AETHER / AI-MATCHED CAPITAL INTRODUCTIONSSAIL FORCE MARKETING / B2B REVENUE & OUTBOUNDIRIS VISION CAPITAL / DEAL FLOW & INVESTMENT FACILITATIONTEDxAshesiUniversity / TEDxLeidenUniversityAETHER / AI-MATCHED CAPITAL INTRODUCTIONSSAIL FORCE MARKETING / B2B REVENUE & OUTBOUNDIRIS VISION CAPITAL / DEAL FLOW & INVESTMENT FACILITATIONTEDxAshesiUniversity / TEDxLeidenUniversity
6-Month Flagship Transformation Program

The Compound

Break Free. Build Big. Invest Wise.

Six months. Four complete programs. Two platforms. Thirty-two weeks of integrated work across mindset, speaking, sales, and capital. Built for the founder, leader, or entrepreneur who refuses to fix one thing at a time.

6
Months
32
Weeks of Work
4
Full Programs
2
Platforms Included
12
Live Calls
What Is Inside

Four complete programs. One compounding system.

The Compound is not a bundle. Each program is taught in full, week by week, in sequence. Every skill you develop in month 1 amplifies what you do in month 4. By the time you finish, they are not four separate programs. They are one operating system.

Month 1 · Weeks 1 to 6

Be Transformed

Mindset, identity, and the internal rewire that makes everything else possible.

Month 2 · Weeks 7 to 12

Speak Your Way To The Top

Signature talk, stage presence, and a live profile on RealSpeakingGigs.

Month 3 · Weeks 13 to 18

Sell Your Way To The Top

Outbound system, AI tools, objection handling, and a predictable pipeline.

Month 4 · Weeks 19 to 24

Raise Right

Investor deck, data room, financial narrative, and AETHER platform access.

Who It Is For

This is for the ambitious ones who refuse to fix just one thing.

The Serious Founder

You are building a company and you know your internal game, your communication, your sales capability, and your capital strategy are all limiting factors at once. You cannot afford to work on them one at a time over four years.

The Coach or Consultant Going Full-Time

You are making the leap and you need to be internally transformed, bankable as a speaker, able to generate revenue consistently, and fundable if you choose to scale. Six months. Everything in one place.

The Leader Ready for the Next Level

You are already accomplished. But there is a ceiling and you can feel it. The Compound breaks through it: from within, from the stage, from your pipeline, and from your cap table.

The Real Problem

You know what you need to fix. All of it.

  • I am working on my mindset and my sales and my speaking at the same time but nothing is sticking because there is no system connecting them.
  • I could go deep on one area but the others fall behind. I feel like I am always robbing Peter to pay Paul.
  • I keep starting programs and not finishing them because context shifts and momentum breaks every time.
  • I want a coach who does not just teach one thing. I want someone who has built, sold, raised, and spoken at scale.
  • I am preparing to raise but my personal foundation is shaky and my sales pipeline is inconsistent. Investors see both.
  • I have done courses. I have done coaching. I want something that pulls all of it together and holds me accountable for six months straight.

The Compound exists because transformation in isolation does not compound. When your mindset sharpens your messaging, your messaging tightens your pitch, and your pitch wins clients and investors and rooms full of people at once, that is compounding. Six months of integrated work creates that.

What You Will Gain

Six months of compound transformation

A completely rewired internal operating system

Fear and self-doubt replaced by clarity, identity, and resilient decision-making under real pressure.

A polished signature talk and live speaker profile

Your talk delivered to a real audience, your RealSpeakingGigs profile live, and your first booking outreach in motion.

A functioning outbound sales machine

AI-powered sequences running, a weekly revenue rhythm active, and a pipeline that does not depend on your mood.

A completed fundraising package

Investor deck, data room, financial narrative, and AETHER profile live and matching with capital partners.

A unified personal brand and content strategy

One message pulling all four pillars in the same direction, with a content system that amplifies everything without more time from you.

A 90-day post-program momentum plan

A structured plan for months 7, 8, and 9 built in week 32 that keeps compounding what you built without starting over.

The Full Curriculum

Six months. Thirty-two weeks. Week by week.

Month 1 · FoundationMindset & Identity

Be Transformed

Before you build anything, you fix the foundation. Month 1 is the full Be Transformed program: six weeks of deep identity work, fear dismantling, limiting belief removal, and building the daily operating system of someone who actually follows through. Every skill you develop in months 2 through 6 will be shaped by who you become here.

Week 1

Who Are You, Really?

  • Separate who you are from who your environment told you to be
  • Map your core values and non-negotiables in full
  • Write your identity statement: one paragraph that anchors every decision you make
  • Complete the fear inventory: what you are actually afraid of, and why
Week 2

Fear, Self-Doubt, and Low Self-Esteem

  • Understand the neuroscience behind each of the three enemies and why they persist
  • Diagnose how each one shows up specifically in your life, your relationships, and your work
  • Trace the origin stories behind your most persistent limiting beliefs
  • Begin the pattern-interruption practice that breaks automatic negative responses
Week 3

Replacing What No Longer Serves You

  • NLP-based belief replacement techniques drawn from Steven's book Be Transformed
  • Reframe the five most damaging beliefs identified in week 2, one by one
  • Develop your personal affirmation and visualisation practice
  • Build the evidence log: daily proof that you are already more capable than you think
Week 4

Acting When It Is Hard

  • The framework for making clear decisions when fear is loudest
  • The difference between intuition and avoidance, and how to tell them apart in real time
  • Stress-testing: how to rehearse high-stakes situations before they happen
  • Live hot seat: participants bring real decisions to the group for coaching
Week 5

How You Show Up for Others

  • How unresolved fear and self-doubt affect your relationships and your leadership
  • The communication patterns of people who operate from security rather than fear
  • Assertiveness without aggression: saying what you mean and meaning what you say
  • Setting boundaries that protect your transformation without closing people out
Week 6

Building the Life That Holds

  • Design your personal daily operating system: morning, deep work, evening
  • Accountability architecture: who holds you responsible after the program ends
  • Build the 90-day continuation plan for months beyond the program
  • Graduation session: each participant shares one shift and one commitment out loud
Month 2 · VoiceSpeaking Mastery & RealSpeakingGigs

Speak Your Way To The Top

With your mindset reset, month 2 builds your voice. You will develop your signature talk from scratch, master stage presence, learn the business of speaking, and launch your live profile on RealSpeakingGigs. You will communicate with more authority in month 2 because month 1 removed the fear that used to mute you.

Week 7

Finding the Talk Only You Can Give

  • Define your speaker identity: the intersection of your story, your expertise, and your audience's need
  • Identify your core message: the one idea your entire speaking career is built around
  • Understand the three types of speaking engagements and which ones match your goals
  • Draft the premise of your signature talk: the seed of everything that follows
Week 8

Building a Talk That Moves People

  • The structure of a world-class keynote: opening hook, body framework, closing call to action
  • Storytelling mechanics: how to use personal stories to illustrate universal truths
  • The difference between informing and transforming an audience, and how to do the latter
  • Workshop: map your complete talk from first sentence to last word
Week 9

Commanding the Room

  • Body language: posture, movement, gestures, and what they communicate before you say a word
  • Vocal power: pace, pitch, volume, pause, and how to deploy each one deliberately
  • Eye contact and how to create genuine connection with audiences of any size
  • Live practice: each participant delivers 5 minutes of their talk for real-time group feedback
Week 10

Getting Booked and Getting Paid

  • How to write a speaker one-sheet that event organisers actually respond to
  • How to set and justify your speaking fee with confidence
  • How to pitch yourself to podcasts, conferences, corporate buyers, and universities
  • Set up your RealSpeakingGigs profile and send your first outreach during the session
Week 11

Making Your Speaking Work Beyond the Event

  • How to record, clip, and repurpose your talks into social media content that drives inbound
  • Build your simple content funnel: clip drives to landing page, landing page drives to program or booking
  • LinkedIn and Instagram strategy tailored specifically for speakers
  • Using podcast appearances as speaking auditions for larger opportunities
Week 12

Your First or Next Booking

  • Full talk delivery: each participant presents their complete signature talk to the cohort
  • Peer and coach feedback session focused on what lands and what to sharpen
  • Apply to 5 real speaking opportunities on RealSpeakingGigs live during the session
  • Build your 30-day post-month booking action plan
Month 3 · RevenueSales Systems & AI Tools

Sell Your Way To The Top

Month 3 is revenue. You will build a functioning outbound sales system, layer it with AI, and create the weekly operating rhythm that generates pipeline regardless of how motivated you feel. You sell better in month 3 because you communicate better after month 2, and communicate better because you think clearer after month 1.

Week 13

Removing the Stigma and Rebuilding Your Relationship With Selling

  • Reframe what selling actually is: the transfer of conviction, not manipulation
  • Identify your personal selling strengths and the specific fears that undermine your performance
  • Understand the difference between selling from scarcity and selling from a place of genuine service
  • Set your revenue target and reverse-engineer the pipeline numbers required to reach it
Week 14

Knowing Exactly What You Are Selling and Who Needs It Most

  • Define your offer with surgical precision: the problem, the solution, the outcome, and the proof
  • Build your ideal buyer profile using the real language your best prospects use about themselves
  • Identify where your ideal buyers spend time online and offline
  • Write your core value proposition in one sentence that lands without explanation
Week 15

Building the Machine That Generates Conversations

  • Cold email sequence structure: subject line, personalised opening, clear offer, one call to action
  • LinkedIn outreach cadence: connection requests, follow-ups, and conversation starters that work
  • Cold calling framework: opening, bridge to pain, pivot to discovery
  • Build your first complete outbound sequence end to end before the session ends
Week 16

Scaling What Works Without Scaling Your Hours

  • Where AI genuinely fits in the sales process and where human touch is non-negotiable
  • Configure an AI follow-up sequence that is automated but sounds personal
  • Introduction to AI calling agents: how they work, when to deploy them, and how to set them up
  • Build your hybrid system: human-led strategy, AI-powered execution
Week 17

Pricing, Objections, and the Conversation That Wins

  • How to present your price with complete confidence and without apology
  • The 10 most common objections and the exact language to handle each one
  • Negotiation principles: where to hold your position, where to flex, and how to protect your margin
  • Live roleplay: participants practice the full closing conversation with real-time feedback
Week 18

The Weekly System That Makes Results Predictable

  • Design your personal weekly sales operating system: prospecting days, follow-up rhythm, close cadence
  • CRM setup and pipeline stages that actually reflect how buyers behave, not how sellers hope
  • The Monday review: a 20-minute weekly ritual that keeps your pipeline honest and your energy focused
  • Build your 30-day post-month sales action plan with specific targets and checkpoints
Month 4 · CapitalFundraising Readiness & AETHER

Raise Right

Month 4 is capital readiness. You will build your investor deck, clean your data room, develop your financial narrative, map and approach your ideal investors, and go live on AETHER. Your pitch will be sharper because month 2 taught you how to communicate and month 3 taught you how to sell. Investors fund people as much as products. You are now both.

Week 19

Should You Raise, How Much, and From Whom

  • Assess your raise-readiness honestly across traction, team, TAM, and timing
  • Decide the right amount to raise and build the logical case for that exact number
  • Understand the meaningful differences between angel, VC, family office, and strategic capital
  • Map your use of funds in a way that tells a story about growth, not just where money goes
Week 20

Making Your Numbers Tell the Right Story

  • The difference between financial reporting and financial storytelling, and why it matters in every pitch
  • How to present projections that are honest, compelling, and defensible under tough questioning
  • Key metrics by stage: what sophisticated investors actually look at and what signals they read
  • Build your financial narrative document: assumptions, trajectory, and the logic that ties them together
Week 21

Slide by Slide, Built to Convert

  • The 12-slide structure that works across the widest range of investor conversations
  • Slide-by-slide workshop: problem, solution, market size, traction, team, financials, and the ask
  • The most common deck mistakes that kill conversations in the first 90 seconds
  • Peer review session: participants exchange decks and give structured, honest feedback
Week 22

What Investors Ask For and How to Have It Ready Before They Ask

  • The standard data room structure for pre-seed through Series A
  • What a clean, well-organised data room communicates about you as an operator
  • Documents to prepare now: cap table, incorporation documents, financials, IP assignments, key contracts
  • Set up your data room folder structure live during the session with everything labelled correctly
Week 23

Finding the Right People in the Right Order

  • Build your tiered investor target list: tier 1 for learning, tier 2 for conviction, tier 3 for closing
  • How to research mandate fit before you ever make contact with a single investor
  • The warm introduction playbook: who to ask, how to frame the ask, and what to send with the intro
  • Set up your AETHER profile and configure your matching preferences during the session
Week 24

Preparation, Delivery, and Follow-Up

  • How to structure a 30-minute investor meeting from the opening hello to the next concrete step
  • The hard questions every sophisticated investor asks and how to answer them without flinching
  • The follow-up sequence that keeps deal momentum alive after a meeting ends
  • Live pitch rehearsal: each participant pitches for 5 minutes with real-time coaching from Steven
Month 5 · IntegrationPersonal Brand Strategy

Connecting the Four Pillars

Month 5 is not a fifth program. It is the month where everything you built becomes one coherent system. You will develop your unified personal brand strategy, connect your speaking to your sales pipeline, position your thought leadership to attract investors and clients at the same time, and build the content infrastructure that makes all four pillars work together without requiring more hours from you.

Week 25

One Message Across Four Channels

  • Identify the single narrative thread that connects your mindset work, your stage presence, your sales, and your capital story
  • Articulate your unified personal brand position: who you are, who you serve, and why you specifically
  • Map how each of the four pillars reinforces and amplifies the others in practice
  • Write your master bio, your headline, and your one-liner, aligned across all platforms
Week 26

From Stage to Pipeline to Capital Table

  • Build your content funnel: a short clip from your talk drives to a landing page, landing page drives to program, consultation, or investor intro
  • Design the three to five content formats that you will publish consistently going forward
  • Repurpose your signature talk into a LinkedIn article, a short video, and a lead magnet
  • Map your content calendar for the next 30 days with one publish per day across channels
Week 27

Becoming the Name That Comes Up First

  • Identify the two or three topics where you will own the conversation in your space
  • Write your first long-form LinkedIn post built on your signature talk core message
  • Develop your point of view on a contested topic in your industry, in your own voice
  • Build your media and podcast outreach list: 20 shows and outlets that would amplify your brand now
Week 28

How Your Programs and Services Fit the Brand

  • Map your full offer suite from entry point to flagship against your four pillars
  • Identify which of your programs to lead with in which channel and for which audience segment
  • Build your referral and partnership strategy: who sends you the right clients and why they would
  • Prepare your integration summary: a single-page document showing how everything connects
Month 6 · LaunchExecution & Momentum

Going Public With What You Have Built

Month 6 is the public launch of the new version of you. You perform your signature talk to a live audience. You send your first investor campaign through AETHER. You activate your sales sequences with your sharpened positioning. You publish your first content under the unified brand. And you build the 90-day plan that keeps this compounding long after the program ends.

Week 29

Your Signature Talk to a Real Audience

  • Deliver your final, polished signature talk to the full cohort plus invited guests
  • Receive structured feedback from peers and a final round of coaching from Steven
  • Submit your talk to 3 speaking opportunities on RealSpeakingGigs with your updated speaker one-sheet
  • Record your talk for use as a content asset, demo reel, and pitch video
Week 30

AETHER and Direct Outreach in Motion

  • Send your first batch of investor outreach using the warm introduction playbook from month 4
  • Review your AETHER matches and initiate conversations with the highest-fit investors
  • Prepare your pitch meeting sequence for any first conversations that get booked
  • Define your raise timeline and the three to five milestones that will close your round
Week 31

Pipeline and Content Activated Together

  • Activate your outbound sales sequences with your updated positioning and offer clarity from month 5
  • Publish your first three pieces of long-form content under your unified brand voice
  • Send your first outreach to the podcast and media list you built in month 5
  • Review your sales pipeline and set your monthly target for the first 90 days post-program
Week 32

Compounding Without Us

  • Build your complete 90-day post-program action plan across all four pillars
  • Set your speaking, revenue, investor, and content targets for months 7, 8, and 9
  • Design your accountability structure for after the program: who checks you, how often, and what they check
  • Final graduation session: each participant presents their 90-day plan to the group and commits out loud
Platform Access

Two platforms included. Both running while you sleep.

RealSpeakingGigs

Included from Week 7

Your live speaker profile on the platform where event organisers come to find and book talent. Set up in month 2, week 10, and active for the rest of the program and beyond. As your talk improves and your reputation builds, your profile becomes a passive source of inbound speaking opportunities.

AETHER

Included from Week 23

AI-powered capital matchmaking. AETHER reads your company profile and matches it against investor mandates, stage preferences, sector focus, and geography. Set up in month 4, week 23, and live with active matches running throughout the remainder of the program and after it ends.

What You Receive

Everything included in The Compound

4 Complete Programs

Be Transformed, Speak Your Way To The Top, Sell Your Way To The Top, and Raise Right, delivered in full, in sequence, week by week.

32 Weekly Video Modules

One per week, 45 to 60 minutes each, released Monday morning. Structured to build directly on the week before.

12 Live Group Calls

Bi-weekly sessions with Steven across all six months. Hot seats, roleplay, peer reviews, and direct accountability in every call.

RealSpeakingGigs Access

Your live speaker profile from week 10. Event organisers find and contact you directly. Access continues after the program ends.

AETHER Access

Your company profile live from week 23, matched with investors in real time based on stage, sector, and mandate alignment.

4 Program Workbooks

One comprehensive PDF workbook per program with exercises, frameworks, reflection prompts, and tracking space.

All Resource Packs

Speaker one-sheet, outbound templates, AI setup guide, objection playbook, investor deck template, data room checklist, and more.

Integration and Launch Months

Months 5 and 6 are not available in any individual program. They exist only in The Compound and are where everything connects.

Lifetime Access to All Recordings

Every session, every module, every live call. Revisit any week any time you need a tool, a refresh, or a reminder of what you built.

How It Is Delivered

Structured. Live. Practical. Six months of real momentum.

Weekly Video Modules

Bi-weekly Live Calls

Workbooks and Templates

Private Community

Compare Your Options

The Compound vs. individual programs

What You GetIndividual ProgramsThe Compound
Be Transformed (Weeks 1 to 6)
Speak Your Way To The Top (Weeks 7 to 12)
Sell Your Way To The Top (Weeks 13 to 18)
Raise Right (Weeks 19 to 24)
RealSpeakingGigs Profile
AETHER Platform Access
Integration Month (Weeks 25 to 28)-
Launch Month (Weeks 29 to 32)-
Unified Personal Brand Strategy-
Content Funnel Architecture-
Live Talk Delivered to Real Audience-
Total4 separate programs across separate cohorts6 months, fully integrated, one cohort
Investment

Choose your path through The Compound

Group Coaching
$4,449

Runs twice per year · Up to 12 participants

Or 3 monthly payments of $1,483

  • All 4 programs, 32 weeks of curriculum
  • RealSpeakingGigs + AETHER included
  • Integration Month (Weeks 25 to 28)
  • Launch Month (Weeks 29 to 32)
  • 12 live group calls with Steven
  • Cohort peer community access
  • Lifetime access to all recordings
  • 3-month payment plan available

Next cohort dates on the calendar below. Join the waitlist if the cohort is full.

Most Personal
One on One
$6,449

Available year-round · Limited spots

Or 3 monthly payments of $2,150

  • All 4 programs, 32 weeks of curriculum
  • RealSpeakingGigs + AETHER included
  • Integration and Launch months included
  • Weekly 60-min private call with Steven
  • Direct WhatsApp access throughout
  • Fully customised sequence and pace
  • Start within 2 weeks of acceptance
  • 3-month payment plan available

Do not want to wait for the next group cohort? The one-on-one track starts when you are ready.

Cohort Calendar

Runs twice every year.

Cohorts begin on the third Monday of February and August. Places are limited and applications are reviewed in the order received.

Fall 2026
17 August 2026
In progress

This cohort has started. Apply for the next one.

Spring 2027
15 February 2027
Applications open
Fall 2027
16 August 2027
Upcoming
Cannot wait for the next cohort? Apply for one on one coaching instead. One on one starts whenever you are ready.
Common Questions

Frequently asked questions

Can I join if I have already completed one of the individual programs?

Yes. If you have completed one or more individual programs, your investment is credited toward The Compound fee. You pick up from where your completed program ends and join the remaining months, plus the integration and launch months which are exclusive to The Compound.

How much time does this require each week?

Plan for 3 to 5 hours per week: one module, the workbook, and a live call every two weeks. Implementation time such as running your outbound sequences or rehearsing your talk is built into the program structure, replacing scattered busywork rather than adding on top of it.

I am not a startup founder. Is fundraising relevant to me?

If you are not raising capital, the Raise Right month still teaches financial clarity, investor-level storytelling, and business valuation thinking that makes you sharper in every other conversation. The AETHER access is simply there if you ever need it. The other three months stand completely on their own.

What if I cannot attend a live call?

All live calls are recorded and shared within 24 hours. You can submit questions in advance and Steven addresses them on the call. Consistency across six months matters, but missing a call occasionally will not derail your progress.

How many people are in a Compound cohort?

Cohorts are kept deliberately small so every participant receives real attention from Steven across all six months. This is not a mass-enrollment course. It is a high-touch, high-accountability journey with a carefully selected group of peers.

Is there a payment plan?

Yes. A 3-month payment plan is available. Once your application is accepted, the team will walk you through the options and confirm an arrangement that works for your situation.

The Compound

Six months. Four programs. One operating system.