Leaving any business that you’ve spent a career — and in many cases a lifetime — building into a provider for your family and the families of those employees that helped along the way can be a challenge, to say the least.

Beacon Exit Planning President Kevin Kennedy, a former owner of Elmira, N.Y. - based Evans Roofing, knows this first-hand having walked the exit-planning path himself. Through it, he learned what to do — and what not to do — and turned his experience into a new career advising roofing contractors and other business leaders how to successfully plan their exit.