Speaking & media
Bring Karla to your company, retreat, podcast, or event.
She brings direct, practical leadership teaching to companies, leadership teams, founder communities, retreats, conferences, podcasts, and media conversations.
Former U.S. Marine Corps Officer·U.S. Naval Academy Graduate·Author of Be One of Zero·Most Influential Woman of Jacksonville, NC 2026
Formats
Ways to work with Karla
Company Keynotes
Leadership, accountability, priorities, ownership, resilience, and high-performance culture.
Leadership Retreats & Workshops
Practical sessions for leadership teams, executive groups, and founder communities.
Podcast & Interviews
Guest conversations on ambitious leadership, Be One of Zero, Founders Forge OS, founder burnout, resilience, focus, and identity.
Media & Expert Commentary
Founder leadership, burnout, work, teams, ownership, and the systems ambitious people need to stay in the work.
Signature talks
Speaking topics
Ambition Without Self-Sacrifice
How leaders pursue meaningful performance without normalizing exhaustion as the price of growth.
The Founders Forge OS: Leadership for the Next Stage
A practical six-pillar operating system for focus, standards, ownership, resilience, identity, and execution.
Hire Slow. Fire Fast. Protect Your A Players.
How leaders make clearer people decisions and protect high-performing teams.
Stop Rescuing. Start Building Ownership.
How leaders create accountability by clarifying responsibility and expectations.
Lead Your Time Before It Leads You
A practical approach to priorities, schedule, decisions, and standards.
Leading Through Pressure and Change
How to make sound decisions, communicate clearly, and lead with standards when conditions are not stable.
Need something built for your team?
Every organization has different leadership pressures, culture, and goals. Karla can tailor an existing keynote or workshop, or create a custom session for your company, retreat, leadership team, founder community, or event.
- Leadership capacity
- Sustainable ambition
- Ownership and accountability
- Priorities and focus
- Burnout and performance
- Change and difficult people decisions
Speaking engagements start at $10,000.
Custom keynotes, workshops, retreats, and multi-session leadership experiences begin at $15,000.
- Travel requirements are scoped with the engagement
- Podcast, media, and interview requests are reviewed separately based on the opportunity
Articles, podcasts, and conversations
Published articles
Stop Treating Yourself Like a Machine: Why Human-First Productivity Outperforms Hustle Culture
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The Six-Pillar Leadership Operating System That Prevents Founder Burnout
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The Identity Tax: What It Costs When Your Business Outgrows Your Leadership
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Why organizations book Karla
Founder workshops
Karla leads practical workshops that help founders step out of the day-to-day noise, think more clearly, and work through the leadership challenges that are actually holding the business back.
Speaking to a live audience
Karla brings direct, practical leadership conversations to the stage. Her talks are designed to challenge the way people think while giving them ideas and frameworks they can use long after the event ends.
Founder communities
Karla understands the pressure that comes with building and leading something of your own. She creates conversations that resonate with founders because they are grounded in the realities of growth, responsibility, and leadership.
Founder events
Some of the most valuable leadership work happens through honest conversation. Karla creates space for people to share what is really happening, learn from one another, and leave with greater clarity about what comes next.
Speaker credibility
A better leadership conversation for the room.
“Consistent, high level and quality content. Accountability and encouragement in community with others walking the same path.”
Bring a better leadership conversation into the room.
Your people do not need another generic motivational talk. They need practical leadership ideas they can use after the room clears.