AI, marketing, and leadership keynotes for owners who want both. For leaders who want to scale without wrecking the people around them.
Jay Owen · St. Augustine, FL
The ones that survive are often worn out,
stressed out, and ready to quit.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Here’s how Jay helps owners build something that actually lasts, without burning out:
StoryBrand-certified frameworks that turn confused visitors into customers.
See The Topics → 0225+ years of hard-earned lessons on growth, leadership, and not blowing up your family.
Explore The Resources → 03Practical AI playbooks small business owners are actually winning with in 2026.
Get The Playbook →Jay Owen is a keynote speaker, author of Building a Business that Lasts, and CEO of Business Builders, a digital marketing agency he has grown profitably for 25+ years. He also serves as Chief of Ministry Staff at The Church of Eleven22, one of the fastest-growing churches in America. He helps small business owners grow with AI, StoryBrand messaging, and leadership frameworks — through keynotes, workshops, a weekly newsletter read by 5,000+ owners, and a free AI Business Growth Playbook.
No theory dressed up as advice. Your room hears what is actually working inside a real P&L this quarter — and leaves with plays they can run Monday.
Your audience walks out with workflows already running inside a real agency this quarter — not war stories from someone else's keynote.
They hear math from 25 years of building a profitable services business in an industry where 96% of agencies fail inside ten. The math is the message.
Faith and family inform the work. The room feels the weight of it. Nobody gets preached at — and everyone leaves seen.
You will never hear me say I’ve figured it all out. I have not. I’m still in the arena, growing, fighting, learning, right alongside other business owners and leaders.
Four talks built around the actual decisions leaders and owners are facing this year. Refined across hundreds of rooms — and tuned to your event.
What founders actually need to know about AI in 2026. No demos. No vendor talk. Real workflows Jay is running inside his own agency right now, broken down into what to start, what to ignore, and what to delegate.
The signature talk. 25 years compressed into 45 minutes, organized around the five decisions that quietly compound. Audiences cry, then laugh, then change something on the drive home.
Crafting marketing messaging that actually gets people’s attention. A StoryBrand-rooted playbook for moving customers from stranger to prospect to buyer — without the noise of vanity metrics or another reframe-of-the-week.
Work-life balance is a fallacy. Life doesn’t stack into neat columns — it blends. 25+ years of running a business, 25+ years of marriage, and five kids in the house: this talk is the practical insights from inside the blender, not the theory from outside it.
Live events, workshops, and conference keynotes. Click through to watch on YouTube.
New post every Tuesday. Practical writing on AI, leadership, and building a business that lasts. See all posts →
Five questions on a Saturday morning. The audit your business gets every quarter that you have never run on yourself.
Fifteen years of off-site retreats with team and spouses. What I have learned about how culture actually gets made.
Lincoln lost almost everything you can lose in public life. The one word that separates the names you know from the names you do not.
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Jay's dedicated home for AI consulting, training, vetted tools, and the playbooks small business owners are actually using to grow in 2026.
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Building a Business that Lasts. New conversations with operators every week.
Keynotes, workshops, and private consulting available. Travel from Jacksonville, FL included on most domestic engagements. Custom programs and recurring residencies available on request.
A 45–60 minute mainstage talk built for conferences, leadership summits, and association events. Jay opens or closes the room with one of his four signature topics, tailored to your audience.
Half- or full-day working session for executive teams and mastermind groups. Frameworks, templates, and live decisions. Attendees leave with a finished plan, not a notebook full of inspiration.
Multi-day retreats, advisory weeks, and recurring residencies. Jay co-designs the agenda with your team, then delivers as keynote, facilitator, and operator-in-residence.
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