You built this business. But every decision still runs through you.
You heard about The Alternative Board on Built to Sell Radio. Here is what John Warrillow knows: owners who surround themselves with the right peers make better decisions, build stronger companies, and walk into an exit on their own terms.
The Peer Advisory Partner of Built to Sell Radio
Built to Sell Radio exists for one idea: the most valuable business is one that can run without you. That is what the Business Builder’s Advantage™ is built to deliver, the system TAB has refined over more than 30 years to help owners build companies that stand on their own.
Most owners try to get there alone, piecing together advice wherever they can find it. A tip from a friend here, a consultant there, an article they saved and never finished. The pieces rarely add up to a plan. The Business Builder’s Advantage brings them into one connected system: a monthly board of fellow owners, a coach in your corner, and programs for strategy, stronger management, and planning that work on their own or together.
It starts with the board. By the time most owners go looking for one, the usual sources of advice have run dry. Your team looks to you for the answers. The people closest to you cannot fully picture what the job feels like. The heaviest decisions are the ones you end up making alone. Around a TAB board, you sit with owners who have been in that same seat, and that board becomes your way into everything else the Advantage offers. TAB has done this since 1990, with more than 25,000 businesses.
Five Proven Solutions. All Working Together.
Each part of Business Builder's Advantage delivers value on its own. Choose what fits your needs. When you combine them, the results compound.
Peer Advisory Boards
Join a small group of business owners who offer honest perspective and hold each other accountable. Success grows in good company.
Leadership Coaching
Work one on one with a seasoned business coach who helps you stay focused, make better decisions, and lead with intention.
Strategic Transformation with StratPro®
Align your top performers around a shared vision, clear priorities, and disciplined execution.
HI-MAP™ Leadership Development
Build strong leaders with structured, real-world training that strengthens skills, confidence, and communication across your team.
Blueprint™ Business Planning Portal
Develop a strategic blueprint for focused execution. Track your strategy with structure and flexibility as your business evolves.
What changes when you join TAB
Better decisions, faster
You stop relying on your own perspective alone. A board of experienced owners helps you see around corners before you commit.
Less isolation
Running a company is lonely. Your board becomes the group of people who understand the weight you carry, because they carry it too.
A business that works without you
Your board holds you accountable to building systems, developing your team, and stepping out of the day-to-day. That is how you build a company someone would want to buy.
Thinking about selling in the next five to ten years?
The owners who get the best outcomes at exit are the ones who spent years building a business that does not depend on them. That means a leadership team that can run the place without you, a strategy that keeps moving when you step back, and a growth story a buyer can trust.
That is the work StratPro® does. It is TAB’s leadership transformation program, built to create clarity at the top, align your leadership team, and keep execution on track as you pull back from the day to day. Run alongside your monthly board, it turns exit-readiness into something you build on purpose, year over year, rather than a scramble in the final stretch.
If you are not ready to talk to anyone yet, start with a short assessment. It takes a few minutes and gives you an honest look at where your business stands today.