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AEG addresses complex problems with an ecosystem of connected business advisors

Who We Are

AEG is a nonprofit network of proven expert advisors helping business owners and executives grow value, maximize wealth and live a good life.

We use proprietary technologies and processes to integrate personal, business and market perspectives, applied across the business lifecycle, to grow enterprise value and maximize personal wealth

We are an ecosystem of 40 experienced, well-connected, and independent professionals in complementary disciplines. These include expertise in strategy, operations, law, banking, financial planning, wealth management, expense management, accounting, sales and marketing, technology, human resources, and finance. Learn more about our solutions, our business management insights, how we see growth challenges and how to get started growing to your full potential.

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What We Can Do For You

Growth is getting harder. Complexity is the biggest challenge for over 80% of CEOs (IBM Global CEO Survey). But the average company operates at only 73% of its potential (CoreValue Software). Only half of business owners have any formal transition plan (Exit Planning Institute). Specialization of business services challenges executives to get fully relevant, timely and valuable advice.

AEG works exclusively with CEOs to link business goals with personal goals. Whether a year or ten years from now, we help transition and monetize the business. We provide proprietary technology, experienced local advisors and a novel service model that integrates professional disciplines to quickly and sustainably grow enterprise value – averaging more than 21% per year.

Solve Single Challenges

Tackle immediate crises or opportunities in strategy, operations or culture. Resolve issues you struggle to conquer.

Make your company what it could be worth by unlocking hidden value

Grow Enterprise Value

Uncover hidden value, strengthen
operations and grow enterprise value to what your company should be worth.

Build Personal Wealth

Define family goals and current wealth, assess wealth building strategies, and implement a plan to meet your goals.

Capture equity from your business at a time and under terms of your choosing

Transition Your Company

Prepare for transition of your hard work and equity into personal wealth for your family when and how you choose.

The Major Challenges To Enterprise Growth We Solve

The mid-market private business owner faces five challenges that slow business value growth and hinder personal wealth. Most businesses are struggling to grow, but have operational deficiencies and one or more “Red Flags” that could compromise their entire value.

Inconsistent Growth

Many mid-market private companies are still recovering from the recession, chasing top line growth and recurring revenue, using new technology to control expenses, looking for the right people, dealing with new competitors, and fighting fiercely for market share and customers.

Fragmented Advice

Rapid changes in business and markets increase demand for specialized advice. But specialization means a narrowing of focus and a loss of integration of that advice. This can create incomplete, if not conflicting, strategies to grow value, improve operations and manage risk.

Operational Deficiencies

Business is a survival of the fittest. For your company to compete for talent, capital, partners or buyers, you need to streamline operations. Improved operational excellence creates greater transparency, lower cost of capital, higher margins, longer term employees and agility.

Growing Complexity

CEOs say complexity is their top challenge, but fewer than half say they are agile enough to deal with it. Companies face unpredictable economies, policies, technologies, and information. Today’s economy is increasingly VUCA – volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.

Unaligned Priorities

Owners pour their time and money into a business, but often overlook the need for balance between personal and business needs. Meeting objectives of both means careful planning to mange opportunities, risks and resources, using appropriate skills and tools.

. . . Each Of Which Costs You Money

The impact of these five challenges is lost company value. AEG’s work with several thousand companies shows an average company missing 1/4 of its potential value, with the top five value gaps decreasing value by $2.5 million on a $22 million company. (See details)

See How We Help You Overcome These Challenges

Research and Insights To Help You Grow Value

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Tax Planning for Real Estate Under the TCJA

Of all the massive changes included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, those affecting real estate owners, investors and developers may be the most difficult to navigate. This article offers a preliminary take on how the new §199A deduction, the new 30% limit on business interest expense, changes to the like-kind exchange and cost recovery rules and other provisions work and interact to inform real estate investment and development decisions.

Nonworking Model

If you read business management journals, you’d be forgiven for believing that the best ideas on management come from academia or consulting firms. What used to be the province of executives reporting on business results has

Consilient Consulting

Specialization in business and management disciplines has led to disconnected advice and increased risk for the business owner and executive. Seeking specialized advice is logical for increasingly complex problems.

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Business Owners

AEG assembles an advisory team that complements a business owner’s current advisors to strengthen operations, grow enterprise value and maximize personal wealth.

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Affinity Groups

AEG strengthens communities, industries and the nation through affinity groups like economic development agencies, trade associations, and franchises to grow economic value.

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Professional Advisors

AEG seeks a limited number and type of professionals with solid technical competence, mid-market advisory experience and reputation for integrity to join our Regional Councils.

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