Founder Transition & Succession
Can the business succeed without depending on the founder?

We help owners turn successful businesses into stronger, more professional, scalable and transferable enterprises.
Building a successful business is one achievement. Building an enterprise that can thrive beyond its founder is another. We help you make that transition.
Every transformation starts with a real challenge facing the owner. Perhaps one of these feels familiar.




We diagnose the situation, identify what matters most and assemble the relevant capabilities around your business.
Start a ConversationNot six disconnected departments. Six interdependent dimensions, brought together around one transformation agenda.
Can the business succeed without depending on the founder?
What will make the company fundamentally stronger and more valuable?
Where should profitable growth come from?
Does the organisation have the leadership capability to execute?
Can the operating system deliver the promise efficiently and reliably?
How can technology multiply the capability of the business?
ENTERPRISE STRENGTH
One business. Six dimensions. One transformation agenda.
Understand the business, the owner’s ambitions and the underlying constraints.
Focus on the changes that will create the greatest enterprise value.
Turn priorities into a practical, connected transformation agenda.
Work alongside owners and management to make change happen.
Build new capabilities into everyday decisions and management behaviour.
Track results, strengthen accountability and sustain performance.
Founder-led companies are often built on commitment, instinct, relationships and entrepreneurial energy. Those same strengths can later create dependency.
Can the company perform, grow and create value beyond the founder?
LEGAVANCE helps successful privately owned businesses become stronger, more professional and more transferable enterprises through leadership, organisation, commercial performance, operating systems, governance, technology and execution.

Organisation, management capability, executive development, culture, change, people and execution.
Strategy, enterprise value, commercial performance, marketing, e-commerce, logistics, operational excellence, automation and AI-enabled operations.
THE LEADER + THE ENGINE
Stronger leadership. Stronger business. Higher transferable value.
Two complementary perspectives. One shared commitment to building a stronger enterprise.

Co-Founder & Partner
Peter Sebestyen is an international business executive and strategic adviser with more than three decades of senior leadership experience across Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS, working with multinational corporations, privately owned businesses and entrepreneurial ventures.
Strategy · Enterprise Value · Marketing & Commercial Excellence · E-Commerce · Logistics & Supply Chain · Automation & AI-Enabled Operations

Co-Founder & Partner
Attila Török is an executive adviser, organisational development expert and executive coach with more than three decades of leadership and consulting experience across multinational companies and the SME sector.
Organisational Transformation · Executive Leadership · Operational Excellence · Executive Coaching
Stronger leaders. Stronger systems. Higher enterprise value.
Founder strength should become enterprise strength.
The leader and the engine must evolve together.
Advice has value only when it changes performance.
Technology must serve the operating model, not distract from it.
A stronger business today and a more transferable enterprise tomorrow.
LEGAVANCE is built around senior practitioners: Founders & Partners, Practice Leaders, Senior Advisors and a project-specific Expert Network.
We do not build large consulting teams. We build the right senior team.
Clients engage LEGAVANCE. We assemble the senior team around the business challenge — not the other way around.
Start a ConversationPerspectives on founder independence, enterprise strength and lasting value.
Confidential senior-level discussion. No obligation.
A Stronger Tomorrow.