The Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) credential is for professional advisors who want to effectively engage more business owners.
Through the exit planning process, when utilizing the Value Acceleration Methodology, owners build more valuable companies, create stronger personal financial plans, and achieve personal goals.
Eighty percent of an owner’s wealth is locked within their business. While you may have the opportunity to manage the 20% in liquid assets now, play the long game, be a strategic partner to your clients and help them achieve the potential they’ve worked so hard to earn.
Financial Advisors put clients on a fast track to liquidity by unlocking the wealth within an owner’s business, making you one of the most critical advisors on an owner’s succession planning team.
Create a lifelong relationship tapping into both short term and long term wins when you bring business exit planning to the conversation.
The CEPA Credential will help you:
Differentiate yourself from the competition
Gain greater access to business owners
Become essential to a business owner’s advisory team
Have deeper and more holistic conversations with owners
Grow your referral network of professional advisors
Access hundreds of marketing and business development tools
“CEPA Masterclass is by far the most useful and engaging content I’ve studied of any designation.”
Michael Sheppard
CFP®, CPFA, CEPA | 2nd Managing Partner at IronwoodDrive Financial Group
“Intuitive, concise, and helpful.”
“As a former institutional investor and equity research analyst, I found the Value Acceleration Methodology intuitive, concise, and helpful. It is a great distillation of value enhancers for almost any business. What I took the most out of though, was the team nature of providing services and how to best help on the personal side.”
“If you want to work with business owners, the CEPA designation is essential”
“The CEPA designation is one of the most valuable and useful designations I have in working with business owners. It gave me a knowledge base, vocabulary and process to speak with any Business Owner with confidence. If you want to work with business owners, the CEPA designation is essential.”
Charles M. Jarrett
CFP®, CPWATM, CEPA, CIMA®, ChFC, CLU, CRPC® | Private Wealth Advisor at Merrill Lynch Private Bank & Investment Group Senior Vice President
“An instrumental tool I use when working with business owners”
“The CEPA program continues to be an instrumental tool I use when working with business owners. It has been an honor to educate as a faculty member and meet the new CEPA graduates. Our advisors continue to integrate the foundation of the Exit Planning Institute into our conversations with clients.”
Justin Goodbread
CFP®, CEPA®, CVGA® | CSO of WealthSource Partners, LLC.
“CEPA gave me a better vocabulary to use with business owners”
“I have been doing exit planning since 2006 but did not call it Exit Planning at the time. CEPA gave me a better vocabulary to use with Business Owners to have more in-depth conversations. It also gave me a framework and process to talk through with Owners. My conversations went from messy to more succinct by going through the CEPA program.”
Andrew "Drew" McLaughlin
Financial Advisor at UBS Private Wealth Management
“The best exit planning designation out there”
This is the best exit planning designation out there. You get a great education through the class and you get continued support from the staff and the network that you get to know through the program.
Participants who successfully complete the CEPA program, and pass the closed book proctored exam, receive the Certified Exit Planning Advisor ® (CEPA®) credential. The CEPA program also qualifies for continuing educational credits with professional associations such as CFP and NASBA (CPE).
Membership
After completion of the CEPA Program, you will have taken a critical step toward becoming the Advisor of the Future by earning your credential and becoming a member of the Exit Planning Institute.
Your membership with EPI will provide you with powerful member benefits, including the knowledge, tools, and skills you will need to deliver exemplary exit planning strategies, advice, and support for your clients. Your purchase of the Certified Exit Planning Advisor program includes your first year of Credentialed Plus Membership dues. Explore your benefits by clicking below.
Registration Includes
5-Day CEPA Credentialing Program experience
Program manual including presentations and exercises
Pre-CEPA onboarding session with Member Experience team
Faculty Q&A and networking sessions
CEPA examination fee
Beyond CEPA implementation session
1-Year of Credential Plus Membership
Walking to Destiny: 11 Actions an Owner MUST Take to Rapidly Grow Value & Unlock Wealth (Book)
To find out if your unique designation qualifies for continuing education credits contact us now.
To find out if your unique designation qualifies for continuing education credits contact us now.
To find out if your unique designation qualifies for continuing education credits contact us now.
Bundle With CEPA: Implementing the 120-Day CEPA Playbook
You have the Playbook, but do you know how to execute the plays? Having the knowledge and the skills is the first step to a successful practice. Butmost advisors fall short when it comes to implementation.
Implementing the 120-Day CEPA Playbook is an expansion of the playbook you receive in your post-CEPA training. Together with Scott Snider, President of the Exit Planning Institute, you will lay the foundation for implementing the training, tools, and knowledge into your practice. Throughout this course, Scott will help you establish the rhythm of your practice and provide helpful hints and key insights from his own experience. You will learn how to build out exit planning practices, service lines, and marketing programs.
This three-lesson, on-demand, interactive masterclass equips you with the framework, tools, and knowledge to successfully implement your CEPA training and maximize your return on investment.
This three-module course is an expansion of the playbook and introductory call by the Exit Planning Institute that instructs advisors on the first 120-days post-CEPA program. Together with the creator of the playbook, President of EPI Scott Snider, the attendee will lay the foundation for implementing the training, tools, and knowledge into their practice as either a chargeable service, marketing strategy, or both.
Platform:EPI Academy
Style:Online / Self-Paced
CEPA Exam Prep Course
The CEPA Exam Prep Course is a recommended add-on course produced by the creators of the CEPA exam and is intended to fully prepare candidates to successfully pass their test with ease. Strengthen your knowledge of exit planning core concepts and expand your opportunities by receiving additional and exclusive insights from your CEPA faculty, along with your own study guide and sample test questions.
This course allows you to focus in on key areas prior to the start of your CEPA program and includes:
Course walkthrough, core concepts to know, test tips, and Q&A.
Both a physical and digital version of the CEPA Exam Prep Guide.
Already registered for CEPA, but still want to add on the Exam-Prep Course? Get it here.