Ideas earned through experience—and built for action.
The best leadership talks do more than inspire for an hour. They give people a useful story, a practical framework, and a question they are still discussing the next day. Bud’s talks draw on nearly three decades of building companies, markets, leadership teams, and advanced technologies.
Three Careers. One Mission.
A founder-to-industry-builder-to-advisor story about how our highest-leverage work evolves—and why the mission can remain constant.
Bud’s Leverage Equation
How great people, important problems, and relentless curiosity compound into exceptional companies.
Building the Resilient CEO
Practical lessons for leading through ambiguity, isolation, setbacks, and moments when the old playbook stops working.
Innovation Gets the Headlines. Commercialization Changes the World.
Why technical brilliance is only the beginning—and what it takes to build the market around important technology.
Build Things That Change the World
An optimistic, clear-eyed invitation to leaders working on planet-changing, industry-shaping problems.
Formats
- Keynote
- Fireside conversation
- Board / executive forum
- Founder workshop
- Moderated industry discussion
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Talks combine practical stories, operating frameworks, and optimism—built for the audience in the room.