Brad BurklundFounder & CEO
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.
“My dad and I have worked with Brad for a few years now, as we have been wrestling with management and transition challenges within our family business. What I appreciate about Brad is that he’s not ultimately trying to sell you anything. Many “business advisors” are ultimately trying to steer you towards insurance, complicated legal work, investments, etc. Brad is different in that he’s there to look at your situation as a whole, and provide you unbiased advice based on what he thinks is best. Whether you take that advice, or implement his strategies, is ultimately up to you. He’s great at helping you stay on the path that you decide on, and is always there any time we have a question or need clarification on an issue.”
