Darien George
Darien George is a thought leader and expert in the talent industry, having spent eighteen years focusing on talent acquisition, talent development, organizational leadership, and organizational change. Darien is the founder of Mackenzie Eason & Associates and has worked with Fortune 50 companies, private equity firms, and top CEOs. He works to fundamentally change the way organizations do business by focusing on building a strong culture around an organization's talent, resulting in unparalleled financial results. Darien is a frequent industry-expert media contributor and speaker. Darien believes in the ability to give back to your community and focuses primarily on nonprofits that work to help underserved children. His success and community contributions earned him recognition as a top 40 Under 40 area executive. Darien holds a bachelor of business administration from the University of Texas at Arlington and graduated from the Talent Management Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Entrepreneurial Studies Executive Course at London Business School, and the Howard University Sherpa Executive Coaching course. Darien still resides in his hometown of Fort Worth, where he enjoys playing soccer, scuba diving, traveling, and donating his time to local nonprofit organizations. Darien is married to his wife, Laurie, with two young boys, Harrison and Merritt, and an adopted daughter, Maddie.
Books by Darien George
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This insightful text serves as a guide to helping business owners and VCs buy and sell businesses while avoiding the common errors that so often lead to unhappy, unsuccessful handoffs. Expert advice fueled by years of experience in business acquisition and development comes from three separate entrepreneurs and will help keep your eyes open to all the avenues of mergers and acquisitions.
Every year, more than fifty thousand deserving entrepreneurs and executives attempt to sell a company they’ve worked tirelessly to build—yet more than 70 percent fail. Why? Because most deals are derailed by hidden dangers that leave both buyers and sellers blindsided. Broken Handoff: Saving Your Assets is a breakthrough book with rare and remarkably transparent insights into owning, buying, and selling a business. Exposing unexpected pitfalls and revealing hands-on solutions for the mergers and acquisitions process, Broken Handoff delivers tools to beat the odds and broker the deal you want. This definitive guide to business-ownership transactions is required reading for founders, CEOs, venture capitalists, mentors, and moguls.