
Kerri Salls
MBA - Operations Management & Intl Mktg
MA, USKerri Salls is known as the most sought after exit strategist entrusted by owners of private and family owned companies to accelerate growth and maximize value to make their business buyer ready and buyer attractive. She is recognized for her revolutionary paradigm, transforming an income generating business into a wealth producing asset.
Kerri is leading a revolution in the exit planning field. A prominent value/growth exit strategist and mentor who prepares owners and entrepreneurs to achieve their optimum outcome, she created a new paradigmof Client-Centric Collaboration, Cooperation, and Coordination to help business owners Double Sales, Drive Value, and Deliver Results.
Kerri helps owners integrate strategic planning and growth with their exit strategy, as part of their business operations to reduce risk from the outset. Kerri is a visionary who works with owner/ entrepreneurs to harvest the wealth in their business to achieve their life's dream in business and beyond.
Kerri is a passionate and compelling speaker who delivers at least 10 presentations per year. Her presentations and interviews are featured in:
- US News and World Report
- Women's Business Boston Journal
- Womens Information Network.com
- EntrepreneurReinvention.com
- skillhighway.com
- Accomplish Magazine and Radio Show
- PRWeb
- Women for Women 980 WCAP radio
- MYOB The Radio Show
- The Lemonade Stand
- The Writer's Cafe
- Women in Enterprise Radio WSMN 1590
- Business Exit Roundtable
- Exit Coach Radio
- Walker on Wealth
- Exit This Way Radio
- M&A Source
In 2012, Kerri expand her services to host a podcast radio show, Exit This Way where she has recorded and produced over 240 episodes.
She has been a featured presenter by such far-ranging organizations as:
- The Women's Economic Summit
- Skill Highway
- Accomplish Magazine
- Women's Business Boston
- NAWBO
- NH Women's Business Conference
- Applause NH
- South Shore Women
- Power of 3/Business Reinvention Mediterranean Cruise
- Jim Doyle's Achievers Circle (for cable media industry)
- Tri-State Business Conference
- Alliance of M&A Advisors
- Mid-Market Alliance
- Merrimack Valley Estate Planning Council
- Liquid Capital
- Supporting Strategies Bootcamp
She presents for area and regional conferences, chapters and membership organizations extensively.
She has been a serial entrepreneur since 1988 after a very successful corporate career of multi-million dollar successes, preceded by two years in the Peace Corps in West Africa.
An internationally recognized authority on exit planning, Kerri is the author of hundreds of articles, numerous ebooks; two whitepapers:
- Don't Murder Your Business - A Declaration to Free CEOs
- How to Manage a Gaggle of Advisors to Build Your All-Star Exit Team
- Why Plan for Due Diligence (co-authored with John St. Clair)
her book
HARVEST Your Wealth
and home-study course
HARVEST Your Wealth - Private Home Study Program
Operating from a business base just outside Boston, Ma., since 1988, Kerri travels worldwide (including invitations to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Malaysia, Ghana, Congo), educating, training and mentoring owners with her systematic approach to leverage business for growth so an owner can sell/scale or pass their business on to successors, on their terms on their timeline and transition to their reinvention.
Kerri's extensive knowledge of the concerns, challenges and market conditions owners face ensures that the systems and strategies she shares are relevant and practical in a global economy for the continued success of the business and the owner's transition to reinvention (fka retirement).
As a seminar or workshop leader, she engages and empowers audiences with signature speeches:
- Early Exit Planning for Value
- Define Your End Game
- Best Kept Secret To a Successful Business
as well as other popularly requested topics.
- Succession Planning to Turn Income into Assets Owners Can Monetize
- The Business Owner Paradox
- Business Exit Strategy as a Framework
- 4 Steps to Monetize Your Business
For advisors:
- How to Work as an All-Star Exit Team
Her style is informal, informational, interactive, compelling and fast paced. Attendees always leave these content-rich presentations with powerful, easy to implement action steps to move business ahead.
Kerri Salls has a BA in French Literature from Bates College; an MBA in International Marketing and Operations Management from Boston University; publishes a monthly newsletter, Maximize Value. Short demo video available.
Kerri Salls is known as the most sought after exit strategist entrusted by owners of private and family owned companies to accelerate growth and maximize value to make their business buyer ready and buyer attractive. She is recognized for her revolutionary paradigm, transforming an income generating business into a wealth producing asset.
Kerri is leading a revolution in the exit planning field. A prominent value/growth exit strategist and mentor who prepares owners and entrepreneurs to achieve their optimum outcome, she created a new paradigmof Client-Centric Collaboration, Cooperation, and Coordination to help business owners Double Sales, Drive Value, and Deliver Results.
Kerri helps owners integrate strategic planning and growth with their exit strategy, as part of their business operations to reduce risk from the outset. Kerri is a visionary who works with owner/ entrepreneurs to harvest the wealth in their business to achieve their life's dream in business and beyond.
Kerri is a passionate and compelling speaker who delivers at least 10 presentations per year. Her presentations and interviews are featured in:
- US News and World Report
- Women's Business Boston Journal
- Womens Information Network.com
- EntrepreneurReinvention.com
- skillhighway.com
- Accomplish Magazine and Radio Show
- PRWeb
- Women for Women 980 WCAP radio
- MYOB The Radio Show
- The Lemonade Stand
- The Writer's Cafe
- Women in Enterprise Radio WSMN 1590
- Business Exit Roundtable
- Exit Coach Radio
- Walker on Wealth
- Exit This Way Radio
- M&A Source
In 2012, Kerri expand her services to host a podcast radio show, Exit This Way where she has recorded and produced over 240 episodes.
She has been a featured presenter by such far-ranging organizations as:
- The Women's Economic Summit
- Skill Highway
- Accomplish Magazine
- Women's Business Boston
- NAWBO
- NH Women's Business Conference
- Applause NH
- South Shore Women
- Power of 3/Business Reinvention Mediterranean Cruise
- Jim Doyle's Achievers Circle (for cable media industry)
- Tri-State Business Conference
- Alliance of M&A Advisors
- Mid-Market Alliance
- Merrimack Valley Estate Planning Council
- Liquid Capital
- Supporting Strategies Bootcamp
She presents for area and regional conferences, chapters and membership organizations extensively.
She has been a serial entrepreneur since 1988 after a very successful corporate career of multi-million dollar successes, preceded by two years in the Peace Corps in West Africa.
An internationally recognized authority on exit planning, Kerri is the author of hundreds of articles, numerous ebooks; two whitepapers:
- Don't Murder Your Business - A Declaration to Free CEOs
- How to Manage a Gaggle of Advisors to Build Your All-Star Exit Team
- Why Plan for Due Diligence (co-authored with John St. Clair)
her book
HARVEST Your Wealth
and home-study course
HARVEST Your Wealth - Private Home Study Program
Operating from a business base just outside Boston, Ma., since 1988, Kerri travels worldwide (including invitations to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Malaysia, Ghana, Congo), educating, training and mentoring owners with her systematic approach to leverage business for growth so an owner can sell/scale or pass their business on to successors, on their terms on their timeline and transition to their reinvention.
Kerri's extensive knowledge of the concerns, challenges and market conditions owners face ensures that the systems and strategies she shares are relevant and practical in a global economy for the continued success of the business and the owner's transition to reinvention (fka retirement).
As a seminar or workshop leader, she engages and empowers audiences with signature speeches:
- Early Exit Planning for Value
- Define Your End Game
- Best Kept Secret To a Successful Business
as well as other popularly requested topics.
- Succession Planning to Turn Income into Assets Owners Can Monetize
- The Business Owner Paradox
- Business Exit Strategy as a Framework
- 4 Steps to Monetize Your Business
For advisors:
- How to Work as an All-Star Exit Team
Her style is informal, informational, interactive, compelling and fast paced. Attendees always leave these content-rich presentations with powerful, easy to implement action steps to move business ahead.
Kerri Salls has a BA in French Literature from Bates College; an MBA in International Marketing and Operations Management from Boston University; publishes a monthly newsletter, Maximize Value. Short demo video available.
Early Exit Planning for Value
As a business owner, you know your biggest payday will only be when you sell your business.
To ensure your business becomes a wealth-producing machine, what do you need to do now?
In this presentation, as an advocate for early exit planning, exit strategist, Kerri Salls reveals strategies and a timeline to ensure you can cash out on your terms, on your timeline.
You will learn why you should think about your exit early:
• The seller's market window and the cost of...
1. Define Your End Game – Plan Your Exit From the Outset
If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, or an early stage entrepreneur launching your own business:
- What do you dream of achieving with your business?
- In the end, what do you want out of your business?
To ensure your business becomes a wealth-producing machine, you must define your end game from the outset.
In this presentation, exit strategist, Kerri Salls reveals strategies and secrets your expert advisors want you to know but no one told...
How to Build Your Business Value
Are you an entrepreneur or business owner looking to accelerate growth and add value to your business? Are you under pressure from investors to perform?
You wear many hats working in the business and working on the business. You know you must be vigilant about building value in your business from day one. When the value proposition for the business itself is stagnant or eroding, risks escalate.
Investors expect their principle to be returned with interest. Banks expect their...

