Growth strategy
Clarify priorities, sharpen the business model and pricing, and build the operating plan that lets a company scale without breaking its owner.
Entrepreneurial Consulting · Tampa, Florida
Strategy from someone who has built, run and sold.
The Klingman Group helps founders, owners and mission-driven organizations start, grow, buy and exit businesses with clarity. Led by Dr. Jamie Klingman, DBA, a serial entrepreneur, licensed broker and business strategist.
20years as a serial entrepreneur
10companies in the portfolio
2016licensed real estate broker since
DBAin Social Enterprise
What we do
Practical strategy for every stage of ownership
Advice grounded in operating experience, not theory. Every engagement starts with a candid conversation about where you are and where you want to go.
Buying and selling businesses
Exit readiness, deal structure and transaction guidance for sellers and buyers, with full brokerage and M&A support through our affiliated practices.
Venture launch
Take a concept to an operating company: offer, brand, business model, systems and go-to-market, built by someone who has launched many.
Social enterprise and nonprofit strategy
Earned revenue, governance, mergers and acquisitions for mission-driven organizations that want more dollars available for the work that matters.
About
Dr. Jamie Klingman, DBA
Founder, The Klingman Group
Dr. Jamie Klingman is a creative strategist, serial entrepreneur and business broker based in Tampa, Florida. Over twenty years she has started, grown and sold her own ventures, including a home health care company she built and exited, so she has sat in the seller's chair herself.
Today she leads The Klingman Group and a portfolio of companies spanning business brokerage and M&A advisory, residential and commercial real estate, education and nonprofit revenue strategy. She has been a licensed real estate broker since 2016 and has served as broker of record for firms across the country.
As a practitioner-scholar, Jamie brings her doctoral research in social enterprise into her consulting, speaking and teaching. She speaks with the IBBA and the Jim Moran Institute, has taught for the Jim Moran Institute at Florida State University and has guest lectured at the USF Muma College of Business. In 2026 she joined Brentwood University as Adjunct Professor of International Entrepreneurship.
Her board leadership includes the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, where she has served as Board Chair and Treasurer, and the Institute for Economic Evolution, where she serves as Board Chair. She lives in Tampa with her husband, three daughters, 160 pounds of standard poodle and a hairless cat.
The portfolio
Companies Jamie leads and supports
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M&A and business advisory
The Exit Strategy Co.
Business brokerage and M&A advisory for owners preparing to sell.
Owner and Broker of Record
The Exit Strategy Co. is Jamie's primary practice: a business brokerage and M&A advisory firm that helps owners sell the companies they have built. Sellers can choose to go to market now or enroll in the Exit Readiness Program, which pairs a readiness assessment with quarterly monitoring and vetting of unsolicited buyer approaches.
The firm is a licensed Florida real estate brokerage, with brokers licensed in several additional states.
The Deal Strategy Co.
Buy-side guidance to find and structure the right acquisition.
Sister practice to The Exit Strategy Co.
The Deal Strategy Co. helps buyers find businesses and creatively structure deals. Its signature offering is an independent, neutral examination of a target company: not a valuation and not a quality of earnings, but a holistic, human read on whether a deal is the right deal for that particular buyer.
The JAR Collective
Integrated growth strategy and operations support for founders.
Partner, Finance and Operations
The JAR Collective provides integrated growth strategy, operations, marketing and brand support for founders facing consequential business decisions. Through diagnostic assessments, strategic sprints, fractional leadership and advisory support, the team helps owners clarify priorities and reduce operational strain.
The Parachute Co.
A soft landing for owners of struggling businesses.
The Parachute Co. helps owners of struggling companies land safely. Every engagement starts with an assessment, followed by the right mix of practical AI that cuts hours, managed back-office services for a predictable monthly fee and, when it makes sense, an equity partnership that helps carry debt payments during a turnaround.
The Venture Bench
Fractional business teams for biotech founders.
The Venture Bench gives biotech founders a fractional business team to carry promising science from invention to market. Founders get the business support a new venture needs without building a full team on day one.
Real estate
Boutique Realty Florida
Full service real estate brokerage serving Tampa Bay.
Owner
Boutique Realty Florida is a full service real estate brokerage serving Tampa Bay since 2014. The firm delivers personalized real estate experiences for its clients and focuses on empowering its agents with the support they need to serve buyers and sellers well.
Halvoron Realty
People, property and community across Greater Tampa Bay.
Broker
Halvoron Realty is an intentionally small brokerage serving Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Polk counties. The team pairs personal service with property valuation expertise, helps military families relocating to MacDill Air Force Base, and commits a share of every commission to community organizations supporting housing stability.
The Intro Co
Referral income for licensed agents who know business owners.
Founder
The Intro Co trains licensed residential and commercial real estate agents to recognize business owners who are ready to sell and refer them to business brokers and M&A advisors for referral income. Agents can stay with their current firm or place an active Florida license with The Intro Co on a referral-only basis.
Education and social impact
Boon-dah Learning
Story-driven science curriculum for neurodiverse learners.
Chief Strategy Officer
Boon-dah Learning is a supplemental science curriculum designed for neurodiverse students in grades 3 through 5. It uses storytelling, drama-based pedagogy and evidence-based instructional strategies aligned to science standards to help students build content knowledge and strengthen literacy skills.
The Unrestricted
A nonprofit revenue strategy firm.
Founder
The Unrestricted helps nonprofit organizations increase the unrestricted dollars available for mission work. Organizations can commercialize assets they already run for social good, add adjacent service lines, or acquire an operating business for cash flow and convert it into a social enterprise.
The firm also guides nonprofit organizations through mergers and transitions that let two organizations share one set of overhead.
Philanthropy and community
Board service and giving back
Jamie has spent more than fifteen years in nonprofit leadership across Tampa Bay, from startup organizations to institutions with budgets above $30 million.
Current leadership
Since 2013
Crisis Center of Tampa Bay
Treasurer, Board of Directors
Treasurer, Board of Directors · Board Chair 2017 to 2018
The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay provides 24/7 support to everyone in the community, connecting people to hope, help and healing with care and without judgment.
Jamie has served on the board since 2013, including terms as Secretary, Chair-Elect, Development Chair, IT Committee Chair and Board Chair. She is a member of the Legacy Society and Sustainer Society.
Since 2025
The Small Magic Foundation
Chair, Board of Directors
Chair, Board of Directors
The Small Magic Foundation funds young people ages 13 to 19 through M.A.G.I.C. Grants. Students identify a community need, build a plan and partner with a local school, nonprofit organization, church or community group to lead a real project of their own.
Jamie leads the board through the foundation's formation and growth.
Since 2024
Madi's Movement and Fostering Hearts FL
Board Chair, Fostering Hearts FL
Board Chair, Fostering Hearts FL
Madi's Movement helps young adults aging out of foster care reach full independence. Through education, employment and empowerment, it provides mentorship, life skills training, career readiness and community connection.
As Board Chair of Fostering Hearts FL, Jamie is guiding its merger into Madi's Movement.
Since 2018
Institute for Economic Evolution
Board Chair
Board Chair
The Institute for Economic Evolution is a private nonprofit research institute. It finds, cultivates and shares data-driven, design-centered economic ideas that evaluate society holistically, including all stakeholders and all available data, to better address contemporary challenges.
Past service
- Athletes Who Care, Inc.Co-Founder and President, 2008 to 2024. Endurance events that let athletes raise funds for charities nationwide.
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyBoard of Trustees, Suncoast Chapter, 2014 to 2018
- American Cancer Society, Relay For Life Temple TerraceEvent Chair, 2011 and 2013
- Children's Athletic Network and Dance Opportunities (CAN DO)Board President, 2012 to 2016
- Arts Council of Hillsborough CountyCultural Assets Commission Member, 2019 to 2022
- Temple Terrace Chamber of CommerceBoard Chair, 2013 to 2014
- Leadership Tampa BayClass of 2011; Board Member and Member Experience Chair, 2011 to 2014
Contact
Let's talk about what's next.
Whether you are launching, growing, buying, selling or rethinking how your organization earns revenue, the first conversation is the place to start. Share a little about your situation and Jamie will follow up personally.
- Based in Tampa, Florida
- Working with clients nationwide
- Speaking and teaching inquiries welcome