where succession planning issues are of primary concern.

Change is never easy for individuals and their organizations however a qualified organization development advisor can help you Make Things Happen! — Where doing succession planning is easier than worrying about it.

Please contact Make Things Happen for a complimentary consultation to see how we might contribute to your success.

Family Business Succession

Succession planning is a forward-looking process that ensures the effective performance and transition of your organization by providing coaching for leadership development and replacement while retaining family harmony and good will. Could your banker, accountant, lawyer, insurance broker or financial planner do that? Not likely. And if they could, would you want them to? Often business-owning families don’t know who to call. If you have a problem that’s not quite right for any of your regular professional advisors then you probably need a Family Business Advisor (FBA).

Are you ready? Succession Readiness Survey

A self-assessment of your family business’s strengths and weaknesses through the lens of succession planning.

This survey contains questions succession-ready families have thought about and know the answers to. Every question may not be relevant to the maturity of your family or the complexity of your business, but this self-assessment will give you a good idea of your strengths and weaknesses as seen through the lens of succession planning and readiness.

Exit Right®: A Tool for Business Owning Families

Exit Right is written for business people, not academics. This is a quick and easy read, a “20,000 foot view” of the process designed to help business owners distinguish the forest from the trees and address the personal and family needs that their strategic and financial planning strategies must satisfy. It provides a practical step-by-step process for developing a plan that truly serves both the emotional and financial needs of the owner and his or her family as well as the long-term health of the business. The result? An effective succession plan that serves the owner, the family and the business.

Linda has an ability to grasp the many aspects of a given situation and hold each of these threads. She is able to see many unnamed aspects that are factors in each of the threads and how that may be effecting the situation as well as changing the direction that things may go. Her vision and over view skills combined with keen intuition are rare and valuable assets.

Kim Meisinger

Pragmatic solutions to complex issues - that’s Linda from Make Things Happen. Applying her years of consulting experience and expertise to coaching and facilitation she guided me through to a satisfying, implementable resolution to my rather complex problems.

R.A. Jackson, BBA, Business Analyst

Linda’s professionalism and coaching expertise draws on a multi-disciplinary perspective that is grounded in current best practices. She offers quality work and is intensely focused on deadlines and client expectations.

Catherine Daugherty, Development Professional