Speaking

Meeting planner info

Everything you need to put Chris on your program. Copy the bios and the introduction as written, or ask for a version to fit your guide.

Programs at a glance

Keynote

You Already Have Software. That's the Problem.

45 to 60 minutes. Association conferences, trade shows, peer groups and franchise meetings.

Workshop

Find Your AI Power Score

2 to 4 hours. Leadership teams, masterminds and the breakout track of a conference.

Recap or panel

What Did You Just Hear

30 minutes. The end of a conference day, a panel slot, or a virtual member event.

Full descriptions are on the speaking page.

Short bio

For programs and apps

Chris Kiefer is the founder of paintOS, which connects and automates the systems behind 24 painting companies. As marketing director at a $10M painting company, he spent three years wiring its CRM, estimating, production and accounting together, and the company grew to $21M. He hosts The Pursuit of Purpose podcast.

Full bio

For websites and event guides

Chris Kiefer is the founder of paintOS. He came out of the marketing director seat at a $10M painting company, where the job was spending a $1M marketing budget and he could not trust a single number he was looking at. Nothing was connected to anything.

So he spent three years wiring the CRM to the estimating software to accounting to job costing, in pursuit of better data for his own marketing. The company went from $10M to $21M in that stretch. He trained as an engineer, which is where he learned to pull a messy process apart and rebuild it so anyone can run it.

Marketing directors at other painting companies started asking him to set the same thing up for them, and that became paintOS, which now runs the data foundation and the automations for 24 painting companies. He hosts The Pursuit of Purpose, a podcast about building a business with meaning, with more than 210 episodes.

Introduction script

About 45 seconds read aloud. Numbers are spelled out so they read cleanly from the stage.

A few months into his job as marketing director of a ten million dollar painting company, our next speaker realized he could not trust a single number on his screen. The CRM said one thing, production said another, and the books said a third. So he went back to his engineering training and spent three years wiring every one of those systems together. That company grew to twenty one million. Today he runs paintOS, which does the same work for twenty four painting companies, and he hosts The Pursuit of Purpose podcast. He is here to tell you what AI can actually do with the data you already have. Please welcome Chris Kiefer.

Room and AV

A wireless microphone. Lavalier or headset preferred, handheld is fine.
HDMI to the main screen. Chris presents from his own laptop.
Reliable internet at the lectern. Most talks include a live demonstration.
A confidence monitor or a view of the screen from the stage, if the room has one.
Workshops: tables, power within reach, and attendees bringing a laptop or phone.

How a booking runs

1.A 20 minute planning call about the audience, the program around the talk and what a win looks like for you.
2.Chris tailors the examples, the self assessment and the workshop exercises to your members.
3.A short check in the week before on timing, setup and anything that has changed.
4.After the event, attendees get a resource page of their own with the worksheet and next steps.