The “Scale Beyond the Founder” Summit
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The “Scale Beyond the Founder” Summit
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Host: Jessper Manquindang
The “Scale Beyond the Founder” Summit
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Registration ends: Thu, Apr 16, 2026 3:00 PM (1 month 2 days from now)

Open: Accepting Speaker Applications Until Sunday, 12 April, 2:00 PM
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Request for Speakers - The “Scale Beyond the Founder” Summit

Build a High-Performance Business That Grows Beyond the Founder

The "Scale Beyond the Founder" Summit brings together successful but overwhelmed business owners who are ready to break through the growth ceiling and build businesses that thrive without their constant involvement. Our audience consists of driven 5- to 6-figure entrepreneurs who excel at their craft but find themselves stuck in the day-to-day, stretched thin, and wondering how to scale without burning out.

We're seeking dynamic experts who help business owners scale with clarity, confidence, and sustainable momentum.

Do you...

  • Help business owners build systems, automation, or operational frameworks that free them from daily execution?
  • Guide entrepreneurs through the leadership and mindset shifts required to grow beyond founder dependency?
  • Support founders in developing branding, visibility, or authority positioning that drives scalable growth?
  • Teach strategies for leveraging AI, technology, or smart tools to increase efficiency and stay competitive?
  • Advise on financial clarity, profit strategy, or building a business that supports long-term wealth and freedom?
  • Work with entrepreneurs to build team culture, delegation skills, and accountability structures that allow the business to run without them?
  • Regularly encounter capable founders who've hit a growth ceiling and need a clear path forward?

If you align with any of these areas, we invite you to apply as a speaker for The "Scale Beyond the Founder" Summit.

About the Event

The "Scale Beyond the Founder" Summit is a public virtual event that's free to attend. As we're not charging for tickets, we have a limited marketing budget and are seeking partners willing to share their expertise and promote the event to their audiences.

Date: March 3rd to 5th, 2026

Format: Virtual on Zoom, LIVE presentations focused on practical implementation strategies

Session Length: 25 minutes including Q&A, sharing gifts, etc.

Audience: 5- to 6-figure+ business owners and entrepreneurs transitioning from operator to visionary leader

This summit provides an excellent opportunity to connect with business owners actively seeking guidance on scaling their operations, strengthening their leadership, and building businesses designed to grow beyond them.

Partner guidelines

  • In total we have 30+ LIVE speaking opportunities available.
  • Relevance: Ensure your presentation aligns with the theme of the event and is directly relevant to solopreneurs.
  • Content: Focus on delivering valuable content with minimal self-promotion. Introduce yourself briefly and then dive into teaching key concepts, strategies, or tactics.
  • Promotion: Promote the event to your email and social media followers. We will provide you with promotional graphics, copy, and a personalized link. Ideal promotional times are:
    • 1-2 weeks before the event
    • 1-2 days before the event
    • The day before your talk
  • Restrictions: No promotion of paid offers or affiliate links during your presentation. Any links provided to the audience must be pre-approved. You may offer a free gift to the audience to grow your list. You cannot provide a calendar appointment/meeting as your gift or VIP gift, unless you are offering it as a paid engagement on your website. Your VIP gift cannot be a free trial with a paid upgrade, nor can it ask for credit card details. It must be provided free of charge without any conditions.
    Click here to read more about Gifts and VIP Gifts.
  • Participation Requirements: It is free to speak if you follow the speaker rules and secure at least 30 registrants for the summit using your promoter link. Click here to find out more about why we have the Participation Requirements rule.
  • Our Promotion Efforts: We actively promote to our community and typically add hundreds of registrants from our own efforts.
Speakers
Gray Is the Color of Success: What If "Either/Or" Is the Most Expensive Phrase in Your Vocabulary?
Amy Cornforth-Long, Esq. Law Firm Leadership Consultant

Be clear. Delegate more. Prioritize. You've heard this advice a hundred times. But what if the way you're applying it is actually creating the problems you're trying to solve? Most leaders treat these as all-or-nothing — you're either clear or you're not, you're either delegating or doing it yourself, something is either important or it isn't. That binary thinking feels decisive. It's also quietly expensive. In her session, Amy will break down three of the most common leadership defaults and show what's actually available between the two doors most leaders think are their only options.

Business Law / Legal
Delegation Strategic Thinking +1
The Invisible Burn
Bethany Stone Mindset and Life Skills Coach

The Invisible Burn exposes the hidden cost of high achievement. Many leaders are not crashing, they are coping. They are producing, delivering, and holding it all together while their nervous system quietly absorbs chronic stress.

In this session, Bethany Stone reveals how burnout develops beneath the surface and how to reverse it before it turns into emotional exhaustion, health issues, or disengagement. Participants will walk away with practical tools to regulate stress, rebuild resilience, and sustain long term energy without sacrificing performance.

Networking Strategies & Systems For Success
Brandon Drake CRM Consultant

Unlock the secrets to building meaningful connections and scaling your business with ease. In this workshop, Networking Strategies and Systems for Success, you’ll discover actionable techniques to forge authentic relationships while mastering simple systems to stay organized and focused. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by tech or unsure how to make your networking efforts truly impactful, this session provides the clarity you need to thrive. Packed with innovative strategies and practical tools, this workshop is designed to empower you to streamline your processes, deepen client connections, and position yourself as a leader in your field. Don’t miss the chance to elevate your approach. 

Technology
Relationship Marketing
From Scattered to Strategic: 3 Steps to Your Dream Back Office
Coleen Stubbs Founder Simplified CEO Systems

If your back office looks polished on the outside but like a dumpster fire behind the scenes, this training is for you.

From Scattered to Strategic is a straight forward, no-fluff session for midlife entrepreneurs who are done juggling DMs, sticky notes, spreadsheets, and “I’ll remember later.” You’re not lazy. You’re overloaded. And Success Without Peace Isn’t Success — It’s Burnout.

In 30 minutes, Coleen (founder of Simplified CEO Systems) will walk you through her simple, sanity-saving framework: Simplify, Automate, Delegate. You’ll learn how to stop losing leads in the cracks, create one clear follow-up flow, and set up automations that feel personal (not robotic) so your business runs even when life happens.

No tech overwhelm. No gatekeeping. Just real talk and practical steps you can use immediately to go from scattered to strategic—so your backend supports your growth instead of stealing your time.

 

From Founder to Authority: How the Stage Builds a Business Beyond You
Daniel Erbe Executive Voice & Performance Coach

Many founders try to scale their business through systems and hiring, yet remain the bottleneck because their authority, communication, and leadership presence haven’t scaled with the company.

In this session, Daniel shows how the “stage” — whether live, virtual, or in everyday leadership moments — becomes the fastest way to multiply trust, visibility, and influence. Attendees will learn practical shifts in presence, voice, and delivery that help their leadership carry through to others, so their business can grow with clarity and momentum.

PR & Communications
Public Speaking Alignment +1
A CreativePreneur Mindset & Toolbox – for Launching & Scaling
Diane Strand Executive Producer

Join award-winning media executive Diane Strand as she shares her roadmap for turning creative passion into a scalable business. This session blends mindset strategies with practical tools in branding, marketing, and monetization—equipping creatives to grow with purpose, visibility, and profit.

Materials needed: monitor that takes HDMI and a HDI cable

Speaking experience: TEDx / Speaking 3 times in front of 600 -900 people at Chamber events/ School Speaking events, Stage in NY in front of 100 people / Speaking at my own events

Business Design +8
Social Media Marketing Content Marketing +5
Out of The Weeds: How to Reclaim Your Time and Step Into Your CEO Role
Donna Dube Fractional Director of Operations

Scaling beyond the founder requires more than hiring. It requires a shift in how the founder leads.

Many successful entrepreneurs are stuck in the weeds of their own business. They are still the default decision maker, the problem solver, and the safety net for the team. As long as that remains true, sustainable scale remains out of reach.

In this session, operations strategist Donna Dube shares a five step CEO shift designed for founders ready to build true leadership capacity. You will learn how to separate operator work from CEO work, install practical execution boundaries, and create systems that empower your team to perform without constant oversight.

If you are ready to stop being the bottleneck and start leading a business that grows beyond you, this session will show you how.

Chaos to Clarity: 5 Tech Tools to Support Your Kingdom Assignment, Go From Dream to Impact
Earlene Coats Purpose-Driven Business Strategist

 Simplifying technology to amplify business impact, Overcoming fear and mental roadblocks to fulfill purpose, Creating legacy-aligned businesses for Christian women, Faith-based personal and business transformation

Stronger Teams, Stronger Business: Strategies to Boost Collaboration, Engagement, and Performance
Jessper Maquindang Leadership & HR Consultant

Freedom in business doesn’t come from working harder—it comes from building a high-performing team and an innovative culture that grows without draining you. Most business leaders are trapped because they’ve scaled revenue but not their people. The result? Burnout, bottlenecks, and a business that can’t run without them.

In this session, Jessper Maquindang reveals how to unlock the potential within people and systems that free business leaders from the grind. You’ll learn how to design a culture where your team takes ownership, innovation thrives, and growth happens without you getting trapped in every detail.

How to Use Publicity to Boost Leads, Visibility and Profits
Jill Lublin Media Magnet, International Speaker

If you want to be the #1 influencer in your industry, you’ve got to get bigger media visibility. Based on her international bestseller, Guerrilla Publicity, Jill shares simple strategies to help you go from unknown to newsworthy. Sharing her proven secrets to understanding what the media wants, Jill provides you with short-term, doable tactics that boost visibility for you and your brand.

  • Proven secrets to understand what the media outlets want
  • Get instant, actionable techniques that will boost your visibility.
  • Learn how to drive prospects to your door and profits to your pockets!

Now more than ever it’s important to stretch your message so that your visibility factor stays constant. Join publicity expert Jill Lublin as she shares new powerful tips and strategies to shine your light and your message now and no matter what!

Business Marketing +1
PR (public Relations) Public Relations +2
Brand Like A Boss(Using On-Camera Authority to Build trust, retention, and engagement
Lion Fludd Chief Fun Officer

“Brand Like A Boss: Using On-Camera Authority to Build Trust, Retention, and Engagement” is a practical, implementation-focused talk that shows founders how to use their presence on video to strengthen their people and culture—not just their marketing.

In this session, you’ll walk through:

  • The Brand-Trust Flywheel
    A simple framework for using video—meetings, updates, loom-style walkthroughs, town halls—to reinforce values, expectations, and standards so your team knows exactly how to represent the brand without you in the room.

  • Engagement that Outlives the Meeting
    Techniques for using live and asynchronous video to create two-way engagement, not one-way announcements—so your people feel seen, heard, and bought in, increasing retention and ownership.

  • Camera-Ready Leadership Systems
    How to turn recurring leadership tasks (onboarding, cultural resets, vision-casting, SOP training) into a library of short, evergreen videos that scale your voice, reduce repeat explanations, and create consistency across the team.

Attendees will leave with a clear mini-action plan: which 5–7 videos to record first, how to deliver them, and how to bake them into their leadership and people systems so they can scale trust, retention, and engagement—without being pulled into every single conversation.

The Cost of Being Unclear
Maritza Davila Business Growth Strategist

Are you tired of setting ambitious goals, only to find your team drifting off course quarter after quarter? In today's results driven world, clarity isn't just helpful...it's the difference between mediocrity and momentum. For business owners and growth driven leaders, the ability to lead with clarity is the ultimate competitive advantage. This keynote is about creating a culture of clarity, accountability, and unstoppable progress. Attendees will leave with a proven framework for eliminating confusion, and building a team that achieves its goals-quarter after quarter, year after year. 

The Financial Freedom Formula
Michael Whitehouse The Guy Who Knows a Guy

“The Financial Freedom Formula”

In this training, you’ll discover exactly what it’ll take for you personally to become financially free so that you don’t have to depend on your business, a job, the government, a partner, or anyone else for money.

We learn a lot about how to make money, but there is less education on what do with it once we have it. This is why people can make millions and still end up broke tomorrow. In this talk, you'll learn what to do with the income to turn it into freedom.

 

You’ll also learn:

*  The Two Types of Passive Income (and How to Get More of Each)

*  Why It’s Important to Create a Clear Financial Freedom Vision

*  The Common Misunderstanding About Passive Income that Leaves Even Savvy Investors with HUGE Money Leaks in Their Portfolios

*  3 Keys to Accelerating Your Journey to Financial Freedom

*  Simple Steps You Can Take Right Now That Your Future Self Will Thank You For (She’ll Have an Abundance of Money and Choice In Her Life!)

 

Why Delegation and Culture Aren’t Enough: Designing the Architecture Behind Founder Freedom
Natalie Runoff Strategy–Execution Interface Architect

If your business can’t run without you, it isn’t scalable—it's dependent.

Most founders believe the solution is better delegation, a stronger culture, or tighter control. But if decisions, ownership, and problem-solving still funnel back to you, you’re not leading a scalable company; you're functioning as its central processing unit.

And no amount of delegation or even a robust culture fixes structural dependency.

In this session, we’ll uncover the invisible architecture that keeps capable founders trapped in daily execution and why growth stalls the moment you step away.

You’ll learn how to identify where your business still collapses into you and how to design decision flow, ownership, and visibility so your company can operate without constant founder intervention.

Scale Beyond the Founder, build business that no longer depends on you.

Business Leadership
Business Design Business Optimization +1
A-Team Energy: Raise Your Lid. Amplify Your Influence. Lead on Repeat.
Nicole Borghi Event-to-Scale with Visibility Leader

A-Team Energy: Raise Your Lid. Amplify Your Influence. Lead on Repeat.

 How to build the A-Team Visibility isn’t optional. It’s the standard.

Virtual workshops are your authority stage and your influence engine, the place where your leadership gets seen, felt, and respected. When you own the room consistently, your culture sharpens, your team rises, and your momentum compounds.

In this dynamic session, Event-to-Scale Visibility Leader Nicole Borghi delivers 3 bold takeaways:

1️⃣ Raise Your Lid – Elevate your leadership ceiling so your team can expand with you.
2️⃣ Amplify Your Influence – Use structured virtual workshops to strengthen authority and reinforce your mission.
3️⃣ Lead on Repeat – Build a visibility rhythm that turns presence into power and consistency into scale.

A-Teams aren’t hired into existence. They’re built by leaders who train, reinforce, and elevate 

 

Monetizing Your Message through Public Speaking
Orly Amor Business Coach for Public Speakers

Many entrepreneurs don’t know how to leverage their skills and experience to maximize their earning potential. In this talk Orly Amor shares the many opportunities available to business owners to grow their brand and position themselves as Subject Matter Experts as a public speaker.

 

Orly has worked with hundreds of coaches and entrepreneurs and helped them triple and quadruple their sales from the stage.

 

In her talk, Orly shares the secrets of the speaking business as only a 24-year veteran can and in this talk she brings her top tools, techniques, and strategies for setting yourself up for success.

 

Your attendees will learn how to:

  • Get booked to speak in 30 days or less.
  • Set your speaking fees.
  • Build a multi-dimensional business model.

 

Becoming a public speaker opens many avenues to grow your attendees’ businesses and provides them with opportunities for additional revenue. Orly shows them how.

AI For SMB's - What Does The Future Look Like?
Phil Wofford Fractional COO/CFO & AI Coach

Nearly 2 out of 3 business owners say AI will be critical to staying competitive in the next few years (National Business Capital).

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

Most companies are stuck in “AI research mode.”


Not because they don’t see the value—because they can’t fund the leap.

 

What owners want from AI:

  • Faster, leaner operations

  • Better customer service

  • Smarter decisions

What’s stopping them:

  • Cash flow constraints

  • “Too expensive to start” perception

  • Risky, unclear ROI

That’s why the biggest AI unlock for SMBs isn’t another tool… it’s flexible capital to move from pilots to real implementation.

Manufacturing + healthcare are already testing real use cases—but most industries are still making small bets and playing it safe.

If you’re a small/mid-sized business: AI won’t become a growth driver until you treat it like an investment with a plan—and fund it accordingly.

Business
AI
Letting Go to Grow
Preethi Balasubramanian Your Calm-Through-Chaos Partner

Letting Go to Grow: Why Doing Less Is the Smartest Way to Scale 

Growth is often sold as doing more—more hours, more effort, more you in every part of the business. But what if the very thing holding your business back is how tightly you’re holding it together?

 

In this talk, we explore a different model of growth: sustainable, resilient, and intentionally designed. This session is for founders who are capable, committed, and deeply involved—but who sense that their time has become the ceiling on revenue, clarity, and impact.

 

Through practical reflection, real-world examples, and a powerful mindset shift from founder mode to CEO mode, you’ll uncover the hidden costs of doing it all, why delegation isn’t a “later” milestone but a growth requirement, and how clarity—not hustle—is the true leverage point.

 

You’ll leave with a new way to evaluate your business, identify where you’re the bottleneck, and understand what to let go of—without losing control, quality, or vision.

 

This isn’t about stepping back from your business. It’s about stepping up into leadership—so growth feels lighter, not heavier.

Your Wiring Is the Bottleneck
Raquel Soto Your Wiring Is the Bottleneck

As businesses grow, founders often hit a hidden ceiling — not in strategy, but in leadership capacity.

The habits, emotional responses, and control patterns that built early success can quietly stall scalability and reinforce founder-dependency.

In this session, Raquel Soto introduces a practical leadership recalibration framework designed to help entrepreneurs transition from operator to architect. You’ll learn how internal wiring impacts delegation, accountability, and team performance — and how to make immediate adjustments that increase autonomy and execution without adding more pressure.

If you’re ready to scale beyond yourself, it starts with upgrading the infrastructure no one else can see.

Stop Drifting: How to Get Off Autopilot and Scale Beyond Yourself
Reden Dionisio Reden Dionisio

Many founders believe they’ve hit a growth ceiling because they need better systems, more automation, or stronger delegation.

In reality, they’re drifting.

Drift happens when what you say you are as a leader no longer matches how you spend your time. Your calendar contradicts your vision. Your team waits for decisions they should own. You’re operating on autopilot while calling it growth.

In this session, you’ll diagnose the 5 Dimensions of Founder Drift and learn how to realign your vision, authority, and identity so your business can grow beyond your daily involvement.

You’ll walk away with a practical 30-day Alignment Reset framework to move from overwhelm to intentional scale.

Business Leadership
Leadership, Mental Performance Leadership and Influence +1
Why Money's Tight
Sara Bryson Why Money's Tight

Cash stress is rarely about effort, and the usual "solutions" often make the problem worse.  This presentation helps you identify what's actuallydriving the pressure in your business, so you stop applying bandaids and start addressing the real cause.

The Three Absolutes in any Presentation
Scott Schilling International Trainer & Speaker

What are looking for in life? Do you have a personal goal you want to achieve? Are you wanting to become a raving success in your professional pursuits? Is becoming the best parent you can possibly be important to you? No matter what your desire, this presentation can help get you there.

In this session, you’ll explore the possibilities that exist for you to learn what you need to know, grow the skill sets you need to develop, make the money you want to make, all through the principles presented.

It’s been proven repeatedly that when you surround yourself with greatest, that greatness rubs off and you absorb exactly what you need to absorb to fulfill your greatest desires. Learn the skills of powerful presentation, and live the life of your dreams by connecting with and engaging fully with expertise available to you through this presentation!

Profit Starts Here: The Overlooked Essentials That Make or Break a Business
Sharon Galluzzo

3 foundational areas that need your attention (and quick wins to strengthen them)  A better understanding of how money, marketing, and delivery quietly shape your profit A clear next step to build a business that’s strong, simple, and built to last.

Harnessing Authenticity into Scale
Tracy Borreson Authentic Marketing Advisor

We've all been convinced that, for success, we need to "scale". But WHAT do we need to scale.

There are infinite things we CAN do in business, in all departments. But it doesn't take all of those things for YOU to scale.

It takes YOUR things. And the key to that is in defining what things are yours, and what things are NOT. 

In this presentation, we'll explore how to tap into your personal authenticity in order to identify the things that are yours.  And look at different ways you can then harness that information into marketing, sales, and business decisions that actually scale YOUR business.

After all, no two trillion-dollars businesses were built the same way. So let's start by getting your foundations right.

Business Leadership +2
Business Marketing Strategy +5
The Magic of Top Performance
Tyler Jensen Founder

Tyler delivers an engaging and insightful presentation through magic, artwork, and storytelling on
achieving top performance by overcoming the three complacency models. Drawing from personal
stories, real-life examples and of course magic, Tyler emphasizes the importance of audience
engagement, overcoming adversity, and maintaining a positive mindset. By recounting his inspiring
journey early in his career and sharing his engaging story of scaling personal mountains. Tyler
illustrates how optimism can transform even the most challenging situations into opportunities for
growth. The speech includes interactive activities, artwork, magic, and practical strategies, that help
individuals realize their own complacency model and how to overcome it. These strategies will help
participants cultivate a positive outlook, enhance their decision-making, improve systems and
productivity in the workplace, and foster top performing cultures.

Why YouTube Turns Your Podcast Into a 24/7 Marketing Machine
Zynul Khan Dr. Zee

Stop podcasting into the void. Most podcasters upload to Spotify and Apple and wait. But those are hosting platforms, not discovery platforms. YouTube is different. As the world's second-largest search engine, it actively surfaces your content to people already searching for what you teach.

In this training, Dr. Zynul Khan reveals a 7-step conversion framework that turns your podcast into a client-attracting machine on YouTube so your content works for you around the clock, even if you're not tech-savvy.

Perfect for coaches, speakers, authors, and experts over 50 who are ready to stop being invisible and start turning their wisdom into consistent leads, clients, and impact.