Small Business Seminar - Stop Being the Bottleneck: How to Build a Business That Outlasts You

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Most business owners are building something that depends entirely on them, and they don’t realize it until it’s too late. In this talk, Tess Helmandollar breaks down the 10 Pillars of Transferable Value from her book The Legacy Link, revealing what actually makes a business scalable, sustainable, and sellable. Drawing from experience and hard-earned perspective, she’ll challenge the way you think about growth, leadership, and control, and introduce new concepts from her upcoming work, Toxic Grace, that exposes the hidden habits quietly holding businesses back. Whether you plan to sell, scale, or simply breathe again, this session will show you how to build a business that works for you, and outlasts you.

Tess Helmandollar is the founder of The Cognitive Creative and Growth Pro Partners, where she helps service-based and trade businesses turn chaos into scalable, sellable companies. With a background in journalism and business operations, she’s known for cutting through noise, identifying what’s holding a business back, and building the systems that unlock real growth. Inspired by her father’s HVAC business—and what was lost when it couldn’t be transitioned, Tess authored The Legacy Link, a framework for building businesses that outlast their founders. Her work challenges owners to stop surviving inside their companies and start building something that can thrive without them.