Skylar Dean is the founder of SkillStacked Strategies, a data-driven exit planning consultancy that helps small business owners simplify complexity and design transitions that protect the legacy they’ve worked a lifetime to build. After 15 years at Edward Jones leading firm-wide initiatives in succession planning, digital transformation, and leadership development, he founded SkillStacked to blend financial modeling, strategic planning, and human-centered design — backed by SkillStacked’s proprietary research.