A multi-advisor conversation on assessing business reality, architecting two-year increments toward long-term vision, and prioritizing execution to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Red Direction
Guiding Growth: How to Keep Your Team, Tech, and Strategy Relevant
A guide to recognizing and breaking through strategic growth ceilings by cultivating accountability habits, reducing distraction debt, and using intentional leadership practices to keep teams, technology, and strategy aligned and relevant.
Scale and Pivot: How Hard Decisions Shape Business Evolution
A conversation with an entrepreneur and EOS implementer on scaling from $10M to $100M, the bold pivots required to evolve business models, and why the decisions you avoid asking are often holding you back.
Why Guilt and Shame Affect Your Business Strategy
A candid conversation on how guilt and shame hide behind metrics and distort decision-making under pressure. Learn the framework to resolve these emotions, make intentional new choices, and ensure your past successes don’t blind you to what’s needed next.
Stop Future-Proofing: The Mid-Market Guide to Future-Making
Starting the conversation: Most mid-market companies hit a wall around year eight. The processes that got you here are exactly what’s stopping you from going there. This panel discussion is breaking the ‘future-proof’ habit and starting to execute for relevance. Your Future-Maker panel is: Listen to hear the difference between playing defense and offense, the […]
From Vision to Execution: Why CEOs Must Rethink Success in the Age of AI
Starting the conversation: The era of having all the answers is over. Find out why humility, experimentation, and vision are now the true superpowers for modern executives. Steve Brown, AI Futurist, shares about how small and mid-sized companies can lead rather than just keep up in an AI-first economy. Being able to lead and not […]
From Friction to Growth: How Self-Reflection Drives Success
Starting the conversation: Your character skills outlast and out-value your credentials in a rapidly changing world. Co-Founders and Co-Authors of “The Business of You,” Marnie Stockman and Nick Coniglio, share how to take more ownership during times of friction and lead yourself. Growth comes from the friction of hard conversations, and you can leverage this […]
Empower Teams and Lead Innovation in the Age of Automation
Starting the conversation: Make customers cheer and fix friction fast by empowering your team to turn complaints into million-dollar opportunities. Solomon Thimothy, Co-founder and CEO of oneIMS, shares his experiences about finding BOLD growth opportunities within his company. It’s ok to reverse your previous decisions. Change and flexibility are required to navigate growth today. Choose […]
UNCHARTED: The Real Power of Knowing What You Can Control and Influence
Starting the conversation: Are you underestimating what you actually control? Discover why shifting focus from uncontrollable obstacles to what you can influence changes everything for business growth. Apollo Emeka, Apollo Strategy Group, shares that it is BOLD to become the best at the basics to feel fulfilled as you take action on your big decisions. […]
Cut Through the Noise and Build Resilience as an Entrepreneur
Starting the conversation: True sacrifice is letting go of the noise and negative influences, not the things or people you love. Our personal narratives (those we share and those we keep private) shape our leadership. Benny Mobley, Legacy Coach, shares his experiences overcoming limiting beliefs and embracing authenticity to build the resilience you need as […]
The CEO Evolution: Re-Engineering Your Role to Unlock 10x Value
Starting the conversation: TheIf your job as CEO hasn’t changed in three years, your company might be outgrowing you. Jess Dewell, Red Direction, Christy Maxfield, Purpose First Advisors, and Dean Barta, Barta Business Group, talk candidly about you being the bottleneck holding your business growth back. To 10x your business, reassess your role as CEO, […]
Investor Insights: Business Scaling, Conflict, and Operational Excellence
Starting the conversation: There is a real cost of fuzzy strategy and that lack of clarity erodes real value.Think you’re scaling just fine? Think again. Melanie Nabar, Vice President at Volition Capital, unpacks how unclear objectives and scattershot initiatives can burn cash and destroy opportunity — and offers actionable steps to keep up your momentum. […]
UNCHARTED: Energize Your Team: The Power of Curiosity and Brave Belonging
Starting the conversation: You can have “space” in your meetings, conversations, or company culture to unlock your team’s best ideas. It is the intangible connections that transform how your business scales, grows, and belongs — together. Heather Hester, Founder at More Human More Kind, shares how to be brave and honest about mistakes, as well […]
Leading Through Uncharted Territory: Lessons for CEOs in Fast-Changing Markets
Starting the conversation: Yesterday’s playbook is useless for tomorrow’s problems. Smart companies evolve their people, keep clarity around priorities, and navigate uncertainty and grow. PeopleCap Advisors Co-Founders Meg Crosby, Principal, and Howard Cleveland, Leadership Coach and Confidante, share how to lead through uncharted territory in quickly changing markets. The Gauntlet of Growth for sustainable growth […]
UNCHARTED: The Role of Gut Feelings: Transforming Shame into Strength and Assertive Action
Starting the conversation: Are you responsible FOR your team or TO them? Courage is required to face and transform the internalized shame and disgust that influences our ability to use anger as fuel for the greatest good. Bronwyn Schweigerdt, psychotherapist and Angry at the Right Things podcaster, shares the role of emotion and how to […]
Become a Conscious Creator: Elevate Your Life and Business With Positive Belief
Starting the conversation: Business teams live and die by the attitude at the top. You influence and uplift the environment, making an impact through internal clarity and external presence. Coach Cudjo, President at Human Optimization 3.0, shares that you are creating all the time, and it is BOLD to steer your company’s outcomes by conscious […]















