Don't Just Build a Business.
Build an Asset.
Helping manufacturing and industrial owners build companies that are more profitable, more transferable, and ultimately more valuable.
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Mike's signature talks
BUILT FOR EXIT
The Five Value Drivers That Make Manufacturing Companies Worth More
FOR MANUFACTURING OWNERS & LEADERS
Mike takes owners inside the five value drivers buyers actually evaluate: earnings quality, customer quality, operational transferability, competitive advantage, and growth runway.
This isn’t a talk about selling your business. It’s about building one that gives you options.
BREAKING THE OWNER BOTTLENECK
How to Build a Company That Can Grow Without You
FOR OWNERS READY TO SCALE BEYOND THEMSELVES
The qualities that helped an owner build the company can eventually become the very things holding it back.
Mike shows owners how to identify where customers, decisions, relationships, and knowledge have become too dependent on them—and how reducing that dependency creates a company that can scale, operate independently, and become more valuable.
THE REVENUE TRAP
Why Growing Your Business Doesn’t Always Make It More Valuable
FOR GROWTH-MINDED BUSINESS OWNERS
More revenue doesn’t automatically mean more value.
Mike challenges the growth-at-all-costs mindset by showing how certain kinds of growth can create lower margins, customer dependency, owner dependency, cash demands, and risk instead of enterprise value.
The question isn’t simply, “How big can we make the company?”
It’s: “Are we building a bigger business or a more valuable one?”
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Mike Fritz
Manufacturing Entrepreneur | M&A Advisor | CEO | Author
Mike Fritz has spent his career building, buying, operating, and selling businesses. Today, he brings that experience to manufacturing owners who want to build companies that are more valuable, more transferable, and less dependent on them.
Having sat on multiple sides of a transaction—as an owner, buyer, seller, and now M&A advisor Mike understands the difference between building a successful company and building a valuable asset. He has acquired businesses, stepped inside them after the deal closed, and experienced firsthand what separates a company that looks good on paper from one that can actually perform without the previous owner holding it together.
That perspective became the foundation for Built for Exit, Mike's approach to helping manufacturing owners strengthen the five drivers that ultimately shape enterprise value: earnings quality, customer quality, operational transferability, competitive advantage, and growth runway.
Mike's message isn't about convincing owners to sell. It's about helping them build companies that give them options whether they want to grow for another twenty years, bring in a partner, transition to the next generation, or eventually exit on their own terms.
BOOK MIKE TO SPEAK. GIVE EVERY ATTENDEE A COPY OF BUILT FOR EXIT.
Select speaking engagements include up to 100 complimentary copies.
Built for Exit gives manufacturing owners a practical framework for building a company that is worth more, runs with less dependence on the owner, and creates more options for the future.
Built around the same principles as Mike’s signature keynote, the book breaks down the five value drivers that shape how buyers see a manufacturing company and how owners can begin strengthening them long before a transaction is ever on the table.
Readers will learn how to:
- Strengthen earnings quality and build more predictable profitability
- Improve customer quality and reduce concentration risk
- Create a business that can operate without depending on the owner
- Build a real competitive advantage buyers can understand
- Develop a credible growth runway for the next owner
- Identify the risks that can quietly suppress enterprise value
Because the best time to build a sellable business is long before you need to sell it.
DON’T JUST HIRE A SPEAKER.
HIRE SOMEONE WHO HAS SAT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE.
Looking for a keynote speaker who understands what actually makes a manufacturing company more valuable?
Mike Fritz brings more than business theory to the stage. He has built companies, acquired them, operated them after the deal closed, sold businesses, and today works alongside manufacturing owners as an M&A advisor.
His keynotes give owners a practical look at the decisions that shape enterprise value long before a buyer ever enters the picture—from earnings and customer quality to owner dependency, competitive advantage, and future growth.
Mike’s approach is straightforward, practical, and grounded in real operating experience. Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of where value is being created, where it may be leaking, and what they can begin changing now to build a stronger company.
LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR EVENT.
Whether you’re planning an annual conference, manufacturing association meeting, executive event, or owner-focused program, let’s find the right keynote for your audience.
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