Ownership. Operations. Advisory. There is rarely only one path to business ownership.
Plan B and C, Inc. provides business ownership advisory and strategic consulting for people, businesses, and opportunities at points where the obvious answer is not necessarily the right one. As a business ownership advisor, I help experienced professionals evaluate whether ownership belongs in the conversation and, if it does, which path deserves serious consideration. Sometimes the work is personal. Sometimes it is operational. Sometimes it involves a business, a partnership, or an opportunity we choose to pursue directly.
Clarity before activity.
A lot of bad decisions start with a solution in search of a problem. I prefer to work the other way around.
Different work. The same operating discipline.
Plan B and C grew out of decades of work across operations, healthcare, procurement, supply chain, consulting, and business ownership. The portfolio reflects that experience.
Business Ownership Advisor for Experienced Professionals
I work with experienced professionals who are questioning what comes next and want to understand whether self-employment or business ownership belongs in that conversation.
Business ownership consulting starts with the person, not the product. We do not begin with a franchise, a listing, or a predetermined answer. We begin with the objective, the economics, the operating role, the amount of risk that makes sense, and the life the business is supposed to support.
- Business acquisition
- Franchising
- Independent business
- Licensing
- Distributorships
- Consulting
- Portfolio ownership
- Staying put for now
Consulting & Operational Leadership
Select advisory and fractional engagements involving procurement, supply chain, strategic sourcing, contracts, operations, process improvement, organizational readiness, and business development.
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Plan B and C also develops and participates in opportunities directly, including healthcare and distribution initiatives, strategic partnerships, and businesses we operate ourselves.
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I’ve made the transition myself.
I spent a large part of my career inside organizations, in leadership roles where the work was complex, the budgets were real, and decisions had consequences.
When I moved into consulting, I started the way a lot of experienced executives do: with the work I knew how to do and the relationships I had built over the years. That eventually became a full practice.
But being self-employed is not just doing your old job without a boss. You have to find the work. Market the business. Price it. Negotiate the agreement. Manage the contract. Get paid. Maintain the relationship. Decide what to pursue and what to walk away from. Then get up the next morning and do it again.
That experience shapes how I work as a business ownership advisor with someone considering the same kind of transition. I can help evaluate a franchise, a business acquisition, an independent business, a consulting practice, or another ownership model. But the more important conversation comes first: what are you trying to build, and what kind of business gives you a reasonable chance of getting there?
Sometimes the answer is a franchise. Sometimes it is not. And sometimes the smartest decision is not to buy anything yet.
Business ownership planning should start with more than one option.
Franchising is one path, but it is not the path. The right structure depends on the person, the opportunity, the capital available, the amount of control you want, and what you are actually trying to accomplish.
The range is not accidental.
My career has crossed emergency medical services, healthcare operations, research, procurement, supply chain, consulting, and business ownership. I have worked in Director, Vice President, and President-level roles, including assignments where the job was to walk into a difficult situation, understand it quickly, and get things moving in the right direction.
Across those environments I have dealt with budgets, contracts, vendors, people, systems, compliance, negotiations, operational problems, organizational politics, and the practical consequences of decisions that looked much cleaner on paper.
That background is part of what I bring to the work as a business ownership advisor and strategic business advisor. Plan B and C is built around accumulated operating experience. Some of it is used to advise. Some is used to help people build something of their own. Some is put to work directly in businesses and opportunities we choose to pursue.
Experience is more useful when you put it to work.
The company is intentionally broader than a single consulting practice. These activities are different expressions of the same operating background, relationships, and willingness to pursue an opportunity when it makes sense.
Corporate Refugee
Business ownership consulting for experienced professionals considering life beyond the traditional corporate path.
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Select operational, procurement, supply chain, sourcing, business development, and fractional leadership engagements.
Explore →Healthcare & Distribution
Opportunities and relationships drawing on decades of healthcare, procurement, supply chain, and vendor-side experience.
Explore →Real Franchise Guy
Franchise-specific resources and advisory work for people who determine that franchising belongs among the options they should evaluate.
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Businesses and projects in which Plan B and C is an owner, operator, developer, or active participant.
Explore →Matt Agnese
Background, experience, professional work, and the career behind Plan B and C.
About Matt →Start with a business ownership advisor, not a predetermined answer.
If you are considering ownership, working through an operating problem, looking at a partnership, or have an opportunity worth discussing, start with the conversation. We can figure out where it belongs from there.
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