AI is already changing how experts are discovered, compared, hired, and paid.
This workshop will show you how to use AI strategically to make your expertise more visible, more valuable, and easier to monetize—without turning your voice, ideas, or intellectual property into generic AI content.
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Business Growth AI Summit
With Ford Saeks & Darren LaCroix
- LOCATION: Live or Virtual
- TIME: 9 AM to 5:15 PM-ISH
Practical AI Strategies
This Is Not Another AI Tools Workshop
You do not need 47 more apps.
You need to understand how AI actually applies to your speaking, training, consulting, coaching, or author business.
You’ll learn how to use AI to:
Get Found
Improve your discoverability.
Recommendation engines, answer engines, and buyer summaries now decide who looks credible and who gets skipped. If your business isn’t built for that environment, you’re not competing — you’re relying on luck.
Get Booked
Research prospects, clients, and speaking opportunities faster.
They research with AI long before they talk to a person. By the time they reach you, they’ve already compared you to four competitors and half-decided.
Leverage Your IP
Repurpose your intellectual property into more valuable content and offers.
There’s now an AI sitting between you and your prospect, deciding who gets found and who gets filtered before a human ever fills out a form.
Scale Your Expertise
Create leverage around your expertise.
Recommendation engines, answer engines, and buyer summaries now decide who looks credible and who gets skipped. If your business isn’t built for that environment, you’re not competing — you’re relying on luck.
Work Smarter
Build smarter workflows.
They research with AI long before they talk to a person. By the time they reach you, they’ve already compared you to four competitors and half-decided.
Stay Human
Protect your voice, judgment, and human connection.
There’s now an AI sitting between you and your prospect, deciding who gets found and who gets filtered before a human ever fills out a form.
The goal is simple:
Use AI to become more valuable—not more generic.
If You Make Money From What You Know, This Is For You
This workshop is designed specifically for:
Speakers who want more visibility, stronger positioning, and more opportunities.
Authors who want to turn their ideas and books into a bigger business.
Trainers who want to create and customize content faster while improving delivery.
Consultants and coaches who want to package expertise, create leverage, and serve clients more efficiently.
If your business depends on your ideas, experience, frameworks, stories, or intellectual property, AI is already affecting your future.
The question is whether you know how to use it strategically.
What You’ll Leave With
You’ll leave with greater clarity around:
Instead, you’ll spend two days working directly with Ford Saeks and walk out with these 5 deliverables, done:
- How AI is changing the way experts get found and chosen
- Where AI can create leverage in your business
- How to make your expertise easier to discover
- How to use AI with your existing content and intellectual property
- How to identify new revenue opportunities
- How to streamline repetitive work
- How to keep the human in the loop
Most importantly, you’ll stop wondering:
“What AI tool should I use?”
And start asking:
“How can AI help me grow my expert business?”
AI Should Amplify Your Expertise—Not Replace It
Your greatest value is not the software. It’s your…
Let’s clear something up before you read another word. This is not a conference. There are no flashy demos. No tool overload. No book-report presentations with prettier slides.
You will not hear:
- Experience
- Ideas
- Judgment
- Stories
- Frameworks
- Perspective
- Relationships
AI should help you put leverage around those things.
It should make you more effective.
More visible.
More scalable.
And more valuable.
It should not make you sound like everyone else.
With Ford Saeks & Darren LaCroix
Ford Saeks helps experts and organizations use AI as a business growth tool—not a shiny object.
Ford Saeks is a Business Growth Accelerator who turns disruption into measurable revenue. For decades he’s guided companies through market shifts, technology shake-ups, and competitive pressure by relentlessly focusing on three things: what works, what scales, and what drives results. His work spans small businesses, global enterprises, franchise systems, and associations across dozens of industries.
One presenter. One framework. One outcome.
Ford’s private consulting starts at $15,000 and climbs from there. This is your chance to spend two full days working directly with him in a hands-on implementation workshop for a fraction of that.
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ABOUT DARREN LACROIX
Darren LaCroix understands the business of speaking, communication, connection, and influence.
In 2001, Darren LaCroix, the World Champion of Public Speaking, outspoke 25,000 contestants from 14 countries to win that title. Since that victory, Darren has traveled the world, demystifying the process of creating a powerful speech. He is the author of Deliver Unforgettable Presentations & 17 Minutes to Your Dream, and co-hosts the Unforgettable Presentations podcast.
Together, Ford and Darren will help you understand where AI belongs in your expert business—and where the human must stay firmly in control.
BONUS SESSION Randy Gage
You’ll also get a bonus session from Randy Gage, New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Breakthrough U Entrepreneur Accelerator program. You’ll learn how entrepreneurs use AI to:
- Increase creativity instead of outsourcing thinking
- Amplify productivity without losing originality
- Create better marketing without producing AI slop
- Become smarter operators instead of passive users
Because there’s a fork in the road here: One path uses AI to think bigger, move faster, and create work that’s unmistakably yours. The other outsources the thinking and ships generic garbage that sounds like everyone else. Randy will show you, in no uncertain terms, how to stay on the right side of that line.
The Real Problem
The Rules Are Changing
AI is already influencing how prospects search, how meeting planners research, how clients compare, and how experts build and monetize their authority.
Doing nothing is not neutral.
The experts who learn how to combine real expertise with AI-powered leverage will have a major advantage.
Make sure you’re one of them.
January 22 & 23 | Virtual or Live in Las Vegas
AI for Speakers, Authors, Trainers & Consultants
With Ford Saeks & Darren LaCroix
30-Person Hands-On Working Summit
Friday & Saturday 9:00AM – 5:00ishPM Pacific Time
Reserve Your Seat
One investment. Two ways to attend.
Same price, same content, same replays.
In-Person
$1,977 $2,477
Save $500 before November 5
The Seven Hills Conference Center — Jan 22 & 23, 9:00 AM–5:00ish PM PT. Limited to 30 seats so every person gets hands-on implementation and personal feedback.
- Two full days in the room with Ford, capped at 30 seats
- Build your own AI Co-Brain trained on your business
- Create an AI workflow that automates a real business task
- Produce an AI-generated promotional video
- Design a new AI-generated website or improve your existing one
- Complete an AI Discoverability Audit
- Opportunity to volunteer as a Hot Seat on stage with Ford
- Video replays, templates & implementation guides
- Direct access to Ford and Randy throughout the event
Virtual — Live
$1,977 $2,477
Save $500 before November 5
Jan 22 & 23, 9:00 AM–5:00ish PM PT. Full live stream, both days, plus replays. Same investment, different zip code.
- Full two-day live stream access, real time
- Build your own AI Co-Brain trained on your business
- Create an AI workflow that automates a real business task
- Produce an AI-generated promotional video
- Design a new AI-generated website or improve your existing one
- Complete an AI Discoverability Audit
- Video replays, templates & implementation guides
Ford’s private consulting starts at $15,000. This summit is the most direct way to spend two full days working with him.
One Last Thing...
You already know how this plays out if you don’t come:
You’ll close this page. You’ll mean to think about it. Another tool will trend next week and you’ll feel the familiar pull of behind and you’ll save another bookmark you never open.
Or
You spend two days in a room with thirty people and walk out with six tools you actually use, a stack of assets that would’ve cost you 35 grand, and the quiet confidence that you’ll never feel “behind” on this again.
The noise isn’t going away. But you can stop letting it run your business.
Thirty seats. When they’re gone, they’re gone.
Ford’s private consulting starts at $15,000. This summit is the most direct way to spend two full days working with him.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Let’s take a look at some questions you may have. If you need additional support, please contact us, and a member of our team will assist you as soon as possible.
The AI Summit is built for growth-focused leaders who want to turn AI into measurable business results — not just experiment with tools.
This event is ideal for:
- Entrepreneurs and business owners
- Franchise executives and multi-unit operators
- Corporate leaders and department heads
- Sales and marketing leaders
- Consultants and professional service providers
- Operations and innovation decision-makers
If you are responsible for driving revenue, improving efficiency, increasing customer engagement, or leading transformation inside your organization — this event was designed for you.
Whether you are brand new to AI or already using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or automation platforms, you will gain practical frameworks you can apply immediately.
Beginner. Intermediate. Advanced.
If you want clarity, strategy, and execution — you belong in the room.
The AI Summit is led by Ford Saeks, Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker, Business Growth Accelerator, and author of AI Mindshift and AI Alchemy.
Ford has helped generate over $1 billion in sales for his clients and is known for turning complex AI strategies into practical, real-world implementation that drives measurable results.
This is not theory. This is applied business growth.
The AI Summit takes place in Henderson, Nevada.
Full venue details, address, and event schedule are provided on the confirmation page immediately after registration.
Doors open at 8:45 AM.
The program runs from 9:00 AM to approximately 5:00 PM.
We recommend arriving early to allow time for check-in and networking.
You will leave with:
- Proven AI implementation frameworks
- Practical prompt systems you can deploy immediately
- Marketing and automation workflows
- Real business case studies
- A clear 90-day AI action roadmap
- Increased clarity and confidence around AI strategy
You will not leave with hype.
You will leave with execution.
Yes.
If you are new to AI, you will gain clarity and confidence.
If you are already experimenting with advanced AI tools, you will gain structure, frameworks, and strategic leverage.
This event is designed to meet you at your current level and elevate you from there.
Yes.
This is a hands-on working session. Bring:
- Your laptop
- Your charger
- A notebook
- Your biggest business challenge
You will be building and refining real AI workflows during the event.
Refunds for cancellation will be made on the following basis: A full refund, less a $50 processing fee, will be granted if requested 31 days prior to live event. If cancelling within 30 days of live event, registration credit will be given towards any future Stage Time University Live Event. Credits on LIVE events expire after 1 year of cancellation. Cancellations must be made via email to support@stagetimeuniversity.com. No refunds or credits will be granted for no-shows. Because of travel and other expenses, we reserve the right to cancel or reschedule any live event that does not have a minimum of 10 participants. This SELDOM happens, but if it does, registrants will be notified immediately, and rescheduled, refunded, or given credit for a future event for the amount originally paid for this event. Registration for any event sponsored by Stage Time University constitutes your acceptance of this Event Refund & Cancellation Policy.
Yes, virtual tickets are available. The event will be recorded, and attendees will receive access to the replay after the event.
No technical background is required.
You do not need coding skills or advanced technical knowledge.
If you can use email and a web browser, you can implement what you will learn.
