Coming Soon West Yorkshire 2026
Is Your Business Succession Ready?
Secure your legacy. Plan your transition. Protect what you've built.
Whether you’re thinking about succession, exiting via sale, scaling, or stepping back, there is something for you. Early planning can unlock opportunities, reduce risk, and help you achieve the best possible outcome while ensuring continuity for your business and community.
For Business Owners
This complimentary program is exclusively for qualifying business owners ready to take control of their future. Secure your place and explore your path forward.
For Advisors
To ensure meaningful engagement, diverse expertise mix, and maintain an optimal advisor-to-attendee ratio, we carefully limit the number of professional advisors at each event.
Interested in Participating? Contact us directly to discuss participation. Email: miles@eosector.com | Call: 07497 611 146
Secure your legacy. Plan your transition. Protect what you've built.
You’ve spent years building something valuable. Now it’s time to ensure it – and you -thrive for the years to come.
The stakes are high: Without a clear succession plan, you risk losing the wealth you’ve built, watching your business value erode, or being trapped longer than you want. But there’s good news: You have more options than you think.
Join the summit to explore every succession pathway available to you – from family transfers to strategic sales to management buyouts. You’ll discover which route aligns with your financial goals, your timeline, and your values.
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West Yorkshire
2026
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North Yorkshire
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Greater Manchester
2027
MANCHESTER
Liverpool City Region
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LIVERPOOL
Why Attend?
Imagine having complete clarity and confidence about your business’s future.
Attending this program will help you:
Gain Peace of Mind – Walk away knowing your business will thrive without you, whether you’re stepping back gradually or exiting completely.
Maximize Your Business Value – Discover proven strategies to increase your company’s worth before transition, protecting the wealth you’ve worked decades to build.
Avoid Costly Mistakes – Learn from experts who’ve guided hundreds of transitions, so you don’t lose money to tax pitfalls, poor timing, or family conflicts.
Secure Your Legacy – Ensure your employees, customers, and community continue to benefit from what you’ve created for generations to come.
Create Your Personal Freedom – Design a transition that gives you control over your timeline, whether that’s next year or in a decade.
Build Confidence in Your Successor – Identify and develop the right leaders who will honor your vision while taking the business forward.
Plus, you’ll receive personalized guidance during a private consultation with professional advisors who understand businesses like yours.
Navigate Your Succession with Confidence.
Succession Ready presents all the options available for transferring ownership – from family transfers to strategic sales to management buyouts.
We will spotlight the benefits and process of selling your business to your employees, one of the least understood, but most powerful succession paths.
Join the most trusted professionals who can help you grow value, unlock wealth, align personal goals, and position you, and your business for transition success.
Spotlight: Employee Ownership Trust.
Credits: John Bezzant, Employee Ownership Trust Expert, Legal Clarity
What if you could exit on your terms while:
- Securing top value for your business (often with significant tax advantages)
- Preserving your legacy and company culture you’ve built
- Protecting your employees’ livelihoods and giving them a stake in the success
- Maintaining continuity for customers and the community you serve
Employee Ownership (EO) is the fastest-growing succession strategy in the UK. It’s becoming the preferred path for owners who want financial reward AND lasting impact.
What is Employee Ownership?
Employee Ownership (EO) is a business succession model where employees acquire a meaningful stake and participate in the company’s long-term success. The most common UK structure is the Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), which enables owners to sell part or all of a business to employees in a tax-advantaged way while preserving the company’s legacy, values, and independence. The EOT is a type of trust that holds the majority of shares in a company on behalf of its employees.
It allows employees to benefit from the company’s success through ownership, without directly owning shares themselves. Pioneered in the UK in 2014, EOTs are growing not only in the UK, but globally including the US, Canada, and Australia where they have been adopted and adapted.
Manufacturing company he founded in 1986 and transitioned to 100% employee ownership in 2022.
Summit Overview
The state of business ownership and succession in the UK.
Data and trends for the UK, and the Yorkshire and Humber region.
- Key demographic trends in small business, with a spotlight on regional and manufacturing sectors.
- How size, composition, and ownership patterns are evolving—and what that means for your business.
Designing your succession and exit roadmap.
- Countless business owners will face pivotal decisions around growth, transition, or exit within the next decade.
- Early planning can unlock opportunities, reduce risk, and ensure continuity for your business and community.
Hands-on mapping of participant business goals and succession ambitions.
Exploring options: overview of all main succession routes.
Examine ownership transfer methodologies and the relative benefits and drawbacks of each.
Covering the mechanics and advantages of the options available for transferring ownership internally to employees or family members or selling externally to a third party.
- Trade Sales & MBOs: Maximizing Value While Protecting People.
- Family Succession: Making It Work Across Generations.
- Employee Ownership Trusts: EOTs explained.
Employee Ownership Deep Dive: Is It Right for Your Business?
EO in Practice: Models, Benefits, Myths. Practical guidance from EO-aligned professionals.
Case Studies: Businesses Who Made the EO Transition.
First-hand stories from successful local and regional employee ownership transitions. Focus on practical realities and impact.
Advisory Clinics: Connect with legal, financial, and EO specialists.
One-to-one 15-minute confidential sessions with qualified advisors (pre-booked)
Networking: Step toward an exit you'll be proud of.
Join owners who are planning exits aligned with their values.
The UK's Premier Regional Summit for Business Succession Planning
Who Attends?
Business Owners
Advisors
Experts
Investors
Government
Business Groups
Help shape the conversation
To tailor the summit to your needs, we’re inviting attendees to share the options they would most like to hear about at the time of registration.
Whether you’re thinking about succession, scaling, or stepping back there is something for you.
Secure your place and explore your path forward.