Built a business that pays you—but leaves you exhausted, stressed, and busier than ever?

Forget the hustle. The reason your business feels heavy isn't your work ethic—it's a hidden mismatch between how your business is built and how you naturally think, lead, and work.

I'm Michela Quilici—Business Growth Strategist, Forbes Coaches Council member, and 5x international bestselling author. For 25 years, I've helped founders and CEOs break through growth plateaus by building businesses aligned with who they are.

In this talk, you'll discover why borrowed strategies create burnout, bottlenecks, and stalled growth—and how to break through your current ceiling by making the right strategic, leadership, and identity shifts for your stage of business.

Whether you're approaching six figures, leading a growing team, or scaling beyond founder dependency, you'll leave with a clear roadmap to build a business that grows without costing you your freedom.

Nobody handed you a guide to the missing pieces when you started. So you figured it out as you went — and the gaps you didn't know existed quietly added up in time, money, and momentum.

Most solopreneurs don't stall because their idea is bad. They stall because they're piecing together foundational decisions alone, without anyone who's already walked that terrain to tell them what they're missing.

Vicki James, founder of Thrive Hive, shares real stories and hard-won lessons from watching solopreneurs get stuck in the same places — and get unstuck the moment they stopped building alone.

You'll leave knowing which pieces are missing from your business, what to put in place first, and what becomes possible once you have the right support at the right time.

Clarity and clients, sooner. That's what this session is about.

Join this talk and learn how to get laser focused on the activities that you need to focus on daily to see consistent client growth. These leadership building blocks are essential and help you get off the crazy train you are on right now that isn’t resulting in client growth.

Specifically:

• How client growth CAN be elegantly simple.
• The 2 activities that predict your revenue in the next 90 days.
• The 3 core problems to solve in order to win corporate clients predictably

Are you suffering from the "Superwoman" trap and why hard work isn't getting you where you want to be? This workshop will help you undestand your behaviours and motivators and streamline your business.

As businesses grow, founder dependency becomes one of the biggest barriers to scale. In this session, Brandi Cox shows business owners how to move critical work out of their own head and into repeatable systems and delegated support—without losing control, quality, or momentum.

Attendees will learn how to identify the tasks and decisions that keep them stuck in day-to-day operations, and how to offload them strategically so the business can run with greater consistency and accountability. This implementation-focused session helps founders reclaim time and energy while building the operational foundation required to lead, not just execute.

You've built a successful business. So why doesn't your bank account always reflect it?

In this engaging and thought-provoking keynote, CPA and wealth expert Christine Lang reveals why financial success isn't just about earning more. It's about understanding the hidden behaviors, beliefs, and habits that quietly shape every financial decision.

Blending behavioral economics, money psychology, and practical strategies, Christine shows audiences how to stop leaking wealth, make more intentional financial decisions, and become the CEO of their money, not just their business.

Participants will leave with a fresh perspective, practical tools they can use immediately, and a clear path toward building lasting wealth with confidence.

For the Panel on Marketing, Technology & Web Development - here are my "for the Facilitator" set of questions they can ask me (or the entire panel) to show-case my skills plus allows others to provide their experitise on as well....

1. "What's one thing that could be quietly costing a business clients right now, that they'd have absolutely no way of knowing about?"

2. "Everyone's adding AI to their business right now — what's the foundation that needs to be solid before AI actually helps instead of hurts?"

3. "What's a 5-minute thing a business owner could check themselves today that most people don't even know exists?"

You already have interest coming in — a form filled out at 11pm, a call missed mid-job, a lead that went cold in your CRM. I find where it's leaking and close the gap.

What is one of the biggest mistakes that soloprenuers make?

What do you think holds most entreprenuers back from making progress?

What habits support business success?

Ms. Petrovic will discuss best practices when negotiating Non-Dislosure Agreements and most important issues to consider.

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