Scaling the Stage at Entrepreneur Events

 

Keynote Speaker at Entrepreneur Events

Book any of my most popular keynotes.

Here’s the secret behind my magic:

  •  I promote the event and its theme before, during, and after the presentation.
  • My presentation is tailored to the particular needs of the event.
  • Your attendees are engaged, entertained, and educated with a blend of stories and research tempered with humor.

Select a speech from the list below. Each of these speeches can be presented as a keynote, breakout, ½ day or full-day workshop.

Train Your Unicorn: Gain and Sustain Competitive Advantage by Creating a Venture that Learns

Is your venture smart or stupid? Smart ventures gain and sustain competitive advantage … through the intelligence advantage!

Purpose:

This presentation reveals how to grow a venture with competitive advantage by implementing the attributes of a learning organization.

Summary:

  • All businesses are in a struggle for survival and adaptation.
  • Those businesses that learn more and faster than their competitors gain and sustain competitive advantage. That means they win!
  • But, the competitive landscape for start-up and scale-up ventures is particularly hazardous with notable failure rates due to their “liability of newness.” That means it’s tough for new ventures to win.
  • So, it’s imperative that new ventures devote attention to the development of their learning capacity. Survival is for the fittest!
  • Here’s how to create a venture that learns.

 

This program is perfect for:

  • Entrepreneurs with start-up or scale-up ventures seeking to gain and sustain competitive advantage.

The audience will leave with:

  • Discover how organizations learn and how to use this capability to formulate and execute adaptive strategies that gain and sustain competitive advantage.
  • Discern the components of a learning organization and how to implement those components in your own venture.
  • Become skillful at creating and leading a venture that learns.

Face Your Fear or Fail: Transform Yourself and Your Venture by Leveraging the First Principles of Change

Do You Have an Entrepreneurial Quest That’s Being Blocked by Fear? Then, Face Your Fear!

Purpose:

This presentation uncovers the 1st Principles of change—the foundational principles on which all change is predicated—and reveals the proven methods for effectively making application of those principles.

Summary:

  • At the tender age of 7, Stevie Maranville unexpectedly lost his eyesight. This loss surfaced a deeply-embedded and traumatic fear of change. Realizing even at this young age that change is the only true constant, he was compelled to face his fear of change.
  • Consequently, for the past 50+ years, the now Dr. Steven Maranville has studied and distilled the 1st principles of change.
  • Now, let’s apply the 1st Principles of change to your entrepreneurial quest.

 

This program is perfect for:

  • Anyone with an entrepreneurial quest who has ever felt the frightening emotion of fear.

The audience will leave with:

  • Uncover the 1 st Principles of Change essential to achieving your quest.
  • Master the mindset essential to facing the fears that are blocking your success.
  • Experience fulfillment by applying the 1st Principles of Change to your quest.

Launch You Incorporated: How to Succeed In Spite of Going to College

Are you ready to transform from a school-smart student into a street-wise entrepreneur?

Purpose:

This presentation reveals how to most profitably use your time in College to prepare “You Incorporated” for a successful launch.

Summary:

  • Whether a budding Entrepreneur or Intrapreneur, you are the Founder & CEO of a prelaunch startup venture—You Incorporated.
  • Like many startups, you have chosen to Launch You Incorporated from an incubator—in this case, Your college.
  • But, are you making the most of your college incubator experience? While in its pre-launch stage, You Incorporated needs to find a market, develop a product, build a business model, and envision a strategy for the future. Is that happening? Have you generated any traction yet?
  • Get that traction by discovering the lesson that all dorm room founders of unicorn ventures have learned and put into practice.

 

This program is perfect for:

  • All college students, Freshman through Senior,  regardless of major who are planning for their post-college experience.

The audience will leave with:

  • Discern The real and only reason for being a college student.
  • Discover the one practice that all dorm room founders of unicorn ventures have also discovered and put into action.
  • Transform from a school-smart student into a street-wise entrepreneur.

Main Stage Facilitator at Entrepreneur Events

Book me as the MC or Host of your event.

Here’s the secret to my magic:

  • Help participants network through brief, structured activities between sessions to connect with others, and immediately apply what they just heard to their own situations
  • Get the audience up and moving between long stretches of content, to give them “brain breaks”
  • Deliver relevant commentary between speakers (my style is a mix of conversational and quizzical—always with an evocative take away.)
  • Have fun! Because a meeting without fun is not engaging or memorable.

 

Book me as a Conversationalist Conducting Main Stage Interviews at your event.

Here’s the secret to my magic:

  • Put the guest at ease on the stage creating an atmosphere for a sociable and responsive dialogue.
  • Engage in an authentic conversation enabling the guest’s thought leadership to naturally emerge.
  • Draw attention to the guest’s insights as viral social media posts and valuable take-aways for audience members.

 

Book me as a Panel Moderator for your event.

Here’s the secret to my magic:

  • Research, prior to the event, the background, philosophies, and practices that define each panelist’s unique contribution to the discussion.
  • Nurture thought-provoking and respectful Exchanges of differing points of view among panelists.
  • Explore fresh ideas that take the discussion in unfamiliar directions and generate innovative perspectives.
  • Underscore panelist’s insights for viral social media posts and valuable take-aways for audience members.

VENTURE WITH VISION

Dr. Steven “S.J.” Maranville boosts the “Vision Acuity” of entrepreneurs by removing their blind spots and fitting them with new lenses so they Venture With Vision. Yes, Dr. Maranville is totally blind. And, while lacking eyesight, he has an abundance of entrepreneurial insight!

How’s your Vision Acuity? Are you ready to Venture With Vision?