Game-Changing Advisory Boards: Leveraging Outside Wisdom to Deliver Sustainable Value

UPDATED EDITION: January 2025. Learn how the owners of 21 privately owned companies
used advisory boards to realize $5.1 Billion when they sold. Owners reveal how use the
Sustainable Value Wheel(TM) to build value. The authors have been members or chairmen or
owners of over 100 boards, comprising advisory, fiduciary and ESOP structures. They share
what other owners, their teams, buyers, investment bankers, attorneys and accountants do to
create and realize exceptional value. This how-to book won the Pinnacle Book Achievement
Award in business. It is easy to read, full of valuable advice and critical questions that every
owner must answer to build a board and create exceptional, sustainable value.

Author: John Zaepfel,William Hawfield
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 04/04/2013
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781478221135

About the Author
John Zaepfel has a varied and successful business career as a CEO, board chairman and CEO coach. He has served on fifty-two public and private company boards and currently serves on several boards as the non-executive chairman.

He is a past member of the Young Presidents Organization and is a group chairman and speaker with Vistage International.

John has an MBA degree from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

William Hawfield is a professional manager, CEO and business owner who has served on thirty-five boards, both advisory and fiduciary, either as a member or chairman.

He is a faculty member for the National Association of Corporate Directors, Family Business programs and has spoken at the NACD national conference workshops. He is also a highly rated speaker for Vistage International and is a long time member.

Bill has a MBA degree from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

The authors have used professional advisory boards to build businesses with sustainable value in over 80 companies with combined revenues of more than $5 billion. Several of these businesses sold and collectively, the owners received over $1.1 Billion.

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