A three-day working experience for established women founders ready to scale with more profitability and ease.
Annual Founder Summit 2026
You Can Find Information Anywhere. You Can't Replicate This Room.
A three-day working experience for established women founders ready to scale with more profitability and ease, and gain the strategy, connections, visibility, and access to move their business forward.
Three Days. One Room. Your Next Move.
You can watch another webinar. Download another growth plan. Listen to another podcast.
But you can't replicate the people, proximity, access, and opportunity that come from being in the right room.
The Annual Founder Summit brings together established women founders, funders, bankers, national partners, sponsors, experts, and more for three days focused on what's next.
This is for the founder who wants to:
- Scale with greater profitability and ease
- Earn more without having to do more
- Grow without adding more complexity or burnout
- Explore funding and prepare for growth
- Build relationships that open new doors
- Increase visibility and get in front of the right people
- Create a plan for what's next, whether that's scaling, expanding, or eventually selling and exiting your business
Come With Questions. Leave With a Plan.
This isn't a conference you simply attend. You'll spend equal time learning, planning, mapping your growth, and connecting.
You'll leave with:
A PLAN: A clearer roadmap for your next stage of growth.
PRACTICAL STRATEGY: Tools and insights you can put to work in your business.
ACCESS: Connections to funders, bankers, partners, sponsors, and experts.
VISIBILITY: Opportunities to get seen by the people you need to know.
CONNECTIONS: Relationships with founders and potential partners, champions, collaborators, and funders.
The experience is designed to help you turn your goals into action, and learn how to leverage the people and opportunities around you to help make it happen.
Lineup
Coco Sellman
Sarah Benken Foushee
Kayla Burch
Mary Swenson
Sharina Perry
Terri Eagle
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Highlights
- 2 days 8 hours
- In person
Refund Policy
Location
Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center
7800 East Tufts Avenue
Denver, CO 80237
How do you want to get there?
Agenda
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Tuesday - Day 1: Envision
You leave knowing who you serve, why your company exists, where it's going, and the one goal that defines the next twelve months. Registration and breakfast open the day, followed by the HOPE2Women welcome and a commitment exercise to set the tone for all three days. You'll learn the Force for Good system, then spend the morning defining your Core Purpose. After lunch, guest speaker Mary Swenson (World Trade Center Delaware) shares the real road to a million dollars, mistakes included. The day builds to your 12-Month Breakthrough Goal: a single, specific target for the next year, pressure-tested before you commit to it.
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Welcome Reception: Sponsored by T-Mobile (GOLD + VIP ticket holders)
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Wednesday - Day 2: Build
You leave with the plan itself: the map from here to your goal, an honest assessment of what helps and what's in the way, the year sequenced by quarter, and next month assigned with owners. The day opens with the Transformational Map, the bridge from where your business is now to your breakthrough goal, followed by a Focused SWOT where you name your own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats against a live aggregate from the room. Before lunch, a panel discussion on Challenge and Overcoming features Gwen Hart and other founders on what it actually takes to keep moving when the plan meets reality. The afternoon works backward from your twelve-month goal into a Quarterly Map, then narrows to the three things that must happen in the next 30 days, each with a named owner. You'll close by trading plans with a peer for real feedback in both directions.