No keynote. No pitch. No theory. Bring your hardest question and get a straight answer from coaches who’ve sat in the seat.
Most founder events hand you a slide deck and squeeze questions into the last ten minutes, usually ending right before yours. Elevation flips the format. There’s no talk to sit through. You bring the question that’s keeping you up at night, and four coaches who have built, funded, scaled, and rescued real companies answer it live.
A stalled raise. A team pulling in different directions. A brand that no longer fits the company you’re becoming. The quiet suspicion that nothing you try is working. Whatever it is, bring it. You’ll leave with a next step, not a notebook full of frameworks.
This isn’t inspiration. It’s application. Expect a clear read on the real problem underneath your question, at least one concrete step you can take this week, and the kind of direct answer your investors, your team, and your friends can’t or won’t give you.
Founders and leaders at any stage who would rather have a hard, honest answer than a polished talk. If you’re preparing to raise, struggling to scale, rebuilding after a setback, or simply stuck, this room was built for you.
Send your question in advance. Early questions get priority on the floor.
Coaches answer live, and follow-up questions are encouraged.
Every question gets a practical answer, not a platitude.
We keep Elevation small enough that your question actually gets answered.
Reserve your spot →Each coach opens with the question they’ve answered a hundred times, then the floor is yours. Bring the one you can’t stop circling.
Greg has spent decades in the rooms where companies get made, from the earliest days of building businesses to coaching executives through raises, growth stages, pivots, and transitions at the top. He’s known for cutting through noise and helping leaders see what’s actually in front of them.
In this session, he’ll unpack why your brand and your leadership rise or stall together, and what it takes to lead the company you’re trying to become, not just the one you have today.
Travis has spent thirty years building companies. He started as a developer in the dotcom boom, managed at Ernst & Young, and led security and architecture inside the Fortune 50. He helped scale a training business to seven figures in monthly revenue and the #21 spot on the Inc. 500, and has helped founders raise more than $325 million.
His session breaks open a counterintuitive truth: your raise and your customer traction are not separate workstreams. Done right, each one accelerates the other.
Kristen brings more than 15 years of guiding leaders through growth and organizational change, with a career spanning global brands like 3M, Target, and Thomson Reuters alongside founder-led companies. She’s watched the same pattern repeat: it’s rarely strategy that stalls a scaling company. The real culprit is misalignment between the founder and the team.
Kristen will show you how to spot the misalignment you can’t see from the inside and translate your vision into direction your people can actually execute.
Tim knows stuck from the inside. Two layoffs in a single year pushed him to go out on his own, and he signed his first client within a month. He’s spent more than twenty years operating in B2B go-to-market, partnerships, and business development, including VP roles at Khoros and Gridbase, where his teams generated over $5M in revenue.
Founders juggle a dozen priorities at once, and sometimes nothing seems to work. Tim will dig into why we actually get stuck and how to build momentum instead of waiting for it. As he puts it: “You don’t think your way into momentum, you build it.”
Seats are limited and we keep the floor small on purpose. Reserve your spot and submit your question early. The ones that come in first get answered first.
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