📚 Book Three · Launching October 15, 2026

The Owner Dependency Tax™ Series

Seen From Every Seat

Advisors, partners, perspectives — one goal: your client's freedom. The question to ask every owner you work with, and what to do with the answer.

By Joe Lorenz | Growth Advisor | BEI Owner Based Planner | Former Vistage Chair | Former EOS Implementer

Seen From Every Seat book cover

What's inside

Owner dependency from every chair at the table — and the shared language to do something about it.

1

The view from every chair

Attorney, CPA, wealth advisor, partner, key employee, buyer — how owner dependency looks and what it threatens from each seat.

2

The one question to ask every owner

"If you disappeared next Tuesday, what breaks first?" — and how to read the answer you get.

3

Why owner dependency kills deals

The transaction you've been building for three years unravels at diligence when the business can't run without the owner.

4

Send the owner in, get back a client who's ready

How to route an owner through the assessment and the Sprint, then pick up a materially more transferable business.

5

A shared language for the whole team

One framework and one scorecard every advisor around the client can point to — so the advice stops contradicting itself.

Who it's for

Attorneys, CPAs, wealth advisors, M&A advisors, and consultants who serve owner-led businesses and want the deal to close.

Talk to Joe about your clients

Identify owner-dependency risk before it derails a deal. Send the owner in — they do the work, you get back a client who's ready.