At Kolodacore, strategic business development means more than growth. It means ensuring every decision — from acquisition to succession — is rooted in clarity, discipline, and long-term value creation.

We bring over four decades of experience advising business owners, executives, and families through complex transitions — from buying and selling businesses to navigating leadership succession and post-exit strategies.

Our clients around the globe rely on our counsel because it is practical, discreet, and grounded in real-world outcomes.

Whether you're acquiring, divesting, transitioning leadership, or preparing for life after a major liquidity event, we help you think several moves ahead.

Our expertise includes:

• Pre- and post-acquisition discovery and due diligence — Comprehensive assessments of business health, leadership strength, cultural alignment and strategic fit.
• Business buying and selling advisory — Real-world expertise informed by direct experience, with involvement in more than a dozen business acquisitions by clients.
• Post-exit transition planning — Guidance for business owners and executives to navigate the personal and professional complexities of life after an exit.
• Succession planning for owners and key executives — Structuring leadership transitions to protect business continuity and preserve organizational culture.
• Culture change management — Supporting leadership teams and staff through ownership transitions to maintain stability, engagement, and trust.
• TIGER 21 insights — More than a decade of trusted dialogue with TIGER 21 members — some of the world's most accomplished entrepreneurs, investors, and wealth creators — provides us with unique perspectives on growth, transition, and legacy planning.

Acquisition discovery and due diligence

At Kolodacore, we bring more than theory to the table — we bring real-world experience. We have helped facilitate over a dozen acquisitions and sales, and it’s that depth of lived experience that shapes our approach to pre- and post-acquisition discovery and decision-making.

We help founders and owners, executive teams, and investors look beyond financial statements to assess the human, cultural, and leadership factors that determine whether an acquisition will succeed. Our discovery process illuminates operational strengths, leadership gaps, cultural dynamics, and governance risks — the factors that rarely show up in traditional due diligence but often define long-term outcomes.

Post-transaction, Kolodacore supports integration and leadership transition with the same level of discipline and discretion. Whether it's harmonizing decision-making frameworks, aligning cultures, or setting new leadership teams up for success, we ensure businesses don’t just change hands — they move forward with purpose and continuity.

Buying or selling a business is one of the most significant decisions a leader can make. At Kolodacore, we ensure those decisions are grounded in insight, experience, and a disciplined discovery framework.

Consider engaging Kolodacore when:

• Preparing to buy or sell a business
• Evaluating an acquisition target
• Structuring succession for continuity and growth
• Managing leadership transitions post-sale
• Building a personal post-exit roadmap
• Leading cultural integration after new ownership