Chris’s passion is helping entrepreneurs achieve their vision by enabling them to get more of what they want from their businesses.

He does this by transforming the traditional business mindset into a more disciplined, execution-focused, military-inspired approach. Having spent nine years in military and civilian law enforcement roles—leading others at a young age—he draws on the best of his leadership training and real-world experience across both military and business environments.

He is currently authoring his first book, The Business Sergeant’s Field Manual: Military-Grade Business Execution Without All the Yelling and Push-Ups. In it, he outlines a practical framework for building high-performance teams that “re-enlist” every quarter by embracing a structured leadership style and implementing a simple, proven business operating system that keeps all aspects of the organization aligned.

At the core of his approach is EOS® (the Entrepreneurial Operating System), created by Gino Wickman. He considers EOS the “silver bullet” for business execution.

EOS is a comprehensive, proven system that integrates a holistic business model with a complete set of simple tools designed to align and synchronize every part of an organization—helping businesses achieve the results they’ve always wanted.

More than 5,000 companies have used EOS to take their organizations to the next level. Through EOS, leadership teams experience:

• Vision: Ensuring everyone in the organization is 100% aligned on where the company is going and how it will get there.
• Traction: Building discipline and accountability so teams consistently execute on that vision.
• Healthy: Creating a cohesive, functional leadership team—because great organizations require leaders who truly work well together.

• Background
• Military Service
• Agentic AI
• EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System
  • Vision
    • Values
    • Mission
    • Goals
    • Rocks
    • Long-term Issues
  • People
    • right people in the right seats
  • Data
    • What are your metrics? Weekly, Monthly, Yearly
  • Issues
    • 7 Day Action Items
  • Process
  • Traction
    • Bring the vision down
• GoExpand – AI

• Business Sargent
• LinkedIn
• GoExpand

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Tyler Wells is a veteran software engineer, entrepreneur, and podcast host with more than 25 years of experience building complex systems at scale. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of BrainGrid AI, where he leads innovation at the intersection of data, AI, and intelligent infrastructure.

Prior to BrainGrid, Tyler spent time at Twilio and Skype, contributing to high-growth tech environments. In 2021, he left Twilio to launch his own venture.

Tyler is a passionate investor, proud father, and husband who brings a practical, battle-tested perspective to conversations about AI, data strategy, engineering leadership, and entrepreneurship.

• Background
• Building with AI
• AI Product Management
• Specifications
• Get good at the tools
• Use AI against itself
• Ask it
• Scale yourself
• Use hooks for your specs

• LinkedIn
• Website

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Marissa is an executive coach and leadership development expert who coaches high-achieving senior leaders in need of external perspective. Her career spans academia, consulting, and corporate leadership, giving her a well-rounded point of view on how leaders are groomed and supported for the future. She has designed executive education programs at Thunderbird School of Global Management and the University of Arizona, built large-scale experiential and simulation-based leadership programs with BTS (a global consulting firm), and led enterprise-wide talent and leadership strategies as Director of Global Leadership Development at Vanguard and Visa.

Through her firm, mFluence Coaching & Consulting, Marissa partners with leaders to translate insight into action—helping them adopt new mindsets, shift behaviors, and achieve measurable results in both their professional and personal lives. She measures success by her clients’ breakthroughs: the “aha” moments that lead to lasting change.

What sets Marissa apart is her ability to bring three lenses to every engagement: academic rigor (for proven, evidence-based science), external consulting expertise, and firsthand corporate experience developing senior leaders. She understands leadership theory and how it works in real organizational life when the rubber meets the road.

• Background
• Leadership
• Emotional Intelligence
• What Coaches don’t do
• What Coaches do
• EQ Assessments
• Happiness
• Improving your EQ
• Self-Awareness

• LinkedIn
• Website

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