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Two Mornings. One Clear Outcome.
Build a 5-Year Forecast and Lock In a 90-Day Plan.
The financial model, the expert team, and the working session most owners never get.
March 30-31 I 9 AM - Noon CST I Live, Interactive
4.85 out of 5 (1,450 reviews)
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What to Expect
Day 1 — Your 5-Year Financial Forecast
Day 2 — Your 90-Day Game Plan
Working with Ryan has been revolutionary. I have more clarity and less anxiety regarding the financial health of my business. I’m so grateful that I can now use my new mindset, tools and knowledge to grow my company’s equity value.
Steve Schaffer
Owner, Schaffer Manufacturing
Clarity I couldn’t see day to day When you’re living in the day-to-day and just looking at your bank statement, you don’t see how it can ever happen. Working through the numbers showed me what was possible — hiring a COO, paying taxes, and still having confidence in my cash flow. That clarity changed everything.
MIchelle Stober
Owner/CEO, Senior Care Solutions
As a business owner, I sometimes get into a rhythm or maybe a rut and do things in a certain way, almost methodically. Ryan's workshop allowed me to intentionally disrupt the rhythm and look at things through a different lens.”
Jamie Gmach
Owner, Evolving Solutions
An invaluable lens for ownership decisions Working with Ryan helped me step out of day-to-day execution and think clearly about ownership decisions—capital allocation, risk, and long-term optionality. The framework brings clarity to complex tradeoffs and makes high-stakes decisions feel intentional instead of reactive.
Deron Keiter
Owner/CEO, Thermal Tech, Inc.
From overwhelmed to intentional This work helped me slow down and make decisions from clarity instead of pressure. I’m no longer reacting to the business—I’m intentionally designing how I spend my time and where the business is going.
Cindy Banchy
Owner/CEO, Vanguard Cleaning
“Ryan Tansom walks the talk. He is incredibly dedicated to helping business owners and leaders ‘grow the value of their business with an end in mind’. My Vistage Members, EOS Clients and Coaching Clients leverage Ryan’s tools, education, workshops, and podcasts. My only regret about Ryan, is that I did not meet him earlier in my professional career.”
Katina Koller
Vistage Chair and EOS© Implementor
Working with Ryan has been revolutionary. I have more clarity and less anxiety regarding the financial health of my business. I’m so grateful that I can now use my new mindset, tools and knowledge to grow my company’s equity value.
Steve Schaffer
Owner, Schaffer Manufacturing
Clarity I couldn’t see day to day When you’re living in the day-to-day and just looking at your bank statement, you don’t see how it can ever happen. Working through the numbers showed me what was possible — hiring a COO, paying taxes, and still having confidence in my cash flow. That clarity changed everything.
MIchelle Stober
Owner/CEO, Senior Care Solutions
As a business owner, I sometimes get into a rhythm or maybe a rut and do things in a certain way, almost methodically. Ryan's workshop allowed me to intentionally disrupt the rhythm and look at things through a different lens.”
Jamie Gmach
Owner, Evolving Solutions
An invaluable lens for ownership decisions Working with Ryan helped me step out of day-to-day execution and think clearly about ownership decisions—capital allocation, risk, and long-term optionality. The framework brings clarity to complex tradeoffs and makes high-stakes decisions feel intentional instead of reactive.
Deron Keiter
Owner/CEO, Thermal Tech, Inc.
From overwhelmed to intentional This work helped me slow down and make decisions from clarity instead of pressure. I’m no longer reacting to the business—I’m intentionally designing how I spend my time and where the business is going.
Cindy Banchy
Owner/CEO, Vanguard Cleaning
“Ryan Tansom walks the talk. He is incredibly dedicated to helping business owners and leaders ‘grow the value of their business with an end in mind’. My Vistage Members, EOS Clients and Coaching Clients leverage Ryan’s tools, education, workshops, and podcasts. My only regret about Ryan, is that I did not meet him earlier in my professional career.”
Katina Koller
Vistage Chair and EOS© Implementor

Who's in the Room
Four experts. Two mornings. Each one brings something specific to this workshop.
Ryan Tansom
Ryan built and sold a $21M business, then spent a decade figuring out what he'd do differently. 480+ podcast episodes interviewing owners, operators, and advisors. He built the iBD Ownership OS™ — the ownership framework behind this workshop — and designed the 5‒year financial model with Pat. Ryan facilitates both days and walks you through the model step by step.
Listen to the iBD Podcast
Kim Clark
Kim helps owner‒operators build predictable revenue engines that actually scale without the founder. She works with leadership teams to move beyond fragmented marketing and sales activity into a unified operating model with real economics underneath it. Kim co‒hosts both days and leads the Day 2 revenue breakout — if your biggest constraint is on the top line, she's your room.
Listen to the iBD Podcast Episode with Kim
Alan Beaulieu
Alan spent decades as President of ITR Economics analyzing business cycles, leading indicators, and macroeconomic trends. He translates complex economic data into practical, actionable insight — not headlines. Alan opens Day 1 with the macro context so your 5‒year growth assumptions are grounded in where the economy is actually heading.
Listen to the iBD Podcast Episode with Alan
Pat Hobby
Pat designed the iBD Financial Model, the tool that connects your revenue, cost structure, EBITDA, cash flow, and business valuation into one integrated picture. It's the financial visibility most owners spend years and tens of thousands of dollars trying to piece together from different advisors. Pat walks you through it on Day 1 and leads the Day 2 breakout on reading your financials the way a CEO should.
Listen to the iBD Podcast with Pat
Build a Business That Gives You Options
Everything in this workshop (the forecast, the value gap, the 90-day plan) is pointed at one outcome: getting your business to the point where it gives you freedom of time and money, whether you scale, step back, or sell. We call it Independence Escape Velocity™.
The workshop is where you see how far away you are and what to do about it.
Space to Think. A Plan When You Leave.
Most workshops hand you ideas and add to your to-do list. This one gives you something rare: two mornings of protected time to actually think about your business, with experts guiding you through every step.
You won't be asked to share your financials with anyone. Come with a rough sense of your current revenue, cost of goods, and overhead. That's it. We'll do the rest together.
March 30-31 I 9 AM - Noon CST I Live, Interactive
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3,500+ Owners Have Been Through This Workshop
"I came to understand our ownership KPIs"
Joan's family business is second-generation transitioning to third. She came looking for the KPIs they should be paying attention to and the things they hadn't thought about yet. She left with a load of notes and said she'd send the other partners so they're all on the same page.
Joan Siewert-Cardona
Partner & CFO/Sales, Ideal Printers
"Finally, clarity on where my future is headed"
Jimmy came in running day-to-day without clarity on what the future looked like. The workshop helped him tie revenue, profit, and cash flow together into one picture, then back into what his business needs to accomplish so he can decide where to spend his time and what to hire for next.
Jimmy Fritz
CEO/Owner of the Wedding Shoppe & Kennedy Blue
"It's all about the choices"
Dave's takeaway: the workshop shows you the next steps to position your company to have choices. Good financials, good advisors, and a clear view of what's in front of you. "It's all about the choices you can see in front of you. And if you have good financials and a good group of people advising you, you'll get there quicker."
Dave Hoeffel
Owner of Endurance Technologies
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Day 1: Economist Alan Beaulieu sets the macro context. Then Ryan Tansom and CFO Pat Hobby walk you through the iBD Three-Statement Financial Model: revenue growth, cost structure, EBITDA, valuation, and cash at closing. You fill in your own numbers as we go. Day 2: Reflect on the last 90 days, assess where your biggest constraint is, choose an expert breakout (revenue with Kim Clark or finance with Pat Hobby), pressure-test your plan in a small group mastermind, and commit — out loud — to your One Thing for the next 90 days.
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