The proof behind the perspective

The Proof Behind the New Rules of Growth.

Great keynotes aren’t built on theory alone.

Charles Gaudet brings lessons from the real world, drawn from years of helping founders and CEOs tackle their toughest growth challenges.

From improving sales performance to building companies that no longer depend on their founders, these client-reported results show the experience behind his ideas.

And the event organizers who’ve brought Charles to their stages tell a story of their own.

Real business experience. Proven speaking ability. Ideas worth sharing.

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Charles Gaudet on stage, pointing to a slide about the buyer’s journey, with audience members in the foreground

Proven on stage

The People Who Put Charles on Stage Say It Best.

An impressive résumé might get a speaker considered. What happens when they step onstage determines whether they get invited back.

Forbes Councils · Hired him multiple times

“We hired Charles Gaudet multiple times, and he’s, by far, our most popular speaker! He consistently delivers high-impact, actionable strategies, and our attendees walk away with renewed confidence in their ability to scale.
Charles’s presentations never fail to engage, and his insights drive real results. Highly recommend!”

Ashley Grant, Managing Director, Forbes Councils

Charles Gaudet speaking from a low stage to a full room of business owners seated at round tables

SMI · Annual industry conference keynote

“Charles Gaudet’s keynote was a standout highlight of our annual industry conference, which brought together top manufacturing CEOs.
He delivered bold, actionable insights on scaling businesses —even in tough economic conditions—and kept the audience captivated from start to finish.
Attendees left inspired and equipped with practical strategies, with most taking notes throughout the entire presentation. Without a doubt, he ranks among the best speakers we’ve ever hosted. I highly recommend him!”

Don Jacobson III, President, SMI

AI summit · Featured speaker

“Charles Gaudet was one of our featured speakers at our “Get Up to Speed with AI” Summit, and his session provided massive value for our audience. He shared so many golden nuggets that helped our audience shift the way they approach business growth, innovating with AI, and how to create consistency in their profitability. Even as the event producer, I took a bunch of notes from what he shared!
If you have a speaking opportunity and you want your audience to be “WOW’d”, I highly recommend having Charles Gaudet. He is delightful to work with and truly cares about making an impact. I definitely want to have him on our stages again in the future.”

Amy Yamada, Founder, IdealClient.ai (at time of event)

Stages he has spoken on

SMI
Forbes Councils
Entrepreneurs' Organization
Profound
YEC
WSIA

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See the Experience Behind the Endorsements.

Charles combines real business experience, challenging ideas, and practical insights to help leaders rethink what comes next.

See how he brings those ideas to life onstage.

Bring This Perspective to Your Audience.

Charles challenges leaders to rethink how they grow, lead, and compete in a changing business world.

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Tested in business

Real Businesses. Measurable Results.

The ideas Charles brings to the stage have been shaped by years of working with founders and CEOs on the challenges that determine whether businesses grow, stall, or scale.

These are examples of results reported by clients who worked with Charles and Predictable Profits.

closing rate, six months in: 4×; Nicholas DeNitto, CEO, Manufactur LLC; Client-reported. His review, Oct 2024.
revenue growth in the first year: 40%; Richard Lorenzen, Fifth Avenue Brands; Client-reported. His review, Apr 2022.
new leads in one year: 600+; Debra Boggs, CEO, D&S Executive Career Management; Client-reported. Her case study.
pitches won, up from one in seven: 5 in 7; Kathryn Wilson, Founder and CEO, VUE Health; Client-reported. Her case study.
from six figures to mid seven figures: 4 years; Krish Chopra, NPHub; Client-reported. His review, May 2022.

Client-reported results from people who worked with Charles and Predictable Profits. Results vary with the starting point, the industry and the work put in. A keynote shares the thinking behind this work. It does not promise these numbers.

Inside the results

What Changed Inside Three Companies.

A number says what happened. These three stories say why, and what other leaders can take from it.

Demand generation and buyer trust

D&S Executive Career Management

Debra Boggs, CEO

The challenge: The firm had grown mostly on referrals. Marketing was ad hoc and nothing was tracked. Weekly LinkedIn Live sessions raised its visibility without driving growth anyone could measure.
The shift: She paired every live session with a resource viewers could download, packaged her services into one named method, and began reviewing revenue and pipeline numbers with her team twice a week.
The result: More than 600 new leads in a year. “I thought, is this what it’s supposed to feel like? I’m shopping and leads are coming in.”
The bigger lesson: Attention is not demand. An audience becomes a pipeline when every piece of content gives the buyer a next step.

The keynote on this idea: The Pre-Sold Buyer: Turn Content Into Trust Before the First CallClient-reported. Read Debra’s full case study

Sales performance and predictable revenue

VUE Health

Kathryn Wilson, Founder and CEO

The challenge: The agency grew on her network. Then several long RFP processes ended in lost deals. “I would tell clients that hope is not a strategy. But it was the strategy I was using for my own business.”
The shift: She narrowed exactly who the agency serves, tested her points of difference with the buyers themselves, and replaced capabilities presentations with case studies and a launch readiness guide. In October 2025 she stopped answering RFPs.
The result: “Now I’m pitching for seven pieces of business and I’m getting five.” In the early years, one in seven was a good outcome. Prospects now arrive having read a case study or downloaded her guide.
The bigger lesson: The sale is won before the pitch. Buyers who have already studied your thinking arrive close to a decision.

The keynote on this idea: The Invisible Shortlist: How Buyers Choose Before They Contact YouClient-reported. Read Kathryn’s full case study

Leadership, systems and scalable growth

eLuminate Marketing

Lyndsi Edgar, CEO

The challenge: She was the strategist, the content creator and the face on every client call. “It all lived in my head. There were no systems.” When work got busy, selling was the first thing to slip.
The shift: She handed the daily sales activity to an assistant, kept the strategic conversations for herself, and started running the agency from a dashboard of numbers instead of instinct.
The result: She took a six-week RV trip with her family. The agency kept running and sales continued. In her words, “the business is still growing.”
The bigger lesson: A company that needs its founder in every meeting has not scaled. Systems are what let it grow without her.

The keynote on this idea: The Growth Trap: Why More Tactics Won’t Fix What’s BrokenClient-reported. Read Lyndsi’s full case study

Client testimonials

Business Leaders on Working With Charles.

The principles Charles shares onstage come from real business challenges.

Hear directly from founders and CEOs who’ve worked with him and see how those experiences shaped the ideas behind his presentations.

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Jayson Gaignard

CEO, MMT

“I am officially out of the revenue side of the business and the sales side of the business. Our conversion rate is actually better than when I led it firsthand.”

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Garrett Gunderson

New York Times bestselling author

“His insights were so spot on and so clear that I knew exactly what to do, when to do it, and how to improve everything I was up to.”

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Mike Koenigs

Serial entrepreneur, 40+ years

“Every coach needs a coach. Every guru needs a guru, and Charles Gaudet is the coach’s coach and the guru’s guru. He asked me questions I haven’t been asked before.”

Two more client videosMichael Mogill and Duran Inci

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Michael Mogill

Founder and CEO, Crisp Video Group

“Since we started working together, your coaching and mentorship delivered the exact strategy, perspective, and accountability we needed.”

Quote from his Predictable Profits case study.

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Duran Inci

Founder and CEO, Optimum7

“Charles is the real deal. They understand my business and helped me grow my company and vision significantly.”

Quote from his written review.

Respected by leaders

Respected by Business Leaders.

Charles’s perspective has earned the respect of entrepreneurs and business leaders who understand what it takes to build successful companies.

These are personal endorsements from people who have worked with Charles and his firm. They speak to his thinking and his work, not to a specific keynote.

“Charles Gaudet has become an indispensable thought partner and brings a perspective you won’t hear from anyone else.
I often think that if I had worked with him when I started Planet Fitness, my success today could have been ten times greater.”

Michael Grondahl, Co-founder, Planet Fitness

A personal endorsement. “Ten times greater” is his own reflection on what might have been, not a measured result.

“When you work with Predictable Profits®, everyone on the team performs at a higher level. You get strategies that help you think differently and results come quickly.”

Scott Gerber, CEO, Community Co

“Within 90 days of working with them, our Q1 revenue beat out our entire previous year’s revenue. This happened during the COVID-19 crisis when the world was practically shut down.
Predictable Profits is the real deal.”

Shama Hyder, CEO, Zen Media

“I’ve worked with some extraordinary people in this world, and Charles Gaudet is no exception. He sits among an exclusive list of positive deviants who are changing the world and opening up new possibilities for innovation, growth, and contribution.”

Marshall Thurber, Serial Entrepreneur, Visionary and Author

“I’m neurotically picky about who I work with. I’m looking for excellence, nuance, deep care, and someone who is relentless about getting it jusssst right. Charles Gaudet and the Predictable Profits Team is exactly that. Highly recommend!”

Josh Shipp, Founder of Youth Speaker University

His ideas have been featured in

Forbes
Inc.
Entrepreneur
Fox Business
Yahoo Finance
SUCCESS
Schwab Network
International Business Times
Salesforce

Press and media

Additional Client Feedback.

More from founders and teams who have worked with Charles and Predictable Profits, in their own words.

“For the first time in 20-plus years of running my own business, I truly feel like I’m running it. By implementing their systems, I’m seeing real growth in my outreach, my messaging, and even my overall outlook. They’ve built something truly valuable.”

Rich Bornstein

Client review

“After completing a short survey, we explored our individual motivators and how they influence our behaviors. Since the workshop, there’s been a really positive shift in energy. Team members are referencing their motivators as a foundation for what they’re doing.”

Kristen Albrecht, After a team workshop

Client review

“Charlie’s exceptional. Present, attentive, well researched and clearly passionate about his clients’ success. Having an experienced sage in your corner during periods of growth or transition pays for themselves many, many times over. You can’t do better than the team at Predictable Profits.”

Chris Taylor

Client review, Mar 2025

“From 30,000 feet strategic view to tactical plan with practical advice on how to execute, Charles Gaudet and his team are the real deal.”

Eric Rozenberg

Client review, Oct 2024

“This is my best year to date and I attribute a lot to the team at Predictable Profits. They provide such amazing nuggets of information week after week. I highly recommend.”

Lyndsi Edgar, eLuminate Marketing

Client review, Oct 2024

“Some of the deepest thinkers in business coaching. I absolutely love working with them.”

Rob Riggs

Client review, Oct 2024

Predictable Profits publishes these as Google reviews of the firm, alongside many more, at predictableprofits.com/testimonials.

More client results12 short accounts, in the clients’ words

“Monthly revenue tripled in just under five months. We went from being nervous about hiring to bringing on four full-time employees.”

Bob Spoerl, President, Bear Icebox

“In the 7 months we’ve worked together and the 7 figures we’ve made together, you’ve allowed me to focus on my job and even push what I thought was possible HIGHER.”

Brad Stafford, CEO, Financial Marketers & Publishing Group

“It completely changed how we operate. Now, every decision is based on numbers, not guesswork.”

Debra Boggs, CEO, D&S Executive Career Management

“Their framework for creating a sales playbook led to a 30% sales increase within the first six months.”

Patrick Barnhill, CEO, SpecialistID

“Helped take our company to the next level. We just had the best quarter in company history.”

Magnus Simonarson, President, ConsultWebs

“Now I’m pitching for seven pieces of business and I’m getting five.”

Kathryn Wilson, Founder and CEO, VUE Health

“We shifted to a new market and had one of our best months even during the pandemic.”

Tom Burden, CEO, Grypmat (Seen on Shark Tank)

“We’ve had our best back-to-back months in over a year since working with Predictable Profits®.”

Johnny Dzubak & AJ Harbinger, Co-founders, The Art of Charm

“Most insightful business coach since Brian Tracy quadrupled my income 15 years ago.”

Kevin Donlin, CEO, Client Cloning Systems

“Since I started working with you, I’ve made more money in that time span than any other time since I’ve been in business.”

Todd Mitchell, CEO, Trading Concepts, Inc.

“Predictable Profits transformed our sales team and grew our revenue 40% in the first year. Having them as an objective, trusted advisor who can look at your company from the outside in has been invaluable.”

Richard Lorenzen, Fifth Avenue Brands

“Life-changing experience. Consistent and steady growth. I just closed my most successful month.”

Nikki Woods, CEO, Navesink Wellness

More endorsements5 more from founders, authors and operators

“Thirty years ago I started a niche business and sold it. It is still generating revenue today. If I had Predictable Profits® as my guide back then I would be very rich today. Don’t miss this.”

Danny Hatch, Author, Target Marketing Magazine

“The more time I spend with Charlie, the more I appreciate his wisdom and experience.
A true giver, Charlie will do what it takes to help anyone succeed. He is a rare person who makes a difference.”

Danny Schayes, 18-season NBA veteran, Entrepreneur

“The first time I worked with him on a project, I knew from the start that we would be successful, and we were. He was so impactful for me that I am confident that his special abilities in business will make a huge difference for anyone!”

Wendy Lucero-Schayes, Entrepreneur, Olympian, 9X National Champion

“Charles is an exceptionally talented businessman. He makes the best of any situation, and isn’t afraid to try new things to create even better results. I’ve worked with him for over three years and am looking forward to many more! Charles comes highly recommended.”

Mike Guida, Director of Marketing, GetAds

“…[I found value in] figuring out generally where to spend my time as an entrepreneur to get the most value and business growth out of my daily activities. We recently went through an exercise where I realized I was fishing in the wrong pond. That one exercise will probably save me 6-months of working my business…”

Jen Gordon, CEO, The Hope Deck

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Your Audience Deserves Ideas That Work Beyond the Stage.

Charles brings real-world experience, challenging perspectives, and practical strategies to the conversations that matter most to business leaders.

Whether you’re hosting a leadership summit, CEO retreat, or industry conference, let’s find the right message for your audience.

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