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Speaking · Workshops · Executive Conversations
Where financial clarity meets leadership action.
Practical, thought-provoking sessions for founders, business owners, executives, investors, professional communities, and family enterprises.
From Insight to ActionAudience-centered
Every session connectsStrategyFinance · Leadership · Execution
The speaking philosophy
Make complex decisions understandable—and useful.
The strongest business conversations connect numbers, strategy, people, and responsibility.
Dr. Frixmon Michael brings a cross-functional perspective shaped by financial leadership, entrepreneurship, acquisitions, strategic tax coordination, and executive coaching.
Sessions are designed around the audience and occasion, with a focus on practical frameworks, intelligent questions, and decisions leaders can take back to the business.
THE IDEA
A powerful talk should not end with applause. It should continue in the quality of the decisions that follow.
Signature themes
Conversations built around consequential business decisions.
Topics can be adapted to the audience’s experience, industry, event format, and strategic priorities.
From Revenue to Financial Independence
Why forming or growing a company is not the same as building a financially durable enterprise—and what owners must manage differently.
The CFO Mindset for Founders
How forecasting, cash visibility, unit economics, KPIs, and scenario thinking improve leadership decisions before a full-time CFO is required.
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
Buying a business as a path to entrepreneurship: search discipline, diligence, deal economics, transition risk, and the first 100 days.
Capital Should Serve the Strategy
How leaders can prepare for capital conversations without allowing fundraising, borrowing, or valuation expectations to replace business fundamentals.
Tax Strategy in the Business Conversation
Connecting structure, compensation, reinvestment, liquidity, succession, and tax coordination while respecting professional boundaries.
Leadership Under Financial Pressure
How decision quality, communication, accountability, and culture shape the organization when cash is constrained or change is accelerating.
Building a Transferable Enterprise
Moving beyond owner dependence through management systems, reliable reporting, governance, succession readiness, and durable value creation.
Family Enterprise, Governance & Legacy
Balancing business performance, family relationships, stewardship, succession, and coordinated advice across generations.
Engagement formats
The right conversation for the room.
Each engagement begins with audience, objective, time, format, and desired outcomes—not a one-size-fits-all presentation.
Discuss Your Event →Keynotes: focused ideas and practical frameworks for conferences, associations, and leadership events.
Executive workshops: interactive working sessions centered on a defined business or leadership challenge.
Panels and fireside conversations: thoughtful dialogue with founders, advisers, investors, and industry leaders.
Board and leadership sessions: private discussions shaped around strategy, finance, governance, or execution.
Podcasts and media: accessible conversations that translate complex business themes for a wider audience.
The process
A session designed around purpose.
Clear preparation creates a more relevant and useful experience for the host and audience.
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Discover
Clarify the event, audience, business context, objectives, format, timing, and practical considerations.
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Shape
Select the right theme, examples, questions, and level of technical detail for the audience.
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Deliver
Create an engaging conversation that connects perspective with practical business relevance.
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Extend
Where appropriate, provide discussion prompts, a workshop framework, or follow-up executive session.
Frequently asked questions
Planning a speaking engagement.
Can a topic be customized for our audience?+
Yes. The audience, event objective, industry context, available time, and desired level of interaction are considered during preparation.
Do you offer virtual sessions?+
Yes. Keynotes, panels, workshops, podcasts, and executive conversations can be delivered virtually when appropriate.
Can the session include a workshop or Q&A?+
Yes. Interactive exercises, moderated discussion, audience questions, or a focused leadership workshop can be incorporated into the format.
What information is needed for an invitation?+
Please share the event date, location or platform, audience, expected attendance, theme, format, time allocation, and intended outcome.
Are travel and commercial terms discussed separately?+
Yes. Availability, preparation, delivery format, travel, recording rights, and commercial terms are confirmed in writing for each engagement.
Start the conversation
Bring a practical financial and leadership perspective to your audience.
Share the event details, audience, topic, and desired outcome to begin.