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FROM STAGE TO PAGE: How to Stand Out as a Thought Leader in the Era of AI
A two-day exclusive workshop for experts, speakers, and authors ready to turn their ideas into income and legacy.
Presented by
October 21 & 22, 2025 | New York City
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FROM STAGE TO PAGE:
How to Stand Out as a Thought Leader in the Era of AI
A two-day exclusive workshop for experts, speakers, and authors ready to turn their ideas into income and legacy.
Presented by
October 21 & 22, 2025 | New York City
Where Thought Leaders Are Made
The FALL THOUGHT LEADERSHIP FORUM is your backstage pass into the real world of influence! This is where books and stages open doors that social media never will.
This coming October 21st & 22nd, my team and I are gathering the next generation of thought leaders to reveal the exact frameworks that convert ideas into authority, credibility, and consistent cashflow.
And yes, we’re doing it in real life ;)
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What’s Really Happening Out There…
Because with just a couple of hours on ChatGPT, someone who’s never done the work can spit out ideas that look just as good as the ones you’ve spent years perfecting.
Worse, when the marketplace can’t tell the difference… You’re the one who pays the price.
Right now, AI is making average people look smart.
Meanwhile, the very people who should be really leading are struggling to be heard and paid for their insights.
And that should terrify you.
Lack of Community
Networking events are full of wannabes. Online communities are echo chambers of platitudes. You're surrounded by people who mistake activity for achievement. Where are the serious players who actually want to build something real?
Wasted Brilliance
You promised yourself you’d write a book, yet the draft has been stuck in your laptop for years. Your book sits on Amazon with 12 sales. Your speaking gigs pay peanuts. Your decades of knowledge are locked away while influencers with zero credentials make millions. You have intellectual gold, but no one's buying.
Authority Crisis
Every wannabe with a smartphone calls themselves a thought leader. The space is polluted with fake gurus peddling templates and AI prompts. You're drowning in a sea of mediocrity while real experts get ignored.
Sales Instability
Your income swings from hero to zero. Prospects ghost you. Deals die. You're tired of explaining why you're worth it to people who "aren't ready." Each rejection chips away at your confidence, making you question whether you're cut out for this business at all.
Ever catch yourself in this loop?
While the fakes get rich, you're still explaining your value to people who will never get it.
It's time to change that.
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The difference between where you are now and where you want to be is a book and a stage. That's it. That's literally it.
Consistent Revenue Streams: Book deals that pay advances in the hundreds of thousands. Brand partnerships where they're grateful you said yes.
Premium Positioning Power: Be the expert everyone else references. Get quoted in major publications.
Legacy Wealth: Your ideas, permanently preserved in books, generating royalties while you sleep. Your frameworks, licensed and taught by others. Your name, synonymous with your industry for decades to come.
The Right Rooms: Access to private dinners where million-dollar partnerships are born. Conversations with decision-makers who control budgets you didn't know existed. Networks where a casual coffee leads to life-changing opportunities.
Intellectual Peer Community: Finally, people who get both sides of your brain – the one that thinks big thoughts and the one that knows how to monetize them. No more apologizing for your ambition.
What financial freedom through thought leadership actually looks like
The path to real money is canonizing your body of work through the two things that separate the players from the pretenders: a published book and a proven stage presence.
And the Thought Leadership FORUM is where smart experts gather to turn their expertise into actual wealth.
We’ll show you how to build your BRAND, BUSINESS, & BOOK using our Thought Leadership Success Stack Framework:
Own the Stage. Own the Page.
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Venue Name
Private Meeting Room at St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran Church
Address: 315 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011
Location
Okay, you’re going to love this – The location for Thought Leadership FORUM is at the coolest venue ever! I've booked St. Paul's German Lutheran Church (yup, a church!) and found this hidden gem of a meeting space inside. It has the perfect ambiance and acoustics for the deep work we do and feels so on-brand for TLC.
For two powerful days, you’ll connect with industry insiders, map out your next-stage authority strategy, and discover how to turn thought leadership into sustainable revenue. Are you ready?
The Relevance Reset: Who gets to be relevant as a speaker, author, and expert in 2025 and beyond
From Skills to Mastery in the Age of AI: Why expertise alone isn't enough and how to canonize your ideas so they can't be ignored
The TLSS Diagnostic: Discover exactly where you stack up as a thought leader today and what's missing to reach the next level
Thought Leadership Panel: Real talk from bestselling authors, Publishers, Publicity and Media experts on what you really need to know to write, publish, market, and monetize your book
OCT 21
Beyond the Book: The business model behind authorship that creates sustainable income streams
AI-Proof Your Authority: How to build credibility with platforms that can't be faked or replicated
The Stage-to-Page Pipeline: Creating your own Million Dollar Events that generate 6-figures
Your Personalized Strategic Playbook: Walk away with a clear, actionable plan for your next move from stage to page
OCT 22
10AM - 5PM,
DOORS OPEN AT 9:30AM
Agenda
Day 1: The Foundation of Modern Authority
Day 2: The Business of Authority
6PM - 8PM,
RESERVATION REQUIRED!
10AM - 4PM,
DOORS OPEN AT 9:30AM
⭐ EXCLUSIVE EVENT: THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SALON
An intimate, invite-only salon uniting authors, executives, and innovators to explore how underrepresentation in publishing and leadership threatens to shape the future of knowledge — and what it will take to change the canon.
Featuring Dorie Clark, Dr. Brent Ridge, and Jen Kem
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
Throughout the FORUM:
YES! I WANT MY PLAYBOOK
Prestige by Association: Raise your proximity to power by being in the room with established authors, respected speakers, and recognized leaders
Peer Network Expansion: Connect with other high-caliber thought leaders actively writing books, landing stages, and building movements
Industry Expert Access: Meet and hire the professionals who can help you write your book, build your brand, and scale your business.
Who is this for?
An Academic or Expert (professors, PhDs, consultants) with intellectual capital who wants to translate it into
public thought leadership and business opportunities
Someone who believes in expertise over hype and substance over surface
A Speaker ready to turn your talks into publishing deals and higher-fee opportunities
An Author (self-published, hybrid, traditionally published) who hasn't fully leveraged your book(s) into income streams or platform growth
A Successful Entrepreneur
or Executive (6-7 figure business owners, C-suite professionals) who wants credibility and recognition that transcends your current circles
ACADEMIC/EXPERT
ANYONE WHO...
SPEAKER
AUTHOR
ENTREPRENEUR/EXEC
Authority-Driven Business Model
What you'll experience at the FORUM
Your Personal Brand is your biggest competitive advantage in 2025. We'll show you the positioning strategies that make publishers fight over you and event organizers pay premium rates.
Personal Branding
& Positioning
Stage Mastery & Speaking
Turn more expertise into paying opportunities. We'll share with you our proven conversion systems and offer structures that generate authority-driven revenue streams.
The TLSS Framework
Nail your authority positioning and create a thought leadership strategy that stands out and builds serious wealth in the age of AI.
Your speaking blueprint for commanding stages and premium fees. We'll reveal our best-performing presentation frameworks and why they consistently book six-figure speaking opportunities.
Bestselling Book Strategy
The business of books revealed. We'll walk you through our proven publishing pathways and share the strategies that turn authorship into authority and royalties into recurring revenue.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEED
Think of it like the ultimate launch campaign, but the product is YOU.
From diagnosing where you stand today, to filling the gaps in your business, to leaving with a personalized Thought Leadership Playbook you can act on immediately.
designed like a comprehensive authority-building campaign
Our Speakers
CEO + Editor-in-Chief of Bella Media + Co.
VANESSA COPPES
Journalist & Author
ELAINE POFELDT
Publicist for Bestselling Authors, Speakers and Thought Leaders, CEO of Nardi Media
Ashley Bernardi
Top Literary Agents,
High Line Literary Collective
KIM PEREL + Margaret Danko
So when I say books and stages are the ultimate currency of thought leadership, you best believe it’s because the biggest names in business have trusted me to make it true.
But here's what makes me different from every other "personal brand guru" taking your money…
I'm not some former corporate dropout who discovered entrepreneurship last year and now sells courses about it. I'm not teaching you what I learned from someone else's program.
I’m a seasoned chicken in this industry and I'm showing you the exact playbook I've used to build real wealth for real leaders who actually move culture and command respect.
While other "experts" are busy creating content about thought leadership, I'm busy creating actual thought leaders who get actual results that show up in their actual bank accounts.
Hosted by Jen Kem
You want someone who's done it, not someone who's teaching it because they couldn't do it.
Hey! I’m Jen Kem, an award-winning Brand Architect, a Fortune 500 consultant, and the founder of the Thought Leadership Collective.
I began my career more than two decades ago creating million-dollar personal brands for cultural icons such as Oprah, Steve Harvey, Rachel Rodgers, and Nicole Walters, quickly becoming the strategic secret weapon behind some of the most recognizable leaders in business and media.
My frameworks have also shaped global companies such as Netflix, Doordash, Microsoft, Verizon, and Coca-Cola (to name a few).
I’m also the National Bestselling author of Unicorn Team, an innovation playbook for building successful brands and effective teams, which has sold over 25k+ copies since its publication last February 2025.
There’s no authority like SPEAKER & AUTHOR authority.
Stop being the best-kept secret in your industry. Start being the highest-paid expert in your field.
SAVE MY SEAT
Your authority is imaginary if it's not profitable.
Your insights are worthless if they're not published.
Your expertise expires if no one knows about it.
- 2-Day FORUM Access
- All Workshop Materials
- Strategic Playbook
- TLC Resource Pack
- Invitation to VIP Networking
- Swag Bag
October 21 & 22, 2025 | New York City
SOLD OUT!
$597 USD
Your ticket includes:
EXCLUSIVE BONUS!
The Missing Manuscript: Closing the Gender Gap in Thought Leadership
Moderated by Vanessa Cornell
SOLD OUT!
When you grab your ticket for the Thought Leadership FORUM, you’ll receive a private invitation for an intimate gathering in Midtown Manhattan:
CEO of Master Brand InstituteBestselling Author: Unicorn Team (Penguin/HH), Forbes Top Brand Strategist
Co-Founder Beekman 1802 Skin Health Brand and Bestselling Co-Author: G.O.A.T. Wisdom (Harvard Business Review Press)
3x Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World, Bestselling Author: The Long Game (Harvard Business Review Press)
Jen Kem
Dr.Brent Ridge
Dorie Clark
Hosted in partnership with
Executive Coach, Leadership Trainer, Bestselling Author of The Ambition Trap: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living (Penguin/The Open Field)
AMINA ALTAI
From book pricing and recognition disparities to the reality that women’s voices risk being under-indexed in AI training data, this salon will explore why the issue is urgent and how we can collectively build the future we want.
Get this EXCLUSIVE BONUS when you register for the Thought Leadership FORUM today!
Join bestselling authors, executives, and innovators for a powerful conversation on how underrepresentation in publishing and leadership is shaping the future of knowledge. And what it will take to rewrite the canon.
Featured authors include:
Yes! This event is intentionally designed for face-to-face connection and strategic collaboration with Jen, her team and select Thought Leadership Collective members.
Yes! We’ve curated a lineup of amazing guest speakers who bring real-world expertise in authorship, speaking, and thought leadership. Full details will be announced soon. and trust us, you’ll want to be in the room when they take the stage.
Not at all. The FORUM is for anyone who wants to use books and stages as the ultimate authority-building tools. If you’re a coach, consultant, entrepreneur, or executive who’s ready to stop trading time for money and start building lasting influence, this event is for you.
If the idea of a book has been sitting in your head (or on your shelf) and you know it could unlock the next level of your authority, you belong here. The FORUM will show you how to move from “thinking about it” to building a personal brand and business model that makes your ideas profitable.
No. The Fall Thought Leadership FORUM is a live, in-person experience only.
Where is the FORUM being held?
Private Meeting Room at St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran Church
Address: 315 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011
Address: 315 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011
Day 1: The Foundation of Modern Authority - 10AM to 4PM, Doors open at 9:30AM
Day 2: The Business of Authority - 10AM to 5PM, Doors open at 9:30AM
Day 2: The Business of Authority - 10AM to 5PM, Doors open at 9:30AM