Event One
What's Love Got to Do With It?
Choosing love over fear as a strategy for leadership, growth, and impact
What if love is not a soft leadership ideal, but one of the most powerful choices a leader can make?
In a time defined by accelerating technology, uncertainty, and fear-based decision-making, Brett Hurt, serial entrepreneur, investor, and author of Love Conquers Fear: Humanity, AI, and the Age of Abundance for All, invites us to reconsider the force from which we lead.
Drawing from a career that includes founding Coremetrics, Bazaarvoice, and data.world, Brett will explore the power of personal agency: our ability to choose how we respond, what we build, and who we become — even when the future feels uncertain. He will share why leading from love does not mean lowering standards or avoiding hard decisions. It means meeting those decisions with courage, clarity, empathy, and a commitment to the long-term good.
The evening will continue with Elijah May, founder of The Experience Firm and co-founder and CEO of Funded House, in conversation with Ben Forrest about courage, impact, and the responsibility leaders carry to leave a positive imprint on the people they influence.
Together, these conversations will challenge us to ask:
What is driving the way I lead — love or fear? And what kind of ripple am I creating through the choices I make every day?
This is an evening for founders, executives, investors, community builders, and anyone ready to lead with greater intention. Guests will leave with a renewed sense of agency, a more expansive definition of courage, and a practical invitation to make love visible through how they decide, communicate, build, and serve.
Featuring Brett Hurt, Elijah May, and Ben Forrest