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Charles Gaudet is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and CEO who challenges leaders to rethink the rules of business growth.
From leading human-plus-AI teams to winning today’s buyers and building companies that scale, Charles delivers bold ideas backed by real-world experience.
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Watch how he combines business experience, challenging ideas, and practical insights to engage leaders and spark new thinking.
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“We hired Charles Gaudet multiple times, and he’s, by far, our most popular speaker!”
Ashley Grant, Managing Director, Forbes Councils


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The question it answersHow do we make our people and AI dramatically more effective?
Best forAI conferences, executive leadership summits, CEO groups, and future-of-work events.
Event promotional copy · 66 words
Your competitors can buy the same AI tools you can. What they can’t buy is how you lead. In this keynote, Charles Gaudet shows why more software rarely fixes a leadership problem, and what changes when people and AI agents work as one team. You’ll leave with a clearer view of where AI creates real leverage, where it only creates busywork, and how to lead both.
Companies keep adding AI tools, yet the work itself barely changes. People are unsure where they fit. Leaders end up solving more problems, not fewer.
AI agents can now take on real work, so the advantage is shifting. Every competitor can buy the same tools. Few know how to lead a team where people and agents work side by side.
Charles Gaudet treats AI as a leadership question, not a technology purchase. An agent is a new kind of team member. It needs a clear job, a measure of success, and a person who owns the result. This isn’t about replacing people. It’s about making great people better.
Attendees see how to redesign work around the strengths of people and AI agents, and how to hold both accountable for results.
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The question it answersWhat happens before buyers ever contact us?
Best forIndustry associations, business conferences, executive summits, and revenue leadership events.
Event promotional copy · 63 words
Your next customer may rule you out before your sales team knows they’re looking. Buyers now research, compare, and decide who makes the shortlist long before they reach out, and AI is speeding that up. Charles Gaudet takes you inside the hidden part of the buying journey and shows what it takes to be on the list when the first conversation finally happens.
Sales teams see the inquiry, the meeting, and the proposal. They don’t see the decisions buyers made before any of that. By the time a buyer reaches out, the shortlist is often set.
That hidden stretch is getting longer. Buyers do more of their own research, and AI now helps them find options, compare companies, and screen proposals. A credible company can be passed over without ever knowing it was considered.
Charles Gaudet maps what buyers do before they make contact: how they discover options, how they evaluate them, and what earns a conversation. He shows why growth strategies built for a straight-line funnel are losing their edge.
Attendees learn where they may be losing buyers they never see, and what kind of visibility, credibility, and proof gets a company onto the shortlist.
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The question it answersHow do we create demand and preference before the sales call?
Best forMarketing conferences, sales summits, business growth events, and entrepreneurial communities.
Event promotional copy · 62 words
More content doesn’t mean more customers. Most companies are publishing more and spending more, yet prospects still show up unsure and unready to buy. Charles Gaudet shows the difference between marketing that makes noise and marketing that builds trust. You’ll see how buyers come to prefer one company before the first sales call, and how to make yours the one they prefer.
Companies are publishing more, spending more, and working harder for attention. The leads come in, but too many arrive unconvinced. The sales team is left to build trust from zero.
Buyers now do their homework first. What they read, watch, and hear before the first call shapes who they trust. Marketing measured only by clicks and leads misses that work.
Charles Gaudet’s view is that consumption drives conversion. The goal isn’t more content. It’s content that helps buyers understand your approach, trust your judgment, and prefer you before they speak with your team. He shows how different kinds of content do different jobs, and how to offer ready buyers a next step while others keep learning.
Attendees learn to judge their marketing by the trust it builds, not the volume it produces.
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The question it answersWhat’s really preventing our company from scaling?
Best forCEO retreats, entrepreneurial conferences, founder communities, and executive peer groups.
Event promotional copy · 64 words
When growth stalls, most founders add another tactic, hire another person, or work even harder. But what if they’re solving the wrong problem? Charles Gaudet shows why successful companies hit a ceiling and how to find the real constraint behind it. You’ll leave knowing where to look first, and what it takes to build a company that grows without asking more of its founder.
A soft pipeline looks like a marketing problem. Stalled sales look like a closing problem. A founder working longer hours looks like a hiring problem. The symptom leaders see is not always the constraint holding the company back.
Leaders have more tactics, tools, and advice to choose from than ever. Adding one more is easy. Knowing which problem to solve first is hard, and a wrong guess costs time and money.
Charles Gaudet starts with diagnosis, not prescription. Drawing on work with more than 1,000 founders, he shows how three parts of a business depend on each other: how it creates demand, how it turns demand into sales, and how its systems and team support execution. A weakness in one often shows up in another.
Attendees learn how to find the constraint that matters most and choose where to focus next.
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Need a session built for your room? Charles also designs custom workshops
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Charles Gaudet is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and CEO of Predictable Profits. He built his first multimillion-dollar company at 24. His firm has coached more than 1,000 founders. On stage, he challenges leaders to rethink business growth, changing buyer behavior, and how humans and AI work together.
Charles Gaudet is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and CEO of Predictable Profits.
After navigating more than $1 million in business debt early in his career, he built his first multimillion-dollar company by age 24.
Since founding Predictable Profits in 2010, his firm has coached more than 1,000 founders across 55 industries.
An award-winning author whose ideas have appeared in Forbes, Inc., and Fox Business, Charles challenges leaders to rethink the rules of growth.
His keynotes explore how AI changes work, how buyers choose companies before making contact, and how businesses scale without depending on one person.
Charles Gaudet is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Predictable Profits. He challenges leaders to rethink the rules of business growth.
He started his first business at age four, selling his artwork to the neighbors. Early in his career, he faced more than $1 million in business debt. He dug his way out and built his first multimillion-dollar company by age 24.
In 2010, he founded Predictable Profits. Since then, his firm has coached more than 1,000 founders across 55 industries, helping business leaders rethink how they create demand, sell, lead, and scale.
Charles believes the rules of growth have changed. Buyers research, compare, and form opinions before they ever contact a company. AI is changing how work gets done. And a company that only grows when its founder works harder hasn’t truly scaled. On AI, his conviction is simple: it should make capable people better, not simply replace them.
On stage, he turns those ideas into keynotes leaders can use. His talks cover leading people and AI together, how buyers choose before they make contact, and how companies scale beyond their founders. Charles has spoken for organizations including Forbes Councils, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, and SMI. He is the award-winning author of The Predictable Profits Playbook, and his insights have appeared in Forbes, Inc., and Fox Business. Yahoo Finance calls him “The CEO Whisperer.”
Charles is based in Jupiter, Florida, and speaks to audiences worldwide, in person and virtually.
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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!
Why organizers book him
From an investor community
“Charles delivered a fantastic session that was engaging, well-structured, and tailored perfectly to our Lifestyle Investor community. Our members especially loved the workshop-style approach, which made the content immediately actionable. It was a clear value-add across the board, and we would definitely welcome him back anytime.”
Phoebe Mroczek, Director of Marketing, Lifestyle InvestorFrom an industry association’s annual conference
“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, SMIFrom the producer of an AI summit
“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.”
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