Keynote speaker · Former public-company CEO · Professor
Lessons from the CEO’s chair, ready to use on Monday.
Lew Jaffe has led and scaled companies, ones he founded and ones where he was the hired gun, private and public, up to $750 million. He brings that experience to stages, boardrooms and the classroom, and every audience leaves with tools they can put to work the next day.
Companies and boards
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Speaking
Talks built on what actually works inside companies
Lew doesn’t give a templated keynote. Each session mixes principles, real stories from the CEO’s chair and live problem-solving with the audience. People leave with tools, not just notes.
Unlock Hidden Performance
Most companies have more capacity than they use. How to find what’s holding yours back, on top of whatever system you already run: EOS, OKRs or your own.
Interesting vs. Important
Why busy teams fall behind, and how to get the right people doing the right things at the right time.
The Leading Edge Formula
Revenue and KPIs tell you what already happened. How to find the leading activities that predict the result, and run the business on them.
Deciding Isn’t Doing
Five frogs sit on a log. Four decide to jump. How many are left? A talk on execution, accountability and the two things always in your control.
The One Day MBA
The critical stuff they don’t teach in business school. Practical tools for new and middle managers.
AI for Operators
What leaders need to understand about the workflows that make AI pay off, and how to build a practical AI roadmap.
I learn more from Lew in one hour than I do from the vast majority of my advisors and board in months. He makes the complicated simple, and communicates in a way that I can use immediately.Dr. Michelle LongmireCEO, Medable
For CEOs of $10M+ companies
Want this thinking inside your company? That’s Capstone.
Lew is the founder and managing director of Capstone Business Performance Advisors. Capstone’s advisors are former CEOs who have run companies over $100 million. They coach, advise, teach and serve as accountability partners for CEOs working on growth, execution, leadership and the blind spots that hold a company back.
A Capstone result
A founder’s son took over a transportation company whose growth had stalled. It doubled revenue in two years, then sold, and the final price came in at 2× EBITDA above the buyer’s first offer.
Book and training program
The One Day MBA
The critical stuff they don’t teach in business school. Lew’s Amazon bestseller is tactical, not academic: tools a manager can use the same week.
It is also a 2.5-hour training program for new and middle managers at Fortune 1000 companies, with two hands-on breakout exercises.
About Lew
From inner-city Philadelphia to the CEO’s chair
Lew started as an engineer and college basketball player, then built his early career at Intel, including a posting in Hong Kong. He went on to serve as CEO of PictureTel (NASDAQ), the video conferencing pioneer he led to $750 million in revenue and a sale in 2001, and of Oxford Media; as President and COO of Verso Technologies; and as founder of MoviMe Network.
He serves on the boards of Reed’s Inc. and FitLife Brands and is lead independent director of York Telecom. He was previously lead independent director of Benihana. Today he is a Clinical Professor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Loyola Marymount University.
Media & Podcasts
Hosting a business podcast?
Lew talks about CEO performance and scaling a company, leadership and coaching, boards and governance, and teaching entrepreneurship.
Lew speaking to entrepreneurs and MBA students at Florida Atlantic University