Built to hold: strategy for the next downturn
Opening keynote for a regional growth summit of founders and family-business owners.
Events and Speaking with Maia Lafortezza
Join Maia Lafortezza partners online or in person, or invite one of them to speak to your leadership team, conference or investor group.
Upcoming
Speaking topics
The defensible business
Five sources of advantage that still hold when markets turn, and how mid-sized firms can build them on purpose.
Escaping the founder trap
A practical model for moving decisions, relationships and knowledge out of the founder’s head and into the business.
Operating rhythm for growing teams
The weekly, monthly and quarterly cadence that keeps strategy alive between planning cycles.
Recent appearances
Operators on AI: what actually shipped
A candid panel with three COOs on automation projects that paid back, and the ones that stalled.
Decision rights masterclass
A half-day workshop for leadership teams redesigning who decides what, and how fast.