Presentation Description

Most business owners don’t have a content problem. They have a marketing problem.

They spend hours trying to figure out what to post, chasing trends, and worrying about algorithms, yet still struggle to see meaningful business results.

In this session, Zoe Naquin shares a strategy-first approach to marketing that helps business owners stop guessing and start making intentional marketing decisions. Attendees will learn how to create marketing that supports real business goals, focus their time where it matters most, and build a system that works with their business instead of becoming another full-time job.

Whether you sell products, provide services, or are building a personal brand, you’ll leave with practical strategies you can immediately apply to market your business with more confidence and clarity.

Speaker Bio

Zoe Naquin is the Founder & CEO of ZEN Marketing Co., a strategy-first marketing company that helps small businesses simplify their marketing and grow with intention.

Working with businesses across a wide range of industries, Zoe specializes in helping business owners move beyond simply creating content to building marketing strategies that support long-term business growth. Through social media management, email marketing, consulting, and strategic planning, she helps clients make smarter marketing decisions without the overwhelm.

Known for her practical, honest approach, Zoe has helped dozens of businesses strengthen their visibility, create sustainable marketing systems, and build stronger connections with their audiences.

Her mission is simple: help business owners stop guessing and start marketing with purpose.

Speaker Bio

Stephanie N. Mbelu is an operations consultant, real estate investor, Army veteran, speaker, and contributing author of Redefining Success Beyond the Grind. She is the founder of Doyenne Consulting, a boutique consulting firm that helps women entrepreneurs build businesses that create both wealth and breathing room.

Her work is rooted in a deeply held belief: when women have access to financial independence, strategic support, and operational stability, they have more power to make choices that change the trajectory of their lives, families, businesses, and communities.

Stephanie’s career began at the YWCA, where she worked 12-hour shifts in a domestic violence shelter. It was there that she saw firsthand how financial independence could become a pathway to safety, dignity, and freedom for women rebuilding their lives. That experience shaped how she thinks about business, money, leadership, and the importance of helping women create sustainable sources of income and opportunity.

She went on to serve in the United States Army Reserve and build a career spanning more than two decades of military and federal service. Through those experiences, Stephanie learned the value of resilience, disciplined leadership, standardization, flexibility, professionalism, and systems that can function under pressure. She also learned what it means to lead, execute, adapt, and get the work done in complex environments.

Today, Stephanie brings those lessons into her consulting, speaking, and advisory work. Through Doyenne Consulting, she partners with women-led and service-based businesses to strengthen their operations, clarify their strategy, improve their systems, and build teams that can support sustainable growth. Her work helps entrepreneurs move beyond hustle, urgency, and founder dependence toward a more stable way of leading and growing.

As a speaker, Stephanie brings a practical, grounded, and empowering perspective to conversations about entrepreneurship, leadership, systems, and success. She challenges women business owners to stop building companies that require constant exhaustion and instead create businesses anchored in clarity, stability, and freedom.

Her message is simple: a business should not just generate revenue. It should support the life, leadership, and legacy of the woman building it.

Presentation Description

Most women don’t leave corporate to work more. They leave for freedom, flexibility, and a business built on their own terms. So why do so many of them end up running a job harder than the one they left, holding everything together and wondering why every productivity fix they’ve tried still hasn’t bought back their time?

In this practical and engaging session, Stephanie N. Mbelu teaches audiences how to identify the gap between their vision and their operations. She reframes systems as more than tools, workflows, or automation. Systems are the structures that allow a business to operate in alignment with the owner’s values, work style, leadership role, and long-term goals.

The issue isn’t whether you have systems; it’s whether your systems were built around someone else’s playbook rather than how you actually want to work and live. This session walks business owners through the difference between work systems and wealth systems, shows them exactly where their business is misaligned with their values, and sends them home with a concrete starting point rather than a generic overhaul. It’s part keynote, part working session, grounded in 23 years of building systems that hold up under pressure in the US Army and 7 years of helping women owners do the same.