Aaron Young

Aaron Young is the Chairman and CEO of Laughlin Associates, a company that has spent more than four decades helping business owners with corporate structure, compliance and governance — the unglamorous foundations that determine whether a business protects its owner or exposes them.

He is the creator of The Unshackled Owner, a program built for entrepreneurs who want to build a business that serves their life rather than consumes it. The distinction he draws — between owning a business and owning a job — sits at the centre of his work.

Aaron is co-author of Unshackled: The 7 Levels of Business Excellence and speaks internationally on business freedom, corporate governance and the systems that let founders step back without the whole thing falling over.

His perspective is that of an operator rather than a theorist: he has run companies, made the mistakes, and built the structures that stop those mistakes repeating.