The live marketplace for CEOs and founders
Your next competitive advantage may be something, or someone, you don’t know exists yet.
The Billion Dollar Impact Party is a fast-moving, curated marketplace for CEOs who want to grow their business, expand their relationships, discover what’s next, and make a difference.
We’ve curated one room where you can discover people, ideas, products, services, tools, experiences and opportunities you aren’t likely to find in the usual places, while giving back at the same time.
Think of it as the best part of a trade show, accelerated into two hours, with impact built in.
And when business gets done, a portion of every purchase supports Samueli Academy.
You don’t have to choose between growing your business and doing good.
You can do both.
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This is the Billion Dollar Impact Marketplace
And some of it isn’t something you buy at all. Sometimes the most valuable thing in the room is someone saying, “you two need to know each other.”
It spans every department, which is why it’s you in the room and not a delegate. Marketing, AI, culture, coaching, which cause your company rallies around: only the CEO sits above all of it.
And when business gets done, a portion of every purchase creates impact for a meaningful cause.
Business grows. Relationships grow. Impact grows.
"Ignite leadership at every level of your organization."
Not just the top. Every level.
The best opportunities often come through people
Meet one another. Learn from one another. Open doors for one another. Every CEO in this room brings their own experience, relationships, ideas and opportunities.
"A big part of your success comes down to your own leadership and how you choose to step up. If you want your business to grow by 40% this year, you have to grow by at least 60% to carry that growth. Because when the business starts expanding faster than we do, we'll unconsciously find a way to sabotage it. Our own hidden patterns and drivers can end up sabotaging the very success we've been working for."
Your hosts
Scale your impact.
Stacey Lauren
Founder, Do The Thing & Billion Dollar Impact · TEDx speaker
Stacey spent more than 20 years building and leading a company that grew to $35 million in annual revenue. Today she brings together CEOs, experts, communities, opportunities and causes to help leaders expand their visibility, relationships, opportunities and impact. Her TEDx talk has reached nearly 2 million views, and In less than a year, Billion Dollar Impact activations have generated more than $500,000 in impact and purpose-driven commerce.
Scale your business.
Allison Maslan
Founder & CEO, Pinnacle Global Network · Wall Street Journal bestselling author
A serial entrepreneur who has built 10 companies, Allison has mentored more than 150,000 CEOs and leadership teams. Through Pinnacle Global Network and her SCALEit Method®, she helps successful CEOs build stronger teams, break through growth plateaus and create companies that can scale beyond them.
Featured speaker
Head of Community Engagement, Virgin Unite · strategic connector · social impact advocate
Suzy leads the global community at Virgin Unite, the nonprofit foundation of Richard Branson and the Virgin Group, bringing together philanthropists, entrepreneurs and business leaders who want to use their resources, influence and networks for good. Before that, six years at the Clinton Global Initiative, producing more than 30 global gatherings.
Her work is grounded in a Seven Generations philosophy: making decisions today that can positively impact people and the planet for generations to come.
She brings business, relationships and impact together, with the future in mind.
And then… see what drops
Throughout the two hours you’ll get access to people, offers, experiences and opportunities curated to help you grow your business, expand your world and create greater impact. Here are some of the people behind them.
Michelle Cameron Coulter
Olympic gold medalist · TEDx speaker
Six-time World Champion and Olympic gold medallist, from a girl who was terrified of water. TEDx speaker, best-selling author, and a recipient of the Order of Canada.
Cory Warfield
LinkedIn Top Voice
A LinkedIn Top Voice with over a billion impressions, whose coaching clients have brought in more than $6B in revenue, investment and acquisitions.
Laura Carney
Author, My Father’s List
Twenty years copy-editing Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair, then an Amazon best-seller that reached more than 300 outlets including CBS Sunday Morning, NBC Nightly News and the BBC.
Kim Sorrelle
CEO, Love Is
A multi-best-selling author who has started and sold businesses at seven and eight figures, spoken at Harvard and the UN, and appeared on more than 300 podcasts.
James Hickey
Founder, SD Networking Events
36 events a year since 2021, and eighteen years in digital marketing before that.
George Makrinos
Screenwriter and producer · creator of Deep Storywork
A screenwriter and producer writing a major motion picture for Universal, who has worked with Stephen Schwartz, Spike Lee and Guillermo del Toro. His Deep Storywork system turns a company’s mission into a film.
Jennie Edwards
Video storyteller · Guided By Imagination
A TEDx speaker and best-selling author of Empowered You. She gets people who hate being on camera to make three videos in four hours, edited and published before they log off.
Avery Crumrine
Founder and CEO, Asterah
Best-selling author of Intention Into Action and founder of Asterah, where her Author Follow Through System gets aspiring authors from idea to published book in 45 days.
Mare Brighton
Founder and CEO, Connection Project 360
Thirty years helping people reach dreams they had shelved. Speaker, author and podcast host, she calls the work Dream Lifting: play with your own dreams, then go and carry someone else’s.
Jean Green
Founder, Oh Snap Storytelling
A Distinguished Toastmaster and storytelling trainer with Capital Storytelling. Her Oh Snap method uses your own everyday photos to find the stories you had forgotten were there.
Brittany Jenkins
Founder and CEO, The Buzz Marketing Co.
More than 15 years and 150-plus brand transformations behind The Buzz Marketing Co. Her whole approach: stop blending in, become impossible to ignore.
Russell Baer
Photographer · Time, W, ELLE, Teen Vogue
The photographer behind some of the most famous faces in the world. A-list actors and global personalities, shot for Time, W, People, Teen Vogue, Newsweek, ELLE and Men’s Fitness.
From the cause
Alex Vrabeck, MPA
Director of Development, Samueli Academy
She connects the people, businesses and community support that make additional programs and opportunities possible for Samueli Academy students.
What each of them brings, in full.
See the catalogue →Where business meets impact
This party isn’t only about discovering what’s possible for your business. It’s about helping create what’s possible for someone else.
A public charter school in Santa Ana serving grades 7 through 12, with on-site foster care living for students who need it.
The school says it serves more than 800 students, creating access to education, experiences, relationships and opportunities designed to help them discover their potential and prepare for their futures.
Samueli Academy was built through a collaboration of philanthropy, business, education and child advocacy, which makes it a fitting beneficiary for a room built around business and impact.
Gifts to their Annual Fund bridge the gap between state funding and what a full education actually costs, at little to no cost to families.
What the Annual Fund covers
Alex Vrabeck, MPA · Director of Development, Samueli Academy
Alex is in the room on September 23.
And on September 23, a portion of every purchase supports Samueli Academy.
Raised since October 2025 through two-hour virtual parties like this one. That's what happens when this room gets going.
Real wins from past Parties
Real people who raised a paddle at a past Billion Dollar Impact Party, and what that single yes turned into.
Avery's story
"Everything leads into each other."
Lyn Bloom's story
"Money can't buy this, but the room made it possible."
A keynote, bought in the room
"Because the ideal buyer was in that room."
Kristin Gutierrez's story
"All from simply raising her paddle and saying yes."
Straight from the room
A CEO peer-group leader, and buyers from past Billion Dollar Impact Parties, in their own words.
“When Stacey brought the issue to the CEO group, we loved the concept, the paradigm, the shift. Unprompted by me, she got thumbs up all around from the CEOs saying you are really onto something.”
Mike Richardson Partner, REF Peer Groups · builds CEO peer-advisory boards
“If you see it and it’s right for you, buy it. Just buy it, because you’re not going to see it again.”
Kim Sorrelle CEO, Love Is · in the room on September 23
“I never would have done any of that without getting that first offer, and I never would have heard about that offer outside the auction.”
Avery Crumrine Co-founder, Billion Dollar Impact Marketplace
“I’m actually going to be totally decreasing my costs by bringing this in.”
Jocelyn King On a tool she bought that replaced ones she was already paying for
“We were able to deliver beautiful blankets to all the moms and all their children there. It filled my heart and brought me to tears.”
Scott Thornton President, Temecula Winnelson · in the room on September 23
Grow your business. Open new doors. Help open doors for someone else.
You don’t have to know exactly what you’re looking for before you walk in.
That’s the point.
You can’t leverage what you can’t see.
Unite millions of people and communities around shared goals to create a billion dollars of impact.
That’s Billion Dollar Impact.
Reserve your seat
I want you to come see what’s in the room. You may find something for your business, your team, your clients or your impact, including something you didn’t even know to look for.
Come meet some great people, see what’s possible, and have some fun doing it.
Stacey LaurenAnd want to make it even more fun?
Teams are a fun extra way to be part of the experience.
Give your team a name, invite a few CEOs, founders, or business leaders you’d love to have in the room, and experience the party together.
We’ve done this before:
And when we get to the Billion Dollar Impact Party, we’ll shout out the teams helping bring the room together.
Want to have even more fun? Give your team a call sign, phrase, or gesture for when we call you out.
Completely optional.
Come on your own. Bring your people. Create a team.
Either way, get in the room.
You never know who is waiting for you there, or what opportunity.
Create my team →Before you go
No. Think curated marketplace, not sales webinar. You’ll have opportunities to network, meet amazing people, discover new ideas and offers, and hear about an incredible cause. The offers move fast, so if you see something you want, buy it. If not, keep exploring. Come for the possibilities. Stay for the people and the impact.
Not at all. It’s free to attend, and plenty of people come for the room itself. If nothing is right for you this time, you’ve still spent two hours with other CEOs and world-class experts.
We run it live on Spltyr. Set up your profile and add your card before the day, so when something you want drops you can say yes in seconds instead of wrestling with checkout while the room moves on.
No. Everything is sold live, in the room. That is the whole design: the experts show up, the offers drop, and you are there to catch them.
No. It happens once, and the buying only happens live, so if you cannot be there on the day you will miss what drops.
The catalogue is a preview, not the full list. Some drops are not announced until we are live, and the people in the room are half the reason to come. The expert who sees something you have been missing is not something you can browse for in advance.
Yes. Tell us how many seats when you register, and once you are in you will get a personal invite link to send anyone else who belongs in the room.
A portion of the proceeds goes straight to Samueli Academy, a public charter school in Santa Ana with on-site foster care living for students who need it. Their Annual Fund covers what state funding does not.
