Format
Keynote
45–75 minute mainstage keynote, tailored to your audience and outcome.
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Bring the right voice to your stage.
Keynotes, panels, and fireside conversations for founder cohorts, corporate summits, lender events, and university stages. Every talk is tuned to the audience — no repurposed decks.
Bookable Formats
Four ways to put Jean' Austin on your stage.
Panelist, keynote, feature speaker, or workshop — the format follows the room. Pricing is tailored to audience, market, and travel; share your budget in the inquiry form and the booking team will respond with terms.
Format
Panelist
Panel seat or moderated conversation on AI, strategy, capital, or acquisitions.
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Feature Speaker
Featured session, conference headliner, or extended executive address.
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Fireside / Workshop
Fireside chat, executive workshop, or half-day on-site with the leadership team.
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Six talks. One throughline.
Every keynote pairs a hard-earned framework with a story the room won't forget. Custom formats on request.
01
AI Adoption for Owner-Operators
SMB conferences, chambers, franchise groups
A grounded playbook for owners who want AI leverage without a data-science team — the three workflows that pay for themselves in ninety days.
02
Bank-Ready in 90 Days
Founder cohorts, lender events, SBA programs
How to install the operating, legal, and financial architecture lenders and buyers actually reward — the BANKREADY® framework.
03
Buying Your Next Business
Investor forums, accelerators, family offices
Search, structure, and stand-up. A candid look at SMB acquisition — where the deals are, and where the traps hide.
04
The Post-Founder Company
Corporate retreats, executive summits
Building a business that runs — and grows — without you. Systems, seconds, and standards for the next chapter.
05
Capital, Credit & Confidence
Women- and minority-owner networks, banking events
Positioning your business for the room where the money is — credentials, credit posture, and the story that closes.
06
Strategy Under Pressure
University lectures, MBA programs
Case studies from two decades of turnarounds, exits, and rebuilds — decision-making when the runway is short.
Past Stages
Trusted by rooms of every size.
Houston Business JournalCW39KHOU 11San Jacinto CollegeTexas Southern UniversityPrairie View A&MBankers FairPush & Pour
On stage
The most useful ninety minutes any of our chapter presidents have spent this year. Practical, uncompromising, warm.
In the room
We finally have a strategy the whole leadership team can run — and defend. AI is no longer a slide, it's a system.
Booking
Request Jean' Austin (pronounced “Zhahn,” like the French/Creole) for your stage
Panelist, keynote, feature speaker, or workshop — share the details and budget below and the booking team will respond within two business days.