SPRING 2023
Defining Moments
Kyle Griffith, CBI, CM&AP
Joining the IBBA in 2016 was a defining moment in my business brokerage career.
I wanted to broaden my knowledge of business sales, network and learn from
industry leaders. My participation in the IBBA has been invaluable, and I was
honored to be elected to the Board in 2019. With now over 13 years’ experience, I
credit my success to the IBBA and aspire to continue seeing this organization keep creating defining
moments in the lives of others.
I think, by definition, a defining moment o�en entails doing or achieving something that hasn’t
been done before. With over 2,800 members the IBBA is the largest and strongest we’ve ever been
and we’re a�racting a more diverse pool of people to our profession and organization; it’s a defining
moment. Passage of the Brokerage Simplification Act is a significant, defining moment for us all. If
we look back just a few short years at the progress of our education programs, awards, benefits and
Conferences, each has experienced a defining moment of new heights that has increased value for
membership. The question then is, where do we go from here?
Just as with our own professional development, the IBBA must strive to achieve new defining
moments. Here are a few on the radar that I’m most excited about…
DEFINING MOMENT: RAISING AWARENESS OF THE BUSINESS BROKERAGE PROFESSION.
As insights from our business owner research studies come in, we will be be�er equipped to play an
even stronger role in making sure business owners understand that working with a Business Broker
is essential. Increasing the knowledge and utilization of professional Business Brokers will be a
defining moment that is central to our primary purpose.