Speaking · Signature talk 09

The Growth Operator

Sales, marketing, service, people, technology, operations.

The full stack of how growth actually happens.. learned by running it, not by writing about it. The companies I have helped have generated more than $100M in revenue across software, fintech, non-profits, and home services. The talk for rooms that want to skip the theory and watch the playbook.

Best fit for

Founder summits · Growth teams · B2B SaaS · Service-business operators · Non-profit leadership

Available as

Keynote (45m) · Half-day workshop · Two-day operator intensive

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Most growth talks are written by people who have never run a P&L. This one is not.

From The Growth Operator

The talk

Most growth talks are written by people who have never run a P&L. This one is not.

I have spent a career on the inside of growth across categories most consultants never touch in the same room. Software. Fintech. Non-profit. Home services. The companies I have worked with have collectively generated more than $100M in revenue. The playbook compounds because the principles do not change.. only the surface area does.

This is the operator's stack, all six layers, from someone who runs all six. Sales: the conversation that gets to yes, and how to design a pipeline that does not depend on heroics. Marketing: distribution that compounds, not campaigns that spike. Service: the loyalty math nobody runs. People: what scales after the first ten hires and what does not. Technology: where AI agents finally pay back, where they do not, and which seats they sit in first. Operations: the boring engine room where most companies leak the most.

The deeper version of this talk is built around the gardenpatch playbooks.. a hands-on session that uses the agent-native software suite as the working example. The full-day operator workshop is available for leadership teams that want to walk out with the diagnostic, the gaps, and the next three moves.

What your audience leaves with

What every room takes home.

  1. Takeaway 01

    The six-layer operator stack and the diagnostic that finds the weakest layer in any company

  2. Takeaway 02

    The three growth mistakes that compound silently across categories

  3. Takeaway 03

    Where AI agents earn their seat at the table.. and the seats they should not have yet

  4. Takeaway 04

    The single ratio that tells you whether a growth engine is healthy or borrowing from the future

Is this the right talk for your room?

Strong fit for audiences past the "what is a CRM" stage who want the unsparing version of how growth actually happens. Especially strong for companies thinking about AI-native operations, and operators tired of consultant theater.

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