What if you were gone tomorrow?
How Your Business Executor Started
Most entrepreneurs spend years building their business.
But very few prepare for what would happen if they suddenly couldn’t run it.
Your Business Executor was created to help business owners (especially sole owners) and self-employed professionals organize the critical information, systems, and plans needed so their family, clients, and team know exactly what to do if life unexpectedly interrupts their ability to run their business.
After experiencing firsthand how overwhelming it can be to manage a loved one’s affairs, Your Business Executor Founder, Jodi Laking, began thinking about how much more complicated this situation can become when a business is involved.
Many business owners keep important information in their heads — passwords, systems, financial details, client relationships, and operational processes.
If something unexpected happens, families are often left trying to piece together how the business works while also navigating an emotional and stressful time.
That experience led her to create Your Business Executor.
Her goal is simple:
To help business owners and self-employed professionals organize and document the critical information needed so the people who depend on their business are never left in chaos.
How YBE Helps Business Owners and Self-Employed Professionals
Through guided planning, consulting, and educational programs, I help entrepreneurs:
document how their business operates
organize critical business information and accounts
clarify who would step in if they were unavailable
create a contingency plan for their business
Together, we build a Business Executor Plan — a practical roadmap for how the business can continue, pause responsibly, or transition if life interrupts your ability to run it.
Why Work with YBE?
Founder, Jodi Laking, has been an entrepreneur for 25+ years and bring over 15 years of experience working with business owners and self-employed professionals as a business coach and consultant. During that time, she has supported hundreds of business owners in starting, building, scaling, managing, and closing their operations.
Your Business Executor combines her experience in business operations, planning, and entrepreneurship with a deep understanding of how important it is to protect the businesses people work so hard to build.
Your Business Executor focuses on operational planning and organization.
Jodi Laking is not a lawyer or legal advisor. She works alongside legal, financial, and regulatory professionals to help ensure the operational side of your business is clearly documented and accessible.
How YBE can help?
Help business owners prepare for their future and the future of their business.
Work with self-employed individuals and business owners (especially sole owners) to organize and clearly document their accounts, investments, partnerships and affiliations, insurance policies, benefits plans, and other operational and administrative policies in one central place for you to easily access today and in the future.
Ensure that wills and accounts are in place and accessible.
Work with business owners and self-employed individuals, as well as other business professionals such as lawyers, accountants, financial advisors, etc. to ensure that resources and legal documents are in place and updated for next of kin to properly access everything.
Help educate business owners.
Help educate self-employed individuals and business owners to understand the rights of their next of kin, family, business partner(s), clients, vendors, etc. after they are gone or incapacitated.
Work with your next of kin.
Help spouses and partners, especially those who are not entrepreneurs, understand their options when their entrepreneurial partner has passed or is incapacitated.
YBE can be named as business executor or work alongside spouses, family or business partners to manage the business estate.
Share your plans and processes with your next of kin.
Meet with business owners or self-employed individuals and their spouse, business partner, children, and other next of kin to guide them through the processes their next of kin will follow to access their business details, accounts, financials, assets, and policies after they are gone or incapacitated.
Be a centralized space to access tools and resources.
Provide a directory of tools and resources for individuals and business owners to learn about wills, probate, estate planning, legacy planning, and succession planning.
Offer a customized, guided planning tool – The Dahlias Planner – to help business owners document their plans and operational business details in a centralized space.