Workshops & Speaking Engagements

Every cohort has founders with ideas. Fewer have founders with clarity.

Build Different sessions are designed to fill that gap — giving participants a practical framework for evaluating what they're building, identifying risk early, and making stronger decisions before those decisions become expensive to change.

These aren't lectures. They're working sessions built around the real challenges early-stage founders face — and the judgment they need to navigate them. They work equally well as workshops, guest lectures, webinars, or community seminars.

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Build Different: What to Build First

Before founders commit, they need to know if what they're building is actually worth it.

This session gives participants a practical framework for evaluating ideas before investing time, capital, and energy — so they can move forward with clarity and conviction instead of assumption and hope.

Participants leave knowing how to:

distinguish between an interesting idea and a viable business
identify what to simplify, cut, or reconsider before committing
make early decisions with more structure, clarity, and confidence

Build Different: How to Identify Risk Before it Becomes Expensive

Most early-stage risk doesn't announce itself. It builds quietly, often from decisions that felt reasonable at the time.

This session gives participants a framework for seeing risk before it becomes visible — and expensive. Because by the time most founders recognize a problem, they've already built around it.

Participants leave knowing how to:

recognize the three types of early-stage risk — structural, decision-based, and accumulated
understand how forward progress can quietly introduce hidden risk
apply a simple risk assessment at any stage of building

If you're looking for a session that gives your founders something they'll actually use, let's talk about whether this is the right fit for your program or community.

Who This is For

These sessions are designed for incubators, accelerators, and entrepreneurship programs — undergraduate, graduate, and executive — as well as founder communities, venture studios, and innovation or intrapreneurship teams.

Sessions run 60–90 minutes and can be customized for your audience, format, and program goals.

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