Leaving corporate life to build a business can create a new kind of overwhelm: suddenly, you’re responsible for everything. In this presentation, Tech Systems Strategist and Architect Brandi Cox helps entrepreneurs identify and offload the tasks keeping them stuck without sacrificing control or quality. Drawing from her expertise in automation, delegation, and implementation, Brandi shows how sustainable business systems can help founders reclaim their time and energy while creating the structure needed for growth. Attendees will gain practical insights for automating, delegating, and structuring their businesses without burnout or tech overwhelm—so they can stop surviving like technicians and start leading like CEOs.

In a world where trust is at an all time low and your image and voice can be copied, what have we got left?

Our humanity. Our real, unpredictable, messy, humanness. Connection.

Nothing is going to build trust with your audience better than being present and connected and honest with them. Not just on a supericial level, but with your whole body and soul, down to your bones.

Voice, speaking, and presence coach Danielle Benzon will walk you through how to show up on stage and on camera in a way that creates immediate know, like, and trust with your ideal audience. Create immediate differentiation from your competition and cut that "awareness to decision" time down by half to build real, long-lasting relationships with clients who know, like, and trust you.

To succeed as an independent consultant, you must become just as good at winning the work as you are at doing the work.

The biggest struggle for new consultants isn't a lack of expertise. It's building a predictable pipeline of work so they can actually enjoy the independence they've created...and still pay the mortgage.

Many consultants leave accomplished professional careers and suddenly feel invisible. The opportunities fizzle out. The referrals dry up. The phone stops ringing.

In this session, Dave Seaton introduces the Five Disciplines of Client Development: the framework that helps independent consultants create clarity, build credibility, make connections, navigate client conversations, and sustain momentum through times of feast and famine.

You'll leave with a practical scorecard that reveals the hidden constraints in your client development system so you can position yourself as the obvious, low-risk choice and guide potential clients from first contact to signed contract.

Most people waiting to leave corporate are waiting for a feeling of readiness that never actually arrives — and the ones who’ve already leapt often find the same waiting shows up again, this time around whether the business is real. Elise Renzetti has learned the shift was never about arriving. It’s about staying present to the decision while you’re still inside it, unfinished.

Drawing from a personal break — a pattern that started long before her career and cost her the trust she’d spent a lifetime performing around — Elise shares what it took to rebuild that trust in mind and body, not just belief. She’s living a version of that work now: still leveraging corporate while building her coaching practice toward full-time. She isn’t speaking from the other side of anything. She’s speaking from inside it.

Attendees leave with a clearer read on their own performative-readiness trap.

Erica Wood didn't plan to become a founder. After nearly 20 years in corporate, she was let go twice and lost her husband to cancer. What came next wasn't just a pivot. It was a purpose.

In this session, Erica shares the real story behind founding Client Journey Advisors and how those hard seasons became the foundation for her Compass Clarity Method. Because the same principle that helps founders retain clients and build sustainable businesses is the one that helped her rebuild her life. When everything feels reactive and foggy, what you need most is direction.

Attendees will leave with a clearer sense of their unique value, what's been keeping them stuck, and how to start building something intentional from exactly where they are.

Leaving corporate, even close to retirement, doesn't always mean you're done earning. Sometimes you need a backstop, sometimes a bridge to what's next, sometimes a base to build on.

That income can take different forms: owning a business, digital marketing offers, consulting, or the one nobody talks about, online project-based freelancing.

When you're choosing your direction, one distinction makes things clearer: do you want to create demand, or meet demand?

In this session, you'll learn:

• What project-based freelancing is, and how it differs from the loud online income options
• How decades of experience become exactly what clients are already looking for and paying for
• How to decide whether this path fits where you want to go

You left corporate to build something of your own—but what happens when the business you created starts feeling just as heavy as the life you left behind?

Business coach and trainer Jen Seidelman challenges the belief that success requires constant pushing, hustle, or self-sacrifice. In this session, she’ll help entrepreneurs recognize when overwhelm and burnout are signals of misalignment rather than signs they need more discipline. Attendees will learn to look at their priorities, pace, offers, and boundaries through a new lens and see where their business may no longer fit their capacity, values, or season of life.

They’ll leave with greater clarity about what actually matters and a powerful reframe for building a more aligned, sustainable business—without sacrificing their peace, health, or life.

Most people think staying in corporate is the safe choice and leaving is the risky one. This talk flips that assumption. You'll learn to tell the difference between fear that's protecting you and fear that's just protecting the status quo, and how to use fear as a barometer instead of a stop sign. Lynda Sunshine will share the moment she stopped waiting to feel ready (after 36 yeras in the corporate world) and what it taught her about reading her own fear. You'll leave knowing how to trust that inner barometer and finally decide, on your own terms, whether it's time to stay or go.

Most first meetings fall apart before they begin. Not from a lack of knowledge, but from a missing mindset and no framework for reading the room.

In this session, you will learn the PIM, a structured qualification model that tells you in real time whether a real opportunity is sitting across the table. You will also explore HEC: Humility, Empathy, and Curiosity. These three qualities allow a seller to listen well, ask the right questions, and let the buyer tell you what matters most.

Research on buyer behavior points to a consistent pattern: most deals stall because sellers diagnose too late. PIM moves that diagnosis to the front of the conversation. HEC makes that possible.

AskAlex, a neuroscience-based sales thought partner, supports this kind of structured, buyer-first approach around the clock.

Walk in prepared. Walk out with clarity.

Most people leaving corporate spend months waiting to feel ready before they trust the decision. This talk reframes that waiting period entirely, showing why the discomfort of the crossing isn't a warning sign, it's evidence of growth. Attendees will learn how to recognize when they're standing at a real inflection point (not just a bad week), how to separate the noise of other people's timelines from their own readiness, and why everything they've already built — including the setbacks — is the actual asset they're bringing into what's next.

Starting a business after corporate is the easy part — sustaining it is where most new ventures quietly stall. Drawing from decades of building her own practice and advising entrepreneurs through the Bet On Yourself & Win™ Business Foundation Series, this talk gives attendees the practical foundation most new business owners skip: how to build systems before you need them, price for longevity instead of survival, and create client relationships that compound instead of resetting to zero every quarter.

What if the fastest path out of corporate isn't learning an entirely new skill—but recognizing the value of the skills you already have?

Priscilla Rivera left teaching in 2020 earning about $3,000 per month and built a six-figure freelance business using skills she had developed long before she ever called herself an entrepreneur.

In this presentation, she'll show attendees how to identify their most marketable skills, turn those skills into a clear service offer, find businesses already willing to pay for that support, and begin building recurring client income.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for moving from "What could I even do?" to a sellable offer they can confidently take into the market—without another degree, certification, or complete career reinvention.

Building a thriving business doesn’t always require more leads, more marketing, or more cold outreach. Sometimes the revenue opportunity is already sitting inside the relationships you’ve built.

In this practical, interactive presentation, Roxie Jorgenson helps entrepreneurs uncover the “Trust Tax”—the revenue lost when warm relationships, former clients, referral partners, and valuable contacts are left untouched. Attendees will learn how to identify where trust already exists in their network, recognize where relationships are going cold, and understand when a relationship is ready to move forward.

Participants leave with greater visibility into the relationships they already have and a specific next move they can make to begin turning trust into more consistent, predictable revenue.

Thinking about leaving a job to start a business can be exhilarating, but jumping without a realistic map is dangerous. In this session, former Career Coach turned Entrepreneur, Sheryl Scott delivers a reality check for anyone thinking of making that leap. Stripping away the generic "hustle" advice, Sheryl helps you objectively evaluate whether entrepreneurship is a good path for you, consider options that don’t require you to reinvent the wheel, and narrow your focus to win your first clients. You will learn why the secret to building a business that lasts and aligns with your goals is focusing on your strengths and allowing others to assist you. This session, and the entire event is all about trading overwhelm for a clear strategy, kickstarting the practical roadmap, and launching you confidently into the next phase of your journey.

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, 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.

We're kicking things off with an honest conversation, not a lecture. I'll ask how you're feeling right now — about leaving corporate, about already having left, about whatever crossroads brought you here — and what's surprised you most along the way. Then I'll walk through what's ahead over the next three days and the housekeeping you need (VIP gifts, replay access, how to get the most out of each day). You're here because you already know something needs to change — this is where we start working on it together.