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Join DriveValue.com October 28 in San Diego for a high-impact Regional Summit designed for business owners ready to build value, strengthen their teams, and secure a lasting legacy.
DriveValue.com™ is hitting the road this fall to host a series of high-impact, in-person Drive Value Regional Summits in seven cities across the U.S., making a stop in San Diego on October 28, 2025. Designed for business owners who want to build lasting companies and meaningful legacies, these one-day events bring together 150–200 growth-minded attendees for a powerful lineup of main stage sessions, panels, and networking. Featuring keynote speaker and Super Bowl champion Ben Utecht, each summit focuses on what matters most: making smarter decisions, building stronger teams, and driving real value.
Be part of the energy in a city where innovation meets opportunity and business thrives by design.
WHEN: October 28, 2025
WHERE: 686 Anton Blvd, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
WHAT TIME: 11:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Tickets are limited - get yours today!
Super Bowl Champion and high-performance strategist Ben Utecht is bringing bold energy and insight to the 2025 DriveValue.com™ Regional Summits. His keynote, based on The Champion’s Creed, will challenge business owners to lead with belief, discipline, and purpose.
Designed for business owners, advisors, and exit planning professionals who are serious about growth, strategy, and succession, each summit includes dynamic main stage sessions led by national experts, a fast-paced Power Session with five actionable takeaways, panel discussions featuring regional leaders sharing real-life value creation stories, and networking events where meaningful connections happen over food and drinks.
For Business Owners. By a Business Owner.
Walking to Destiny is not only your essential resource to understand what makes your business attractive and ready for transition; it is a business owner’s handbook to know HOW TO rapidly grow value and ultimately unlock the personal wealth trapped in your most significant financial asset: Your Business.
You spent years building your business and fulfilling your vision. Now, Scott Bushkie provides sound advice and concrete steps so you can Finish Strong and exit your business on your own terms.
With more than two decades of insight, Scott covers everything from the importance of timing, to buyer types, valuation, legacy, and lifestyle, with an ultimate goal to explain your options and provide peace of mind.
Be confident you took all the right steps as you make what is most likely the largest financial transaction of your life.
You spent years building your business and fulfilling your vision. Now, Scott Bushkie provides sound advice and concrete steps so you can Finish Strong and exit your business on your own terms.
This book includes more than two decades of insight, success stories, and completely avoidable mistakes he's seen business owners make as they transition their business. Bushkie covers more than how to maximize value (although that's here too). He helps prepare you for the entire journey ahead.
Covering everything from the importance of timing, to buyer types, valuation, legacy, and lifestyle, Bushkie's goal is to give you options and peace of mind. Be confident you took all the right steps as you make what is most likely the largest financial transaction of your life. No what ifs. No sleepless nights. Just satisfaction and confidence as you move forward into the next best chapter of your life.
This book helps you improve your business in eight key areas that will set you up for growth in revenue and profits today, not just for eventually selling your business. Focus on the present as shown, and you’ll have more sales, more profit, and even more exit options.
Those who operate their own company, firm, or practice typically plan for everything ― except success. Too often, business owners focus only on generating an income from their operations; they fail to realize the real payoff comes from building an enterprise that has value beyond the income they earn annually. The result is a squandered opportunity to truly achieve the American Dream.
If you’re a business owner and you want to avoid that mistake, read this book. It could be the best book on entrepreneurship I’ve ever read. It presents a highly realistic view of operating a business and offers practical advice that can make the difference between you selling your business one day for massive amounts of money ― or failing to get even a single offer. The sooner you read this in the life cycle of your enterprise, the better.
Succession planning can be a tricky conversation—but what if there was a simple way to start?
In Every Family’s Business, two strangers meet on a flight to Barbados and quickly realize they share something in common: they both work in family businesses. As they exchange stories of success and failure, one of them reveals 12 powerful questions that have guided his family’s business for four generations.
Entertaining, insightful, and practical, this bestselling novel helps families break the ice and start important conversations about the future of their business. With a blend of sound business principles, love, and mutual respect, this book offers a proven method to ensure both family harmony and financial security.
If you’re like most business owners, you started a company because you thought it would give you freedom—to do what you want, work on your own schedule, make the kind of money you deserve and eventually retire on the fruits of your labor.
Unfortunately, according to John Warrillow, most owners find that stepping out of the picture is extremely difficult because they’ve built a business that relies too heavily on their personal involvement. Without them, their company—no matter how big or profitable—is essentially worthless. Luckily, there are steps you can take—no matter what stage your business is in—to create a valuable, sellable company that can grow and thrive without you.
A thriving business isn’t just about having the right people—it’s about creating the right culture. In People, the second book in the EOS Mastery Series, Kelly Knight shows how to build a deliberate, values-driven workplace that attracts, engages, and retains top talent.
Using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), this book provides a clear, actionable roadmap for defining your Core Values, fostering alignment, and eliminating the chaos of a haphazard culture. Whether you’re struggling with hiring, productivity, or team dynamics, People will help you shape a workplace where both your business and your employees can thrive.
Forget the endless treadmill of hustle and grind, hoping one day you'll retire. There is no need to throw the best years of your life away, enslaved to your business.
What if you could triple the value of your business and discover your path to freedom by making a few small changes over the next six months?
With Exitology you can:
This book reveals:
Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you.
All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It's not complicated or theoretical.The Entrepreneurial Operating System® is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. More than 170,000 companies have discovered what EOS can do.
In Traction, you'll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key components of your business. You'll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Successful companies are applying Traction every day to run profitable, frustration-free businesses—and you can too.
There are many reasons entrepreneurs may want to sell their company. You could be looking for the next opportunity, or you may need to sell for personal reasons. Perhaps you’ve worked long and hard and are ready to retire. Whatever your reason for selling, do you know how to go about it?
If you own a $10+ million business, it’s often easy to go to an investment banker or a private equity firm. But for those owners who’ve spent their lives building a small business, this is like selling your child. Enter Jessica Fialkovich, who has been teaching entrepreneurs how to prep and sell their "baby" for over a decade. After founding, growing, and selling her own multimillion-dollar baby, she decided to help other entrepreneurs on the same path. Today, in addition to her advisory business, she leads one of the most successful step-by-step courses on how to prep and sell companies. In Getting the Most for Selling Your Business, Fialkovich teams up with Anne Mary Ciminelli, coauthor of 12 Lessons in Business Leadership, to expand upon that course, laying out the fundamentals of when to sell, how to find buyers, mitigating risk, and managing the financials. This book is the perfect manual for business owners who are thinking about selling their baby but know they need guidance from experts.
No two exit experiences are exactly alike. Some people wind up happy with the process and satisfied with the way it turned out, while others look back on it as a nightmare. The question I hope to answer in this book is why. What did the people with ''good'' exits do differently from those who''d had ''bad'' exits?''
Bo Burlingham''s first book Small Giants became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem: how to handle the pressure to grow. Now he is back to tackle an even more common problem: how to exit your company well.
Sooner or later, all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated. Whatever your preferred outcome, if you start planning for it while you still have time and options, you can build a stronger, more resilient company with a higher market value. Unfortunately, most don''t - and they pay a steep price for their procrastination.
Through dozens of interviews with entrepreneurs across a range of industries, Burlingham identifies eight key factors that determine whether owners leave their businesses happily. He showcases the insights, exits and cautionary tales of entrepreneurs across an array of industries including manufacturing, food and services.
Finish Big is an illuminating and inspirational guide to one of the most stressful, and yet potentially rewarding, processes business owners must go through.
Too many business owners aren't enjoying the success they've earned.
The pressure of continuing growth while also planning their existing success leaves most owners overwhelmed.
After serving as a guide and partner to some of the world's most successful business owners for nearly twenty years, author Ali Nasser identified three critical dilemmas challenging their minds:
1. The Re-Investment Dilemma(TM): How do I re-invest my success?
2. The Legacy Dilemma(TM): What is it all for?
3. The Exit Dilemma(TM): What is my best exit strategy?
Ali has successfully turned those challenges into opportunities via the Wealth Integration System for Entrepreneurs(TM) (WISE(TM)). This powerful and proprietary framework reveals how business owners can integrate business, wealth, and life decisions to create the outcomes they truly desire.
The Business Owner's Dilemma will help you:
- Gain clarity over your dilemmas.
- Learn a simple and powerful design to approach all aspects of entrepreneurial wealth.
- Take control and decide on a path to capture your life's work.
Successful owners understand it is impossible to capture and monetize success without strategy and integration. WISE(TM) creates the path to bring it all together and take your results to the next level.
Learn the missing link to influence and closing sales in crowded, competitive markets.
The former Brand Manager of Coors Light reveals how they made over $1 Billion turning the mountains blue and how you can use the same strategies in your business.
Many companies in crowded, competitive markets struggle to stand out in the sea of sameness and close sales.
That's because there is a missing link to creating influential marketing and sales messages that most companies don’t know about and almost none are using.
It's called your Because.
The Because Framework reveals why customers buy - and how to influence them to buy from you. It is the intersection of age-old advertising strategies and the science of decision-making, applied to today’s toughest marketing and sales challenges. It draws from billion-dollar brand strategies, Harvard research, and Nobel laureate work on influence, and results in practical application.
You're Too Busy Making Money. No Business Can Survive That.
- Build a business that makes money while you're on vacation
- Get a grip on why businesses never grow up, and how yours can.
- Move your business from survival, through success, to significance.
- Grow a business quickly that you can enjoy for decades.
The Second Edition of Making Money is Killing Your Business is built on profoundly simple ideas that have been around forever and ignored as being too simple to work. Chuck Blakeman has learned the hard way that profound things are always simple. The Four Building Blocks, Seven Stages of Business Ownership, Business Owner's Game, Freedom Mapping, 2pg Strategic Plan, Lifetime Goals and many other practical tools will revolutionize any business willing to give up complexity for effectiveness.
