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Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors: Tips for Setting Your Business Up for Success Years Before a MoveDiamond Podcast for Financial Advisors: Tips for Setting Your Business Up for Success Years Before a Move

A breakdown of the steps advisors can take to prepare for change and enhance business processes, equally effective for those at the curiosity stage or even deep into due diligence, and whether you ultimately make a move or not.

Contrary to what many advisors believe, transitioning from one firm or model to another does not happen overnight. Ensuring a transition is accomplished with the least amount of disruption, the highest level of portability, and the greatest success takes a good amount of planning—for advisors and teams at all levels.

Of course, there are several steps we walk our advisor-clients through when they are considering change: educating them on the latest trends, helping to evaluate economic models and understand their enterprise value, guiding them through the thought process around their goals and vision, conducting a strategic due diligence process, and the act of comparing and contrasting their current firm to the options on the table.

But this is different. There are actions that you can take now to prepare your business for a potential move—whether you’re just at the curiosity stage or even deep into due diligence.

They are actions that are so important that our download on the topic, Top Tips for Setting Your Business Up for Success Years Before a Move, has become one of the most popular tools in our arsenal of advisor resources.

In this episode, which serves as a “deep dive” companion to the tool, Mindy and Louis break down each tactic, offering additional advice gleaned from over two decades of experience helping our advisor-clients through successful transitions, including:

  • How to improve book portability.

  • Why you should set up a secure document repository.

  • What you should be looking at when it comes to your staff and their roles.

  • How to handle legacy broker dealer business.

  • Why you might consider shifting away from proprietary solutions.

  • And much more!

It’s the guidance you need to prepare you, your team, and your business for change and enhance your business processes—whether you ultimately make a move or not, you’ll be ready to pivot in whatever direction you need to.

So listen in to learn what you can get started on today.

Download: Top Tips for Setting Your Business Up for Success Years Before a Move

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About the Authors

Mindy Diamond

Columnist: Career Moves, CEO, Diamond Consultants

https://www.diamond-consultants.com/

Mindy started Diamond Consultants in 1998 from her bedroom floor—and today it’s known as one of the leading consulting and recruiting firms for the industry’s top financial advisors. Drawing from her own entrepreneurial experience, the firm employs a unique relationship-driven approach that helps individuals and organizations achieve what she refers to as their “Best Business Lives.” Mindy hosts the popular podcast series Mindy Diamond on Independence, is a prolific writer and regular media contributor.

For more information, visit: https://www.diamond-consultants.com/team/mindy-diamond/

Louis Diamond

President, Diamond Consultants

Louis has guided many of the top teams in the industry as they’ve transitioned to other employee-model firms or launched RIA firms. And as a next-gen leader himself, Louis has a passion for representing complex multi-generational teams. His strong business acumen, refined analytical skills and objectivity also make Louis an ideal advisor to independent business owners who want to accelerate growth via mergers, acquisitions and recruiting.

A George Washington University magna cum laude graduate with a BBA degree in Finance and International Business, Louis’s resume includes roles at Ernst & Young, Morgan Stanley and UBS.

For more information, visit: https://www.diamond-consultants.com/team/louis-diamond/