THE MENTOR DINNER SERIES™ Conversations You Can't Have From the Audience.
What if one dinner could change the way you lead?
Some lessons are learned from a stage. The most meaningful ones are shared around a dinner table.
The Mentor Dinner Series™ was created for leaders who believe that the greatest insights don't always come from presentations or podcasts. They come from honest conversations with people who have lived extraordinary lives, overcome extraordinary challenges, and achieved extraordinary success.
These aren't keynote presentations, nor are they networking events.
They are intimate leadership experiences where accomplished professionals gather around one table to ask questions, exchange ideas, and learn directly from remarkable guests in an environment built for authentic conversation.
Every Mentor Dinner is intentionally curated to encourage meaningful dialogue, lasting relationships, and practical leadership insights you can take back to your business, your team, and your life.
Seats are limited by design, because the best conversations happen when everyone has a seat at the table.
FEATURED MENTOR DINNERS
A curated series of extraordinary leadership conversations.
Chad T. Jenkins
The Power of Connected Leadership
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Great businesses are rarely built alone.
Join entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author, and master connector Chad T. Jenkins for an intimate Mentor Dinner exploring how meaningful relationships, intentional collaboration, and strategic partnerships become the foundation for extraordinary growth.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
COMING THIS DECEMBER
Kenny Aronoff
Leading From the Back
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Spend an unforgettable evening with legendary drummer Kenny Aronoff as he shares the leadership principles behind decades of performing alongside some of music's biggest names.
Hollywood, California | Limited to 50 Seats
Tuesday, December 3, 2026
PAST MENTOR DINNERS
Dr. Jessica Kriegel
The Future of Workplace Culture
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The strongest organizations don't leave culture to chance. They build it intentionally.
Join workplace culture expert Jessica Kriegel and Dave Sanderson for an intimate Mentor Dinner exploring how today's leaders create organizations where trust, engagement, accountability, and performance become competitive advantages.
San Francisco, California
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Thursday, April 2, 2026 - Las Vegas, NV
Chris Voss
Negotiation
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About Chris Voss:
Chris Voss is the former lead international hostage negotiator for the FBI and the founder and CEO of The Black Swan Group, a negotiation consultancy that advises Fortune 500 companies and global leaders.
Drawing on decades of high-stakes experience, he teaches practical, psychology-driven negotiation strategies that help people achieve better outcomes in business and life.
Chris is the bestselling author of Never Split the Difference, widely regarded as one of the most influential books on negotiation in the world.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - Scottsdale, AZ
Debbie Allen
Brand Positioning & Sales Training
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About Debbie Allen:
What makes Debbie Allen's business mentoring unique is her "hands on" personalized attention to her clients. Integrity, follow-up and commitment to excellence are all core business values. She supports small business owners, entrepreneurs, speakers and coaches to create and build highly successful expert businesses.
Debbie has built and sold 6 million-dollar companies in diverse industries and has been an entrepreneur since the young age of 19. Today, she is known as The Market Positioning Expert by supporting her clients in developing brand domination around their expertise. Debbie works with small business owners, entrepreneurs, coaches, speakers and experts in many different niche markets.
Held: Thursday, October 23, 2025 - Fayetteville, AR
Valorie Kondos Field
UCLA National Championship Coach
Team Leadership
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About Valorie Kondos Field:
Valorie Kondos Field, aka Miss Val, as she's affectionately known by the scores of champion gymnasts she's coached over he career-has no background in gymnastics. She never tumbled, flipped, or played any type of organized sport. And yet she became a legendary hall of fame coach, through curiousity, creativity, attention to detail, and unwavering care for the overall well-being of her athletes.
Crediting her mentor, legendary basketball coach, John Wooden, and the Olympians and athletes with whom she's worked, Miss Val's success is due to her extraordinary leadership and mentorship of young student athletes, and the way in which she uses gymnastics as an avenue through which to teach valuable life lessons.
Monday, July 14, 2025 - San Diego, CA
David D'Arcangelo
Corporate Strategist/Restructuring/Advisor/Proven Revenue and Profit Producer for Public or Private Companies
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About David D'Arcangelo:
David has worked on assisting and advising micro-cap and small-cap public and private companies in the areas of corporate restructuring, investor & media relations, strategic management planning, capital formation, and mergers & acquisitions.
David's uncanny ability to uncover hidden assets, reposition products and services, repackage a story, create compelling marketing propositions that maximize sales and profits has captured the attention of respect of entrepreneurs, CEO's and share holders.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - Bentonville AR
Derek Champagne
Innovative Marketing
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About Derek Champagne:
CEO of The Artist Evolution—a marketing, design and practice management firm he founded in 2007—Derek helps businesses of all budgets plan and implement marketing strategies that work. He’s developed and managed brands and marketing campaigns in multiple industries from start ups to household names.
Derek has pioneered marketing strategies in the medical and dental communities, and has used his twenty-plus years of advertising, branding, and marketing experience to build a formidable business. He is a frequent guest lecturer at business conventions and college business marketing classes covering marketing and social media subject matter. He is endorsed by the ASDA as a trusted marketing resource, and he is an advisory board member and guest contributor for national publication, Dental Entrepreneur Magazine.