Jane M. Johnson

As a former business owner who successfully guided her business for 14 years until it was acquired in 2004, Jane Johnson discovered how much time, planning, and preparation were necessary in order to consummate a transaction, achieve her goals, and ensure the continuity of her business. After finding a lack of objective transition advisors in the marketplace, Jane forged ahead on her own. She maximized the value of her firm and then negotiated the sale, retaining 100% of her clients and team members in the process. She spent the next three years as a partner in the buyer’s firm, driving continual growth in revenue from both products and services.

This eye-opening experience fueled her desire to assist other business owners with their ownership transitions whether they intend to transfer their business internally to management or externally to an outside buyer. Today, as an independent and objective advisor, Jane remains passionate about teaching and assisting other business owners with maximizing company value and achieving all of their ownership-transition goals.

Jane is a CPA, a certified business exit consultant (CBEC), a certified merger and acquisition advisor (CM&AA), and a professional family business advisor (FBA).