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The 6 Things Only the CEO Can Do
Where Strategy Becomes Enterprise Value

A keynote for CEOs and First Teams who want to move from running the business to designing it—and build companies that scale, attract capital, and compound enterprise value.

Enterprise value doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from the CEO doing the right things. When the CEO operates as architect, not bottleneck, clarity replaces complexity, decisions accelerate, and the business becomes scalable without dependence on one person. This keynote reframes the CEO role from driving execution to designing leverage, from managing activity to architecting value, and from being indispensable to building an enterprise.

Leaders leave with clarity on where the CEO creates disproportionate enterprise value, a sharper understanding of First Team ownership, faster decision-making with less organizational drag, and a new lens on how boards, strategy, and structure compound value. The challenge for most CEOs isn’t effort. It’s focus. Enterprise value grows when strategy is clear, ownership is aligned, and leadership energy is directed toward the highest-leverage work.

The keynote introduces the six areas where only the CEO can create enterprise value:

1. Vision Clarity by designing a future the market understands and values.
2. First Team Alignment by turning leadership into a coordinated engine.
3. Stakeholder Confidence by building trust with boards and capital.
4. Strategic Alignment by structuring the business to scale.
5. Personal Effectiveness by protecting energy and decision quality.
6. Board Collaboration by moving from oversight to value creation.
7. 1.  

The CEO’s job is not to execute the strategy.
The CEO’s job is to design the system where execution becomes inevitable.

Bio

Karen Posey is an Enterprise Value Architect and CEO & Managing Partner of KP Strategies. She works with CEOs and Boards to turn strategy, leadership alignment, and execution into measurable enterprise value—growth that is scalable, financeable, and durable.

Often described as where CEO Whisperer meets Enterprise Value Architect, Karen helps leaders move from running the business to designing it. She brings clarity to complexity, accelerates decision velocity, and builds operating models that reduce dependency on the CEO while increasing enterprise value.

Her career spans launching four successful companies, leading a regional turnaround, advising Fortune 500 organizations, serving as VP of Strategy for a $12B healthcare payer, and acting as CEO of a MedTech company. Across every role, her strength has been translating vision into results.

Karen is a Vistage Certified Speaker and trusted advisor across Healthcare, MedTech, Digital Technology, and Defense Technology. Grounded in purpose and passionate about wellness, she believes sustainable performance starts with clarity, discipline, and personal effectiveness.

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Talent is at a premium, so organizations need to differentiate themselves more than ever before. The future professional doesn’t define expertise simply in college degrees and certifications. They have passions outside of work that enhance their ability to develop stronger levels of trust with colleagues and customers. Through hilarious stories and extensive research, this keynote encourages organizations to uncover their people’s passions in order to increase the lifetime value of every employee.

John Garrett — thought provoker, catalyst for change, and award-winning author — is on a mission to create better workplaces. What the two-time Emmy nominee may do best is champion the human side of professionals, consulting with organizations to develop more productive cultures while shining a light on their people’s rich lives outside of work. Delivering inspiring keynotes about his research and recording over 500 podcast episodes of What’s Your “And”? landed him on Accounting Today’s list of the top 100 most influential people in the profession.

John received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a letterman jacket as a trombone player in the marching band. He went on to pass the CPA exam and received his certified public accountant certificate while working at PwC and performing stand-up comedy as a hobby.

Since then, he’s been on stage over 2,000 times and tracks from his debut album, Outside the Box, can be heard on several channels on SiriusXM Satellite Radio and Pandora. He’s also been on The Bob & Tom Show, featured in the New York Times, opened for Louie Anderson at resort casinos, opened for the band Train, and has been invited to perform at several comedy festivals.

John currently lives in Denver and enjoys watching college football, going to concerts, and eating cookie dough ice cream — especially at the same time.