Speaking
Helping audiences rethink entrepreneurship, investing, AI, leadership, and human flourishing.
Two TEDx stages, hundreds of keynotes, and a room-warming style that leaves audiences with frameworks they use the next morning.
The mindset of startup investors
TEDxSanDiegoWomen · TEDx talk
Why the next generation of investors looks nothing like the last one — and what changes in a community when capital changes hands.
Getting to Even
TEDxChulaVista · TEDx talk
Closing the funding gap is not charity, it is math: what it takes to get women and founders of color to even.
Speaking themes
Eight signature talks.
Each keynote is adapted to your audience — from first-time investors to provosts to corporate innovation teams.
Women, Wealth & the Future of Investing
The largest wealth transfer in history is landing in women's hands. This keynote makes the case — and the plan — for what happens next.
Learning outcomes
- Understand the scale and timing of the wealth transfer
- Name a personal investment thesis in one sentence
- Leave with a first-check pathway and a peer circle
Ideal audience
Conferences, family offices, wealth platforms, women's leadership networks
The Startup Investor Mindset
The framework at the center of the book and the Institute: the 5 M's, thesis, diligence, portfolio construction, and founder evaluation.
Learning outcomes
- Apply the 5 M's to evaluate any early-stage deal
- Build a repeatable diligence checklist
- Design a portfolio strategy sized to your capital
Ideal audience
Angel groups, investor education programs, MBA and executive audiences
Capital, Calling & Culture
Purpose-driven leadership for people who move money. Built on the Culture & Calling framework and years of servant-leadership practice.
Learning outcomes
- Connect personal calling to capital decisions
- Adopt servant-leadership practices for teams and portfolios
- Define what flourishing means for your organization
Ideal audience
Faith-based organizations, foundations, leadership retreats, universities
Ethical AI & Human Flourishing
From the Flourishing AI work: how leaders adopt AI in ways that expand human dignity, learning, and work rather than shrink it.
Learning outcomes
- Assess AI initiatives against a flourishing standard
- Design AI-literate teams and classrooms
- Anticipate the ethical questions before deployment
Ideal audience
Universities, corporations, education leaders, policy convenings
Innovation Ecosystems
What it actually takes to build a startup community — the density, capital, talent, and relationships that make a region generative.
Learning outcomes
- Map your ecosystem's real gaps, not its optics
- Sequence programs, capital, and talent
- Set metrics an ecosystem can be held to
Ideal audience
Cities, economic development agencies, universities, corporate innovation teams
Women Building the Future
Confidence, community, and capital: the three things that turn talented women into founders and investors who compound each other.
Learning outcomes
- Replace permission-seeking with practice
- Build a personal board and investor circle
- Move from participation to ownership
Ideal audience
Women's summits, corporate ERGs, universities, accelerators
Faith, Entrepreneurship & Purpose
Redemptive innovation: building ventures that heal rather than extract, and leading from calling rather than pressure.
Learning outcomes
- Articulate a theology of work and enterprise
- Evaluate ventures for redemptive impact
- Lead with conviction under uncertainty
Ideal audience
Christian universities, faith-driven founders, foundations, ministry leaders
Servant Leadership in the Startup World
My active research area at Biola University's Flourishing Lab, and the foundation of my forthcoming career book, Power of Purpose: Servant Leadership in the Startup World.
Learning outcomes
- See how servant leadership outperforms hero leadership in high-growth teams
- Translate purpose into daily leadership practices
- Diagnose culture debt before it compounds
Ideal audience
Universities, founder cohorts, accelerators, executive teams, leadership retreats
Universities
University workshops & interactive lectures.
Semester-length modules or single guest sessions — hands-on, discussion-driven, and built for classrooms, accelerators, and entrepreneurship centers.
Trends in Innovation
Where technology, capital, and culture are heading next — and how students can position for it.
Investor Readiness
What investors actually look for, and how to get a venture diligence-ready.
Funding for Startups
The full capital landscape: friends and family, angels, funds, grants, and non-dilutive options.
Social Entrepreneurship
Designing ventures where impact and viability reinforce each other.
Servant Leadership
Research-backed leadership practices drawn from the Flourishing Lab at Biola University.
New Venture Finance
Cap tables, valuation, dilution, and the math behind early-stage decisions.
Entrepreneurship Dynamics & Dilemmas
The founder tradeoffs that textbooks skip — cofounders, control, and timing.
Booking
Let's talk about your audience.
Share a few details and you'll hear back within two business days with availability, fee range, and a tailored outline.
FAQ
What kinds of meetings can we have — and how long do they take?
Solid Strategy Session
A robust strategy session to dive into your business with strong strategy advice, mindfully leveraging your personal and company strengths.
What you can expect
- Clear strategic analysis of your needs
- Real 1-on-1 conversation and problem-solving session
- Servant leadership approach to solving strategic concerns
What we do together
- Work through your most challenging roadblocks
- Obtain clarity on goals towards launch or scale
- Leverage existing assets that might have been underserved
How it benefits you
- A clearer picture of a strategic plan to pursue, with actionable next steps
- More confidence in your own leadership to execute the action plan
The process
- Pre-work: you share your needs before the call for my review — through Calendly & email
- The session: a recorded 2-hour deep dive with me — over Zoom
- Post follow-up: an email with a strategic overview of the conversation and next steps
You become part of the She Invests community of leaders who flourish together.
Intro & support conversations
Everything else is simply a support and service to meet with you — a short conversation to understand what you're working on and point you to the right next step.
Good fits
- Keynote, workshop, and panel inquiries
- Investor, founder, and ecosystem questions
- University, fund, and community partnerships
Typical timelines
- Inquiry response within two business days
- Speaking engagements booked 4–12 weeks out
- Strategy sessions typically scheduled within 2–3 weeks