Ryan Tansom

Background

About Ryan Tansom

My journey started in my family business, where I helped turn our $21 million company around and facilitate its eight-figure sale to a competitor in 2014. That sale was supposed to be the dream ending, but it didn’t go as planned. We paid over 50% in taxes, lost more than half our team, and I walked away questioning everything. That experience lit a fire under me to figure out what we could have done differently—creating more sustainable cash flow, growing equity value, mitigating taxes, and decoupling myself from the day-to-day grind. 🤦 Over the last decade, I’ve founded multiple businesses, participated in dozens of transactions, and gone on a mission to help other business owners avoid the same pitfalls. My ten-year therapy session led me to create the Independence by Design™ Ownership Framework, a complete ownership system for owner-operators. This framework helps you generate sustainable cash flow, grow the equity value of your business, and free yourself from the day-to-day so you can have the independence to do more of what you love. Along the way, I started a podcast with over 400 episodes, spoke on hundreds of stages (Vistage, EO, industry associations, etc.), and created a training program that’s been experienced by over owner-operators. Through it all, I realized there are plenty of frameworks like EOS© to help you "work in" your business—but few, if any, systems to help you "work on" your business and what it really means to be an owner. Today, I’m still speaking, podcasting, and teaching via my workshops. I also lead a coaching program called the iBD Ownership Accelerator™, which helps owner-operators get unstuck from the day-to-day and design a business—and a life—that aligns with their goals.