Exit Factor

We assist small to medium-sized business owners in preparing their companies for sale by increasing the value of their businesses. 

We are a small team ourselves but owned by a large global organization. We have the feel of a small business with the resources of a multinational company. Exit Factor is a fully remote business with company offices nationwide. 

Embark on a transformative journey with the Exit Factor business consulting services – a trusted approach embraced by thriving businesses worldwide – to enhance profits, streamline operations, and elevate overall worth, whether considering an exit soon or planning for the future.

Exit Factor Owner - Essex County 

Scott Proposki, LLC 

I've spent the past three decades learning how to focus on my businesses so we can create a long-lasting company. 

We emphasize the strength within everyone to achieve success through passion, work ethic, creativity, and intellect.

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3 O'clock Coffee Podcast

The 3 O'clock Coffee Podcast, where extortionary people share ideas that can help others, CEOs, rockstars, business owners, students, or anyone with an exciting story to inspire others to see a bigger future. Coffee conversation with Scott Proposki, the host of The 3 O'clock Coffee Podcast.

Content Creator & Host

Business Made Simple

Business advisor in leadership and personal/business/organizational development with Donald Miller. 

We specialize in helping individuals and teams overcome obstacles and reach their full potential with a unique blend of evidence-based practices and creative problem-solving.

Partner

Photos In A Minute, LLC

Photos In A Minute provides photography services in events marketing with an experienced photography process of delivering a high-quality photo print on-site in less than a minute. 

Our clients range from small and more significant businesses; to National Geographic, Time Inc, Sports Illustrator, HBO, Google, and the White House with President Obama.

Founder | Onsite Event Photography | Nationwide Services 

Picture Marketing, Inc.

The Enterprise Photo Activation Company - 
For more than a decade, our team of technologists and marketers have been working on creating photo-sharing technology that delivers marketing benefits by putting the consumer in the center of the brand’s story.

We have created the ultimate platform for businesses that want to capture images of consumers as part of a business process and then leverage the marketing benefit as the images get shared.

With the ability to deliver globally, we offer software and technology that “just works” in the real world while delivering sophisticated marketing benefits.

Partnerships Specialist

As an early adopter of event photography turned entrepreneur, Scott has partnered with other world-class leaders in the industry to launch a nationwide team of photographers to market big brands nationwide.

Worldwide Business Development Team

The Eagle-Tribune

Marketing photographer for five brand newspaper firms in the Boston (MA EagleTribune Publishing: The Lawrence Eagle Tribune, Salem Daily News, Newburyport News, Gloucester Times and Andover Townsman)

 Advertisement &  Marketing Photographer

President | Business Exit Advisor | Exit Factor Essex County

The results speak for themselves: The Exit Factor's program participants have witnessed remarkable returns. Within the first year alone, clients have reported a notable 25% surge in profits and an impressive 56.7% increase in the value of their businesses. Notably, the success rate for those who have opted to sell stands at a remarkable 100%.

In the face of challenges confronting business owners, particularly amid uncertain times like the global pandemic, Exit Factor steps in with customized exit plans designed to safeguard the long-term value of businesses. Through a proven process, Exit Factor empowers owners to seize control of their businesses by maximizing profitability, efficiency, and overall value right from the start, irrespective of their immediate plans to sell.

Scott Proposki, boasting a rich background spanning two decades in the event and hospitality industry, coupled with prior roles as a National Geographic and White House photographer, intimately understands the necessity for swift adaptation amidst turbulent circumstances. Recognizing the paramount importance of having a clear exit and business strategy, Proposki embarked on his journey as an Exit Factor owner. Leveraging his extensive experience and resources, he stands ready to assist fellow business owners in navigating unpredictable obstacles.

Scott Proposki

The Shine Hope Company

The Shine Hope Company is on a mission to measure and teach everyone around the world the ‘how’ to hope, based on my research that hope is a teachable skill. We do this through workplace consulting, Hopeful Mindsets courses, research, consumer products, and books, which were all curated by the best-in-class researchers in mental health and hope science. 

Hope is predictive of retention, performance, productivity, and engagement, and is a protective factor against anxiety and depression. Additionally, hope is a precursor to happiness and resilience, meaning we need to activate hope to feel happy and have resilience. Hopelessness is learned through adversity and is often a consequence of oppression and discrimination; hope is also learnable, but only if we teach it.

Hopelessness is rising at unprecedented rates around the world, especially among youth. Thus, we aim to ensure everyone is equipped with the skills they need to activate hope, even in the most challenging of times. As part of our mission, we support the International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression (iFred), including their Hopeful Minds and Hopeful Cities programming, to ensure youth are taught hope skills at no charge.

The time for hope is now. Join our mission to activate hope today.

Chief Hope Officer

WFMH World Federation for Mental Health

Serve as a representative at the United Nations for the World Federation for Mental Health, representing the over 1 billion globally that are challenged with mental health conditions.

United Nations Representative for the World Federation for Mental Health

The Mood Factory

We have one goal at The Mood Factory; to improve moods. Learn about how to engage your senses at www.themoodfactory.com. Visit us on social @getyourmoodon #chooseyourmood

Chief Mood Officer

iFred, International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression

Founder of iFred (www.ifred.org), with the award winning program Hopeful Minds (www.hopefulminds.org). Developed a free curriculum for Hope, based on research that hope is a teachable skill, with evidence it is reducing anxiety, and improving emotional regulation, hope, confidence, and resilience in youth. Have been featured speaker around the globe on marketing, mental health, depression, and eradicating stigma. Kathryn is a global mental health adviser, serving on advisory boards for Global Mental Health Movement, Y Mental Health, FundaMentalSDG and Women's Brain Project.

Founder

Innovative Analysis, Inc.

Serve as business strategist for new product launches, rebranding, and marketing.

Business Strategist

Compass Marketing

Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Partners Creative

Account Executive

American Express

Multiple positions in marketing, all with progressively increasing levels of responsibility.

New Products, Marketing, and Promotions

Research Analyst and Project Manager

Developed, managed and completed research project for Traffic Control Materials Division.  Short-term assignment.

Novak and Macey

Office Manager

I can't give you hope, yet I can teach you 'how' to hope. And what a difference it makes. #ShineHope

Kathryn Goetzke is Founder, Chairman, and Chief Hope Officer at The Shine Hope Company. She activates the workplace on the science of hope, created an evidence-based college course 'Hopeful Mindsets' on the College Campus, and through her nonprofit Ifred created award-winning Hopeful Minds and Hopeful Cities. She is the author of 'The Biggest Little Book About Hope', and podcast host of The Hope Matrix. 

In 2004, Kathryn launched Mood-lites™, a brand that achieved over 35 million dollars in retail sales with the first nationwide cause marketing campaign for mental health. She was recently appointed a role to represent the World Federation for Mental Health at the United Nations, representing almost 1 billion people around the world with mental health disorders.

Kathryn is a global mental health ambassador, overcoming her own battles with depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD and addictions through therapy, medication, lifestyle changes, support, and learning how to hope. She lost her father to suicide at 18 and knows all too well the negative consequences of untreated mental health on both the self and the family system. 

Ms. Goetzke began her career with 3M Corporation in research and moved to lead rebranding IDS mutual funds to American Express, had a role in advertising account management, and moved to serve as the VP of Sales and Marketing for Compass Marketing. She then launched her own company and brand, with a social impact model before it was a thing.

Kathryn and her work have been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Home, InStyle, Scholastic Choices Magazine, and others. She has spoken at the United Nations, the Global Mental Health Movement Conference in Athens and South Africa, at Mental Health Community Associations Conference, The Kennedy Forum, The World Bank, the Scent Marketing Institute, and more. She has been featured on multiple radio and television shows including BBC, WGN Chicago, CBS Chicago, Tasty Trade, and eWomenNetwork. Ms. Goetzke serves on advisory boards for FundaMentalSDG, Y Mental Health, Women’s Brain Project, and the Global Mental Health Movement, and on the board of Hope Means Nevada.

Kathryn has an MBA in International Marketing Management from the University of St. Thomas, and a BA in Psychology.

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