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ISPA and BTC Announce Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Succession Planning for Advisors Working with Business Owners
Orlando, FL — April 15, 2026 — The International Succession Planning Association (ISPA) and the Business Transition Council (BTC) today announced a strategic partnership focused on strengthening how advisors approach succession and transition planning with business...
Aligning Business Transitions with Charitable Goals: What Advisors Should Know
Business transitions are among the most significant financial events your clients will ever experience. In the coming decade, the United States will see the largest intergenerational transfer of privately held business wealth in history. Many baby boomer owners are...
Passion and Zen: Designing a Life on Your Own Terms
Passion and Zen explores how boundaries and integrity are instrumental in honoring the practices that strengthen our resilience. These practices help us gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and our purpose. When we know what we want and truly believe we deserve...
Future-Proofing Private Wealth: How Business Owners Are Planning Ahead
Business ownership is more than a career, it’s a high-stakes investment and often the cornerstone of a family’s financial future. Unlike public-market investors, private business owners face unique challenges: concentrated wealth, illiquidity, and complex exit...
The Networking Playbook
Networking is more than shaking hands, swapping cards, or delivering a polished elevator pitch. It’s about building real relationships that lead to trust, opportunity, and long-term business success. In The Networking Playbook for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses,...
Business Seller Success Guide
CAN I SELL A BUSINESS? Yes, but it’s most advantageous to make a plan. Even during economic downturns, such as those experienced during the times of COVID-19 and the challenges in 2008, business owners continued to sell their businesses. However, it’s important to...
Business Buying Success Guide
DO YOU DREAM OF BUYING YOUR OWN BUSINESS? Buying a business can be a complicated process. It starts with finding the right business for you and goes all the way to figuring out the details required for a smooth transfer of ownership. BIG STEPS - LOTS OF UNKNOWNS! ...
Introducing Our Series on Navigating the Emotions and Planning for a Meaningful Exit
As a business owner approaching the transition out of your company, you’re stepping into a process that’s as emotional as it is strategic. The journey of planning an exit and moving into a new phase of life often brings up a range of feelings and challenges, many of...
Tax Alpha Solutions
Description Wealth Management for High Earners: Know the Options Available to You There’s good news for investors: legal, tangible tax strategies are out there—they just need to be found. In Tax Alpha Solutions: Effective Tax Management Strategies for High-Net-Worth...
Grit & Grace
Short Description Part memoir, part call to action, Grit + Grace invites us, even in the face of hardship, to delve into who we are and what we are meant to do. The author [Angela Devlen] offers a roadmap for navigating change and healing as an invitation to create a...
Your Unstoppable You Is Waiting For You in Just One Step
Short Description Jeff Nischwitz’s fourth book — Just One Step: Walking Backwards to the Present on the Camino Trail(Eagle Heart Press February 2020) — is based upon his 2017 journey, experiences and lessons on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Description Jeff...
Snow Globe Leadership: Shaken Not Settled
Short Description The need for transformational change in leadership is great and the urgency is even greater. The world is waiting for brave and bold leaders to take the risks of leading in these different and people-focused ways. Description The need for...
Unmask: Let Go of Who You’re “Supposed” to Be & Unleash Your True Leader
Unmask is a must-read for any leader seeking to enhance their influence and impact. Jeff Nischwitz’s new concept of integrated leadership—what he calls LIVINGSHIPTM—represents a new way of living, thinking, and leading. If you’re ready to put down your masks and...
Seven Layers of Successful Relationships
Short Description: Do you ever wonder how some people get along with everyone and have genuine fulfillment and happiness within their life? It’s not that they’re better than you. It’s that they took the...
Business Growth Simplified: How to Rapidly Create a Self-Sustaining Business
Short Description This book reveals the 5 stages of business maturity and 8 factors that influence your ability to navigate the journey. Description This book is meant to help small business owners realize the life independence and financial freedom they dreamed of...
Business Success Through Self-Knowledge by William D. Anton PhD
Description Knowing is Growing Do you believe your deepest aspirations are hidden from you? Did you know that disconfirming experiences can create slight shifts that unlock the door to your unrealized potential? Do you know how to become more effective at influencing...
Ascend by William Anton
Description Ascend is an innovative book embedded with powerful tools for leaders and offers an engaging way to share the path toward personal transformation with everyone. It presents a captivating allegory that helps leaders identify and breakthrough long-standing...

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