Kevin D. Monaghan

Kevin D. Monaghan helps privately held business owners retain, incentivize, and transition ownership to the people who already know the company—without defaulting to private equity or traditional buyout structures that often fail under tax and financing pressure.

He is the founder of Intuitive Compensation Group and the author of Buckets: How Business Legends Keep Their Hustlers and Outbid: How Your Children, Key People, or Trust Can Compete with Private Equity Offers. His background ranges from production assistant on NBC’s The Office to building a financial consulting business in China, experiences that shaped his practical, story-driven approach to complex compensation and succession topics.

Based in Charlotte, N.C., Kevin speaks across the country, sharing clear, sometimes lightly comedic explanations of share-redemption strategies, key-employee alignment, and internal exit options that let owners get paid for the value they built while keeping the business with family or the team that runs it.

When he’s not working, he spends time with his son, fixes up old scooters, and travels—pursuits that feed his love of Star Wars, rooting for the Buffalo Bills, and his search for the world’s best blue cheese dressing.