The story behind the speaker
Charles Gaudet has been building businesses since he was four years old.
By his early twenties, he was more than $1 million in business debt. By 24, he’d built his first multimillion-dollar company.
Those experiences taught him something no business textbook could: Growth isn’t just about making more money. It’s about building something that works, even when everything around you changes.
Since then, Charles has spent his career studying, testing, and challenging conventional wisdom about what makes businesses grow, why they stall, and what it takes to build companies that don’t depend entirely on their founders.
Today, as CEO of Predictable Profits, Charles brings that experience to the stage, challenging leaders to rethink how they win customers, lead their people, and build businesses in a world where the old playbook no longer works.
Real experience. Hard-earned lessons. A fresh perspective on what comes next.
The entrepreneurial journey
In Charles’s words
Age 4
I started my first business at four, selling my artwork to the neighbors. I never really stopped.
After Babson College I skipped the traditional job and went straight into building companies.
Early 20s
Then it got hard. I was more than $1 million in business debt.
I was setting my alarm for 3:30 a.m. so I wouldn’t “oversleep.” I was living the Founder’s Trap before I had a name for it.
What it taught meHard work and progress are not the same thing. You can give a business every hour you have and still go backward.
By 24
I kept going. Differently. By 24, I had built my first multimillion-dollar company.
What it taught meGrowth doesn’t fix a business. It magnifies it. Without systems, more revenue brings more decisions, more chaos and more work for the person at the top.
The search
I wanted to know how the best builders do it. So I studied how billionaires and centimillionaires build their companies, and I traveled the world with Tony Robbins as a Platinum Partner.
The pattern I found changed how I build. Growth gets engineered, not hustled.
What it taught meA lot of standard advice makes things worse. Work harder. Hustle more. Stay at the center of everything. Follow it far enough and you get a company that can’t function without you.
2010 to today
In 2010, a founder offered to pay me to help grow their company. That was the start of Predictable Profits.
Since then, my team and I have coached more than 1,000 founders across dozens of industries.
What it keeps teaching meThe assumptions that built a company are often the ones holding it back. The leaders who keep growing keep questioning what made them successful.
The philosophy
The old playbook said growth comes from more. More tactics. More people. More of the founder. I stopped believing that. Three beliefs took its place, and they run through every keynote I give.
The future of business isn’t about replacing entire teams with software.
It’s about designing companies where capable people and intelligent agents work together to achieve things neither could accomplish alone.
The companies that win won’t necessarily have the most AI tools. They’ll be the ones that know how to lead people and agents toward meaningful results.
The keynoteStop Buying AI. Start Leading the Work.
Buyers don’t wait for salespeople to educate them anymore.
They research, compare, seek recommendations, and form opinions before making contact.
Winning companies understand how to create demand, earn trust, and become the obvious choice before the first conversation.
The keynotesThe Invisible ShortlistThe Pre-Sold Buyer
More revenue doesn’t automatically mean a better business.
If growth creates more chaos, more decisions, and more work for the founder, the company hasn’t truly scaled.
Predictable growth comes from building the right systems, developing capable leaders, and creating a business that performs beyond the founder’s direct involvement.
The keynoteThe Growth Trap
The proof
A point of view earns a stage after it has been tested. His has been tested where it counts: inside real companies.
1,000+ founders coached
Why it mattersThe patterns in his keynotes come from more than a thousand founders, not from one success story.
55+ industries
Why it mattersThe ideas hold up outside any one niche, so they travel to a mixed room.
$1B+ in client revenue
Why it mattersPredictable Profits clients have generated more than $1 billion in revenue. That revenue is theirs, earned by their teams. It shows the size of the companies where these ideas have been put to work.
Inside single companies, that has looked like a marketing agency that grew from $950K to $46M in six years, a $1.17 million launch in five days (more than the prior six months combined), a product that sold more from a few emails than it had in the previous year, and a global travel company that posted record e-commerce months through the pandemic. Several clients have earned Fastest Growing Company status.
Founder and CEO
Charles founded Predictable Profits in 2010 and leads it today. Earlier, Ernst & Young nominated his angel-financed pet health insurance company as one of the nation’s best seed-stage companies, and VentureOne selected it.
He speaks as an operator. The decisions he asks leaders to rethink are ones he has had to make.
Author
His book won a National Indie Excellence Award and a Royal Dragonfly Book Award. Forbes put it on its list of “6 Books To Make You A Better Business Leader.”
The Predictable Profits PlaybookIn the media
Yahoo Finance calls him “The CEO Whisperer.” International Business Times named him “The Go-To Business Coach for 7 and 8 Figure Entrepreneurs.”
His advice has run in Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, Fox Business, SUCCESS and Salesforce, and he has been interviewed on Schwab Network and TD Ameritrade Network.
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SalesforceThe speaker
Plenty of speakers talk about business. Charles runs one. That changes what an audience hears.
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Past stages
He has keynoted for Forbes Councils, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, YEC, SMI, Profound and the Water Sports Industry Association, and Forbes Councils has hired him back multiple times.
“We brought Charles in to speak to our mastermind members of top business minds in our area and he broke down so powerfully yet so simply how to turn up our businesses regardless of the market we are in.
He showed us specific frameworks that applied to all of the diverse businesses represented in our group that will help us get more business more consistently without burning out in the process.
He came early and stayed late and answered everyone’s questions after his talk and in between his sessions. He was a huge hit, and I highly recommend him.”
Arel Moodie, Co-Founder, Profound Mastermind“We brought Charlie and his team in to present on predictable profits, and where so many presentations sacrifice details for engagement, Charlie managed to offer a working session that was both deeply engaging and rooted in real-world application and next steps. All of our members walked away with clear action items and, maybe most importantly, confidence that there was a path forward to reach their goals. Highly recommend working with Charlie and his team if you feel stuck in your business.”
Mary Finch, EO Washington DC
Beyond business
The number Charles cares about most isn’t revenue. It’s whether a leader can step away for a month and come back to a company that grew.
He has a competitive wrestling background, the kind of sport where nobody else can do the work for you. He holds a Certificate of Leadership Development from the U.S. Army War College. And he hosts Beyond 7-Figures, a podcast of conversations with founders and operators about what it takes to scale.
He lives in Jupiter, Florida.
Podcast
Connect
Talks, client work and the occasional stage photo.
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Stage introduction
Written to be read aloud. About 40 seconds.
Our next speaker is a founder, CEO, and award-winning author who challenges leaders to rethink what it takes to grow a successful business.
Charles Gaudet built his first multimillion-dollar company by age 24 and went on to found Predictable Profits, where his team has coached more than 1,000 founders across 55 industries.
His insights have appeared in Forbes, Inc., and Fox Business, and he’s spoken for organizations including Forbes Councils and Entrepreneurs’ Organization.
Today, Charles brings a fresh perspective on AI, changing buyer behavior, and the new rules of business growth.
Please welcome Charles Gaudet!
Bring Charles to your next event
The best keynotes don’t end when the speaker leaves the stage. They change the conversations leaders have, the assumptions they challenge, and the decisions they make next.
Bring Charles Gaudet to your next event and give your audience ideas worth thinking about long after the applause.
Based in Jupiter, FL. Available worldwide.
Or write to Charles@CharlesGaudet.com