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What happens to your clients, your team, and your business when it is time for you to step back?
Succession planning in financial advice is often spoken about as a sale, a valuation, or the transfer of a client book. But the real challenge runs much deeper. It involves trust, relationships, staff, systems, identity, purpose, and the emotional weight of letting go of something you have spent years building.
In this episode of PROpulsion LIVE, Francois du Toit looks at the practical and emotional challenges of succession in a financial planning business.
We will explore why transferring a book is not the same as transferring trust, why many advice businesses are harder to hand over than they appear, and why advisers often underestimate the personal side of succession.
We will also look at the responsibility advisers carry towards clients, staff, family, and the next owner or successor.
The 2026 theme for PROpulsion LIVE is From Knowing to Doing. So this episode will not only focus on what advisers should know about succession. It will focus on what advisers can start doing now to prepare their business, their clients, their team, and themselves for a better handover.
In this episode, we cover:
• Why succession starts long before the deal
• The practical challenges of transferring books, relationships, staff, and systems
• The emotional challenge of letting go of a business you built
• The responsibility advisers have towards clients, staff, family, and successors
• A practical staged strategy to move through succession with more clarity
This episode is for financial planners, financial advisers, advice business owners, practice managers, and anyone thinking about the future of an advice business.
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