SPEAKING & TRAINING

Not Another Motivational Presentation.

Georges Hanna delivers contrarian ideas, clear frameworks, and practical operating methods that help leaders turn insight into better decisions and stronger execution.

Keynotes, executive retreats, and strategic summits globally.

Stage Board MatrixEXECUTION ARCHITECTURE
01

Contrarian Thinking

Challenge assumptions that keep businesses dependent, complicated, and difficult to scale.

02

Practical Frameworks

Turn complex leadership, business, and AI ideas into methods people can understand.

03

Guided Application

Help participants apply each framework to their own decisions and organizations.

Our Impact

12,000+

Business Owners & Professionals Reached

220+

Public Google Reviews

Higher Education

Faculty & Professional Learning

Business Organizations

Associations & Development Programs

SPEAKING THAT CHANGES OPERATIONS

Inspiration Without Installation
Disappears by Monday.

Most presentations provide interesting ideas, temporary motivation, more information, and few practical next steps.

Every Georges Hanna presentation is designed to help the audience recognize the real problem, reframe how they understand it, apply a clear framework, decide what must change, and identify the next operating action.

The Common Experience

  • Temporary excitement
  • General recommendations
  • Ideas without ownership
  • No operating consequence

The Georges Hanna Experience

  • A memorable mental model
  • A decision framework
  • Guided application
  • A clear next action

“The goal is not applause. The goal is a decision that survives after the event.”

01

THE FLAGSHIP PRESENTATION

Growth Is Not Ascension.

A business can increase revenue, employees, clients, and locations while becoming more fragile and dependent on the person who started it.

Owner • System • Asset • Enterprise

Keynote: 45–75 minutes
Workshop Extension: 60–120 minutes

BUILD A BUSINESS THAT CAN GROW BEYOND ITS OWNER

The Difference Between Building a Bigger Business
and Building a Stronger One.

Georges introduces the Business Ascension journey and the operating shifts required to reduce owner dependency.

  • 01 Why traditional growth can increase owner dependency
  • 02 How Execution Drift weakens otherwise capable companies
  • 03 Why systems fail when leadership and decisions remain unclear
  • 04 How to move from repeated intervention to Execution Certainty
  • 05 How S.A.P.E. connects systems, assets, profit, and enterprise value
  • 06 How AI extends capacity without replacing human responsibility

Business Owners Founders. Family Enterprises. Leadership Teams. Professional Firms Associations. Entrepreneurship Programs

Signature Topics

Choose the Business Conversation Your Audience Needs.

Each topic uses one of Georges’s original frameworks to produce a specific shift in how participants understand and address the problem.

01 · BUSINESS ASCENSION

Build a Business That Can Grow Beyond You

From Owner Company to Enterprise Company
Why owners need a stronger structure—not another growth tactic.

Audience outcome:
Identify the company’s stage and required transition.

02 · EXECUTION DRIFT

Why Strong Strategies Fail Between Intention and Action

Locate the Operating Breakdown
Expose repeated decisions, unclear ownership, broken standards, and dependence on intervention.

Audience outcome:
Find where leadership intention is being lost.

03 · THE S.A.P.E. METHOD

Systemize. Assetize. Profitize. Enterprise.

Sequence the Right Work
Strengthen the company underneath the growth before scaling more activity.

Audience outcome:
Determine which discipline must come next.

04 · BUSINESS COMPRESSION

Remove the Distance Between Intention and Results

Grow Capacity Through Subtraction
Remove unnecessary time, effort, friction, repetition, approvals, and delay.

Audience outcome:
Find one costly process to simplify.

05 · AI LEADERSHIP

Use AI Without Surrendering Judgment

AI Executes. AI Assists. Human Executes.
Assign AI by responsibility, consequence, ambiguity, trust, and accountability.

Audience outcome:
Decide where AI belongs—and where it does not.

06 · BUILDING AN AI TEAM

Stop Collecting Tools. Start Assigning Responsibilities.

Design Roles, Handoffs, and Oversight
Organize AI workers, assistants, thinkers, and agents around real business responsibilities.

Audience outcome:
Create an initial AI responsibility map.

07 · RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL

Stop Chasing Transactions. Build Strategic Access.

Trust Before Opportunity
Connect ideal accounts, partners, associations, media, and sponsors into one relationship engine.

Audience outcome:
Identify relationships capable of creating future contracts.

08 · CONTRACTS 100

Engineer the Entire Contract Lifecycle

From Target Account to Enterprise Value
Connect access, acquisition, delivery, protection, expansion, and intelligence.

Audience outcome:
See contracts as one integrated operating system.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT DEPTH

From One Powerful Idea to Organizational Application.

Select the format around the decision or capability the audience needs - not around a standard presentation template.

01

Keynotes

Introduce a contrarian idea, shift how the audience understands the problem, and create a clear call to action.

45-75 Minutes

02

Executive Briefings

Clarify a specific leadership, execution, business, or AI decision for senior leaders.

45-90 Minutes

03

Application Workshops

Apply a framework to real business decisions, processes, responsibilities, and opportunities.

90 Minutes-Full Day

04

Professional Training

Combine instruction, exercises, tools, prompts, frameworks, and guided implementation.

Half-Day-Multi-Session

05

Custom Programs

Adapt the experience around the audience’s industry, constraints, responsibilities, and outcomes.

Designed to Scope

THE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE

Every Session Connects
Three Layers.

Information explains. Application proves understanding. Installation changes performance.

01

The Framework

Participants receive a clear mental model for understanding the problem. They can explain what is happening.

02

The Application

Participants apply the framework to a real decision, process, responsibility, or opportunity. They can see where it applies.

03

The Installation

Participants identify the actions, standards, systems, and responsibilities required to change execution. They know what must happen next.

AUDIENCES

Built for People Responsible for
Real Decisions and Results.

Business Owners & Founders

Growth without increasing personal dependency.

Leadership & Management Teams

Translate strategy into reliable execution.

Universities & Colleges

Prepare faculty, staff, leaders, and students for responsible AI adoption.

Business Associations

Help members strengthen leadership, profitability, and market readiness.

Economic-Development Organizations

Support entrepreneurs, established businesses, and local economic growth.

Conferences & Industry Events

Deliver a strong point of view, memorable framework, and practical next step.

The Person Behind the Frameworks

Built From Experience.
Organized Into Methods.

Georges Hanna is the creator of Business Ascension and the S.A.P.E. Method.

His perspective was shaped through entrepreneurship, business education, professional training, economic-development work, and rebuilding after losing everything.

He turns lessons, patterns, failures, and business complexity into methods people can understand and use.

Contrarian

Challenges accepted ideas that produce weak results.

Clear

Translates complexity into memorable frameworks.

Practical

Connects every concept to an operating action.

Human

Keeps technology connected to trust and responsibility.

FOR EVENT ORGANIZERS

Clear Before the Event.
Useful During It. Actionable After It.

Before

Outcome alignment and audience context.

Promotion

Biography, headshot, session description, and learning objectives.

Customization

Relevant examples, exercises, and presentation direction.

During

Framework-led delivery and guided application.

Materials

Optional workbook, guide, prompts, or action plan.

After

Optional follow-up session or learning extension.

BOOKING PROCESS

Start With the Outcome
You Want for the Audience.

01 - Share the Event

Date, location, audience, attendance, and delivery format.

02 - Define the Result

What should the audience understand, decide, or do differently?

03 - Select the Experience

Choose the right topic, format, depth, and application.

04 - Confirm the Engagement

Finalize scope, timing, investment, travel, materials, and agreement.

05 - Prepare the Room

Align the final presentation with the audience and desired outcome.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Before You Invite Georges.

Essential logistical and structural details for event planners, executive hosts, and conference committees preparing for a high-impact engagement.

Can Georges customize a presentation?

Yes. The core frameworks remain consistent, while the examples, exercises, language, and application can be adapted to the audience and desired outcome.

Does Georges speak in person and virtually?

Yes. Keynotes, briefings, workshops, and training can be delivered in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format.

Can a keynote include a workshop?

Yes. A keynote can introduce the central idea, followed by a workshop where participants apply the framework.

Does Georges provide participant materials?

Depending on the engagement, materials may include a workbook, framework guide, exercises, prompts, or an action plan.

Can the event be recorded?

Recording, distribution, and reuse rights must be approved in advance and included in the engagement agreement.

What does it cost to book Georges?

The investment depends on the format, preparation, customization, session length, travel, materials, and licensing requirements. Submit an inquiry for a specific proposal.

Speaking & Training

Your Audience Has Enough Information. Give Them a Method They Can Use.

Invite Georges to challenge assumptions, clarify complex problems, and help your audience turn insight into better decisions and stronger execution.