Keynotes & Workshops

The New Rules of Growth. Brought to Life on Stage.

AI is changing how we work. Buyers are changing how they choose. And the old approach to growth, adding more tactics, more people, and more work for the founder, isn’t enough.

Charles Gaudet challenges leaders to rethink what they know about growth, then gives them practical ways to lead stronger teams, win more customers, and build businesses that don’t depend on one person.

Bold ideas. Real-world experience. Strategies your audience can put to work.

Built for CEO forums, leadership summits, industry conferences, and entrepreneurial communities. Every presentation is tailored to the people in the room.

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Past stages

SMI
Forbes Councils
Entrepreneurs' Organization
Profound
YEC
WSIA

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Proof he delivers on stage

“We hired Charles Gaudet multiple times, and he’s, by far, our most popular speaker!”

Ashley Grant, Managing Director, Forbes Councils

The business experience behind the ideas

$1B+ in client revenue
1,000+ founders coached
55+ industries

Four signature keynotes

One point of view. Four questions your audience is asking.

Each keynote takes on a different question. Start with the one your room is asking.

AI & LeadershipNew

Stop Buying AI. Start Leading the Work.

Your competitors can buy the same AI tools. What they can’t buy is how you lead.

Discover how to build teams where humans and AI agents work together, make your best people dramatically more effective, and stop turning the founder into the company’s chief problem-solver.

This isn’t about replacing people with AI. It’s about giving great people the tools, systems, and leadership to achieve what was once impossible.

Your audience will

Identify where AI creates real leverage and where it simply creates more busywork.
Discover how to redesign work around the strengths of humans and AI agents.
Learn how leaders can create accountability, ownership, and measurable results across human and agentic teams.

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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.

Changing Buyer Behavior

The Invisible Shortlist: How Buyers Choose Before They Contact You

Your next customer might eliminate you before your sales team even knows they’re looking.

Today’s buyers research, compare, and form opinions long before they speak with a salesperson. AI is accelerating that shift.

Charles reveals what happens during the invisible buying journey, why traditional growth strategies are losing their edge, and what companies must do to become the obvious choice before the first conversation.

Your audience will

Understand how buyer behavior and AI are changing the way companies get discovered and selected.
Identify where prospective customers may be eliminating their company before making contact.
Discover how to build the visibility, credibility, and trust needed to get onto the buyer’s shortlist.

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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.

Demand Generation

The Pre-Sold Buyer: Turn Content Into Trust Before the First Call

More content doesn’t mean more customers.

Most companies are publishing more, spending more, and working harder to capture attention. Yet their prospects still aren’t ready to buy.

Charles reveals how to stop creating marketing noise and start building the trust, authority, and preference that make prospects want to buy before they ever speak with your sales team.

Your audience will

Understand why producing more content rarely solves a demand problem.
Discover how to build buyer trust and preference before the sales conversation.
Learn how to create marketing that prepares prospects to buy instead of simply generating clicks and leads.

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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.

Predictable Growth & Scaling

The Growth Trap: Why More Tactics Won’t Fix What’s Broken

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 reveals why successful businesses hit growth ceilings, how to uncover the real constraints holding them back, and what it takes to create a company that grows without demanding more of the founder.

Your audience will

Discover why adding more marketing, more salespeople, or more effort doesn’t always create growth.
Learn how to identify the constraints that prevent a business from scaling.
Understand how demand generation, sales execution, and operational systems work together to create predictable growth.

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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.

What event organizers say

From the people who put him on their stage

“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

“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)

“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 Investor

Workshops

When the room wants to do the work

A keynote changes how a room thinks. A workshop puts that thinking to work. For companies and leadership teams that want to apply Charles’s frameworks, every keynote extends into a 90 min or half-day workshop.

Cracking the Code of Predictable Profits. The hands-on version of The Growth Trap: a working diagnostic of Setup, Sales and Scale that ends with one priority, an owner and evidence of progress.
Custom-designed workshops. Built around your room’s context, priorities and next moves. Charles designs and creates a workshop for your audience when a standard session isn’t the right fit.

How the workshops run Custom workshops

Before you book

Booking Charles

What formats does Charles offer?: A 60 min keynote, in person or virtual, or a 90 min or half-day workshop. Each keynote runs in both.
Who are the talks for?: Founders and CEOs. All four keynotes come out of Predictable Profits client work with 7- and 8-figure companies, and all four are built for rooms where the founder still owns the growth number. If none of them fits, Charles designs a workshop for your room.
Does Charles travel, and does he speak virtually?: Charles is based in Jupiter, Florida, and speaks worldwide. Every keynote also runs as a 60 minute virtual session.
Can a talk be tailored to our audience?: Yes. Every booking starts with a briefing on your room: who is in it, what they sell, and what you need them to do differently afterwards. Organizers have called the result tailored perfectly to their community.
What does Charles charge?: In-person keynotes and workshops start at $20,000. Travel billed separately. Virtual keynotes are $12,500. Share your date and event details in the booking form and you will have a quote within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.
How does booking work?: Send your date (even if it is still moving), event type, location and audience size through the booking form. Charles replies within 24 hours, Monday to Friday. The speaking kit has the talk abstracts and bios in three lengths.

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Give Your Audience More Than Another Motivational Speech.

Give them a fresh perspective on the challenges they’re facing, practical ideas they can use, and a conversation that continues long after the event ends.

60 min keynote
90 min or half-day workshop
In person or virtual

Based in Jupiter, FL. Available worldwide.

Inquire About Booking Charles

You’ll hear back within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

Or write to Charles@CharlesGaudet.com

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