About Me

headshot of Brad Burklund
Areas of expertise
  • Family Business Transition
  • Business Analysis and Planning
  • Family Dynamics in Business
  • Exit Planning
Education
  • BS, Business/Management, Trinity University
  • London School of Economics

Brad Burklund is a multi business entrepreneur who built Strategic Solutions, an exit planning firm specializing in working with family business owners preparing their firms to transition. He enjoys helping owners create strategies that incorporate the family relationships, as well as helping them answer the important questions that are often overlooked in coordinating the different pieces needed for a successful family business transition.

I help owners ask the right questions to plan a successful and fulfilling transition.

Brad is a Nebraska native, who attended Trinity University in San Antonio TX and the London School of  Economics.  He has a passion for learning and adventure having visited most of the world’s continents.  He tried bungee jumping in Australia, walked on the Great Wall in China, and has taken several mission trips to Uganda and Haiti with his wife and daughter.

Brad connects with owners because he’s been one.  He spent 31 years in their family business working in multiple roles including President.  He purchased the multi-location business with his brother from their father, and oversaw multiple acquisitions and sales of different operating divisions.  This history gives him tremendous insight, experience, and understanding to work through all the issues and challenges in running and transitioning a family business.  He has sat in all the chairs and had siblings and his own children working inside and outside the business.

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