Dream Team Auction Resources 2026

Jim Harris Sept. 11 2026

Show Me the Money: Turning AI Into Business Results
Opening session with Jim Harris and the Cigar PEG AI Workshop faculty

How can AI help you win more business, increase your value to clients and create new revenue streams? That question sets the direction for this opening session—and the workshop series ahead.

Jim Harris leads an interactive discussion about applying AI to the business of speaking, training and consulting. Through demonstrations, participant questions and examples from the faculty’s businesses, the session explores opportunities to improve prospecting, strengthen your online presence, reduce production costs and turn your expertise into additional products and services.

Key takeaways from the session:

Connect AI to a business outcome. Give each project a clear purpose: attracting qualified prospects, improving conversions, saving time or increasing client value.
Expand what clients can buy from you. Explore how AI advisors, audiobooks, training programs and ongoing consulting can extend your impact beyond a keynote.
Build credibility before the sales conversation. Your website and content help prospective clients assess your expertise when they research you.
Make more use of your existing knowledge. Books, presentations and recordings can become material for new content, audience resources and interactive experiences.
Improve results through iteration. Clear instructions, relevant context and follow-up refinements help you get more useful outputs from AI.
Finish and measure. Complete one useful project, put it into practice and evaluate its results before moving to the next idea.

Examples discussed include AI-assisted website creation, customized video introductions, voice cloning, content repurposing and targeted speaking-opportunity research.

Before the next session: Read the shared Talkadot report on the Million Dollar Speaker Group and consider what an additional revenue stream could look like in your business.

Aidan Crawford Sept. 18 2026

The AI Speaking Engine

The AI Speaking Engine: Turning Expertise Into Paid Opportunities
Workshop session with Aidan Crawford

How can you use AI to find the right speaking opportunities, approach decision-makers with relevant proposals and generate business beyond the stage? This session connects those steps into a practical, repeatable workflow.

Aidan Crawford demonstrates how clear positioning and useful background information help AI become a more effective prospecting partner. Through participant exercises, live demonstrations and examples from his own outreach, the session explores how to research events, customize proposals, establish a daily prospecting routine and extend your expertise into additional services.

Key takeaways from the session:

Start with the audience, problem and outcome. Explain who you help, what you help them address and what they gain. Your positioning statement should communicate your value; your biography provides the supporting credentials.
Give AI the context it needs. Create an “AI One-Sheet”—a reference document containing your positioning, biography, programs, relevant links and supporting content. Despite the name, it can be longer than one page.
Prioritize the opportunities that fit. Use AI to filter events by audience, topic, location and potential compensation. Focus on relevant opportunities with identifiable decision-makers, and verify the research before acting.
Make your outreach specific. Connect your expertise to the event’s audience and challenges. Open a conversation about fit, budget and requirements before investing time in a full proposal.
Build a consistent prospecting routine. Scheduled searches can bring opportunities to your inbox. Aim for a manageable daily target, such as five relevant contacts, supported by personalized emails, phone calls and follow-up.
Create value beyond the keynote. Pre-event workshops, coaching, consulting and AI advisors can help organizers serve their audiences while creating additional business opportunities for you.

Examples demonstrated include AI StageFinder profile optimization, customized outreach campaigns, scheduled ChatGPT searches and Always-On Advisor experiences that answer questions using a speaker’s expertise.

Before the next session: Refine your positioning, complete your AI StageFinder profile and assemble your AI One-Sheet. Use it to customize the shared Event Opportunity Finder prompt, and send Aidan a note when your profile is ready for his review.

Ford Saeks Sept. 25 2026

Turning AI Into Leads, Sales and Business Growth

Workshop session with Ford Saeks

How can you use AI to attract better prospects, improve your marketing and turn more interest into business? This session tackles those questions through live coaching and practical reviews of participants’ websites and sales strategies.

Ford Saeks leads an interactive series of hot seats focused on the business challenges facing speakers, trainers and consultants. Through website critiques, prospecting examples and recommendations for AI-assisted marketing, the session explores how to communicate your value, build stronger relationships with buyers and create repeatable systems that support growth.

Key takeaways from the session:

Start with the buyer’s problem. Make it clear who you help, what challenges they face and what results you deliver. Use AI to research your audience’s questions and develop messaging that reflects their language.
Make your website easier to act on. Clear headlines, relevant social proof, visible demonstration videos and specific calls to action help visitors understand your value. Simplify inquiry forms and make contact information easy to find.
Build relationships through purposeful prospecting. A podcast can create conversations with decision-makers you want to work with. Interviewing potential clients helps you understand their challenges, demonstrate your expertise and identify opportunities to help.
Give value before asking for the sale. Use helpful emails, short videos, checklists and live sessions to build trust. Ford recommends a nurture sequence weighted toward useful advice, with approximately 80% value and 20% promotional messages.
Own the playbook behind your AI workflows. Document recurring tasks, instructions and processes so you can reuse them across tools. Provide clear context, refine the first response and verify statistics and sources before publishing.
Test, track, modify and repeat what works. Measure website inquiries, conversions, customer acquisition costs and customer value. Use those results to decide which marketing activities deserve more attention.

Examples discussed include AI-assisted email nurture campaigns, video sales letters, prospect-focused podcasts, YouTube thumbnail and description optimization, lead magnets and conference landing-page improvements.

Before the next session:

Review your website from the perspective of an ideal buyer. Identify one change that makes your value clearer or contacting you easier, then implement it. Use AI to outline a useful lead magnet or nurture sequence addressing a specific client challenge, and document the process as a reusable playbook.

Susan Frew Oct. 2 2026

Building Your AI Team: Turning Repetitive Work Into Repeatable Systems

Workshop session with Susan Frew

How can you use AI agents to reduce administrative work, follow up on opportunities and make more time for the activities that grow your business? This session explores how to build an AI team around your actual workflows, with clear responsibilities and human oversight.

Susan Frew demonstrates the agent system she is developing for her speaking and training business. Through live examples, participant questions and a step-by-step planning exercise, the session explores how AI can support inbox management, prospect research, presentation customization, proposals and financial reporting. Susan also shares the testing, refinement and coordination required to make these systems useful.

Key takeaways from the session:

Start with one useful, manageable task. Choose recurring work that takes time, follows clear steps and produces results you can evaluate. Begin with a task where mistakes are easy to correct before expanding your automation.
Give each agent a clear job description. Define its purpose, responsibilities, information sources, tools and approval requirements. Provide real examples of successful work so it understands what a good result looks like.
Keep your instructions and knowledge organized. Susan uses Claude projects and an Obsidian “second brain” to organize workflows, reference materials and agent responsibilities. A central repository helps her track activity and reduce duplication across tools.
Keep human approval in the workflow. Establish what agents can do independently and what requires your review. Susan’s inbox agent prepares drafts for approval, while her financial agent reports on information in her accounting system without accessing her bank account.
Use your existing information to personalize the work. Discovery-call transcripts, audience surveys, past presentations and previous emails provide context for tailored proposals, customized decks and responses that reflect your voice.
Monitor, refine and maintain the system. Review completed work, failed tasks and outstanding approvals. Start with a limited rollout, watch usage costs and set aside time to test connections and update instructions as your needs and tools change.

Examples demonstrated include daily agent briefings, identifying overlooked newsletter subscribers and promising prospects in a CRM, adapting keynote decks using audience surveys, repurposing newsletters into articles and creating personalized proposal pages. Susan also outlines a booking workflow connecting an intake form to CRM records, contracts and invoices.

Before the next session:

Choose one recurring task to automate and use the shared worksheet to map its steps. Gather two or three examples, identify the information and tools the agent will need, and define what requires your approval. Build and test a first version, review its output and refine the instructions before adding more tasks.

Gina Carr Oct. 9 2026

Presenter: Gina Carr, MBA

Session: AI-Powered Content Marketing: Create Once, Amplify Everywhere

Overview

In this practical, interactive workshop, Gina Carr demonstrates how professional speakers, authors, consultants, and entrepreneurs can use artificial intelligence to build a more efficient and effective content marketing system.

Drawing on her work with clients, Gina reveals how to transform a single piece of content into a coordinated marketing campaign across multiple platforms. Participants learn how to use AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to streamline content creation, increase visibility, attract ideal clients, and generate revenue.

Main Topics Covered

Positioning and Clarity: Identify your ideal audience, the problem you solve, and how to become the recognized authority in your niche.
The Revenue Pyramid: Structure offers from free content and entry-level products to premium coaching, consulting, and speaking engagements.
Anchor Content Strategy: Create one substantial piece of content, such as a video, interview, article, or podcast, and repurpose it across multiple channels.
AI-Powered Content Workflows: Use Claude Projects and detailed instructions to generate platform-specific content for LinkedIn, Substack, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and email.
Content Distribution and Optimization: Use YouTube thumbnail testing, Substack Notes, compelling headlines, and engagement analytics to improve performance.
Human Oversight and Quality Control: Train AI to maintain your voice, verify claims, follow brand guidelines, and identify potentially problematic content before publication.

Strategic Advice

Clarity Before Content: Define exactly whom you serve and what problem you solve before investing time in content creation.
Create Once, Amplify Everywhere: Stop treating every platform as a separate content creation project. Build a repeatable system around one strong piece of anchor content.
Focus Your Attention: Distribute content across multiple platforms, but concentrate your personal engagement on the channel where your ideal clients are most active.
Train AI as a Marketing Assistant: Build reusable project instructions so AI understands your audience, positioning, voice, offers, and content requirements.
Connect Content to Revenue: Every marketing activity should support a logical next step, whether joining your email list, downloading a resource, attending a webinar, or purchasing a premium service.
Measure and Improve: Test headlines, thumbnails, and calls to action. Use actual audience behaviour rather than assumptions to guide future content.

Action Items

Define Your Positioning: Write a clear statement identifying your ideal client, their primary problem, and the outcome you deliver.
Choose Your Anchor Content: Select one existing video, presentation, podcast, or article that can become the foundation of a content campaign.
Create an AI Marketing Project: Set up a Claude Project or equivalent, including your brand voice, target audience, offers, and content guidelines.
Build a Repurposing Workflow: Use AI to transform your anchor content into email copy, social posts, newsletter articles, video descriptions, and promotional material.
Select Your Primary Channel: Identify the platform most likely to reach your ideal clients and prioritize consistent publishing and engagement there.
Test and Optimize: Experiment with alternative titles, thumbnails, and calls to action. Track which versions generate the strongest response.
Establish a Conversion Path: Ensure your content directs prospects toward a relevant lead magnet, email subscription, consultation, or paid offer.

Terry Brock Oct. 16 2026

James Feldman Oct. 23 2026

Resources

Jim Harris Resources

Homework

Please re-read the Insights from 61 Million Dollar Speaker Group members of NSA via Talkadot

Requested Actions

1) Watch Jim’s AI Revolution video — at least 5 minutes of it and comment on it

2) Subscribe to Jim’s substack

Two Report Attachments

1) Participant Objectives/ Expectations

2) Insights from 61 Million Dollar Speaker Group members of NSA via Talkadot

Four Links YouTube video with 5 million views The AI Revolution with Jim Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyTJVWyQJI

The Age of Fakes! How AI Abuse, Fake News, & Deepfakes Threaten Business and Society https://www.amazon.com/Age-Fakes-Deepfakes-Threaten-Business/dp/3982801001/ref=sr_1_1

Click on Read sample under the cover image to get Jim’s chapter for FREE

Personalized Tutoring: The Most Powerful Leaning Tools in Human History

https://www.jimharris.com/articles/the-greatest-learning-revolution

My new Substack — thanks to Gina’s recommendation: https://substack.com/@jimharrisaispeaker

Aidan Crawford Resources

The AI Speaking Engine with Aidan Crawford

Homework

Refine your positioning statement. Use this starting point: “I help [specific audience] address [specific problem] so they can [meaningful outcome].”
Create your AI One-Sheet. Bring together your positioning, biography, speaking programs, website links and supporting expertise in one reference document. It does not need to fit on one page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z0Hj4ReAKs
Customize the Event Opportunity Finder prompt. Use your AI One-Sheet to adapt the shared prompt to your expertise, preferred audiences and target locations.

Requested Actions

Complete your AI StageFinder profile. Include your positioning, biography, preferred locations and clearly described speaking programs.

How to activate your free year
1. Visit https://aistagefinder.tools/pricing
2. Select the Yearly Pro Plan and click Subscribe.
3. On the Stripe checkout page, click “Add promotion code” under the order summary.
4. Enter your coupon code: NSA2026VIP
5. Click Apply. Your total will update to $0.00 for the first full year. Complete checkout to activate your account instantly.
Send Aidan a note when your profile is ready. As offered during the session, he will review and help optimize it. aidan@shortcircuitmedia.com
Start your prospecting routine. Review the opportunities surfaced, verify the event and contact details, and approach suitable decision-makers with a personalized message. Aim to build toward five relevant contacts per working day.

Four Downloadable Resources

Workshop Slides — Review the positioning framework, demonstrations and prospecting workflow.
Practical_AI_for_Professional_Speakers
Event Opportunity Finder Prompt — The customizable prompt demonstrated during the session for recurring speaking-opportunity research.
Event_Opportunity_Pulse_Formatted_Prompt

Session Recording and Tool Access

Activate your included 12 months of AI StageFinder:
Explore Always-On Advisor: https://always-on-advisor.com
AI StageFinder Office Hours: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87557758294?pwd=GxgMg3jrWpd27AAEI7EwRtU3RRmb1x.1

Remember: Review AI-generated research and copy before using them. Confirm that the facts, suggested positioning and promised outcomes accurately represent your expertise.

Susan Frew Resources

Dream Team Auction Resources 2026

Resources

How to activate your free year