Media + Speaking

Innovate, Build, Operate, Elevate. Expertise Worth Hearing.

Explore keynote presentations, recorded content, and panel discussions from advisor-doers who can align people around a vision and the critical few value-creating priorities from the strategic investors to the frontline.

Media + Speaking Themes

We deliver engaging sessions to strategic investors, boards, companies, and conveners

Transformational Leadership | Modern Workforce + Talent | Modernization Mandates

Enterprise Technology | Industrial Technology | Responsible Technology

Sustainability | ESG | Responsible Ownership

Innovation | Commercialization | Value Creation

Mergers | Acquisitions | Divestitures | Carveouts | Spin-Offs | IPOs

Thought Leadership via Signature Talks

Content can be tailored to your audience

Margo Diewald, managing director of Adeptation, shares insights and actions you can take to earn your first seat at the table. If you’re past that initial stage, she shares what enables you to move up to progressively bigger, more impactful tables. For more senior audiences, she shares how to make effective use of your seat at the table with a global, board-ready perspective. She will also offer personalized guidance to 2 or 3 people who are willing to go ‘on the hot seat’.

Margo Diewald and John Green, managing directors of Adeptation, explore the deeper reasons why manufacturers struggle to attract, develop, and retain talent, sharing insights from family-owned, PE-backed, and corporate-run organizations.

Margo Diewald and John Green, managing directors of Adeptation, deliver insights from their respective experiences in VC, PE, and Corporate acquisitions. John brings the perspective of a seasoned operator with multiple reps leading commercial and operations turnaround and professionalization with an established playbook built on LEAN principles and corporate resources. Margo offers perspective from multiple angles – as an employee at and as a strategic advisor-operator to family-operated, PE-acquired, corporate-acquired, and VC-acquired companies in multiple sectors. Margo and John know how companies must modernize by empowering competent, confident next-gen leaders with the strategic, commercial, operational, financial, people, regulatory and compliance acumen they need to run healthy businesses.

Margo Diewald and John Green, managing directors of Adeptation, are experienced commercial and operations executives who have owned P&Ls and deals. They know how the most disciplined M&A buyers operate. They advise business owners and their teams what to expect in the due diligence process and how to get ready for post-close value creation and transformation.

Margo Diewald and John Green, managing directors of Adeptation, facilitate an executive discussion exploring what enterprise industrial and manufacturing firms and their trusted technology and advisory partners must do to embed their modern mandates deeper into the supply chain. They provide a pragmatic and balanced perspective on which priorities are actionable and how, given the varying size, sophistication, and internal capabilities of your suppliers.

This session can be customized to:

  • Cybersecurity, data privacy, and IP protection
  • Digital transformation (IT, manufacturing technology, BI, eCommerce, data architecture and systems integrations)
  • ESG and Responsible Ownership – navigating competing frameworks and priority issues – decarbonization and the energy transition, biodiversity, water stewardship, waste and circularity, human rights and decent work, or emerging topics such as SFDR or extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws

Why Book Adeptation?

When you book Margo, John, or both, your audience gets:

Recorded Content

Divestiture Communications

360-Degree M&A Communications

In a transaction, communications not “updates.” It’s how you reduce ambiguity, align and lead organizations through complexity fast enough for the work to move.

Margo Diewald joins Klint Kendrick, founder of Master Your Merger, to share what 360-degree M&A communication looks like in all types of transactions.

She shares insights from merger integrations, divestitures, spin-offs, IPOs, and complex carveouts.

What you’ll takeaway from this conversation:

  • The practical meaning of 360-degree M&A communications across functions and audiences
  • Why you must anchor everything to a North Star
  • Why you need a tightly orchestrated, brand-integrated narrative
  • The discretion, trust, and areas of expertise you need in an M&A communicator
Strategic Planning & Go-To-Market Execution

Commercializing Consumer Goods

Whether you’re a founder, owner, or investor, this top-to-top conversation between Chris Brunelli, co-founder of Surpass Commerce, and Margo has two episodes’ worth of insights about CPG, distribution, retail and grocery, leadership, and what makes a business buyable. 

Margo Diewald shares insights from her client work to commercialize consumer products and win across channels – retail, direct-to-consumer, and online marketplaces.

What you’ll takeaway from this conversation:

  • Build a revenue engine, not just a brand or product
  • The $1-to-$5 pricing rule. In today’s tariff and inflationary environment, founders who don’t master retail math will get squeezed out
  • Your packaging has to do a different job in a grocery store than it does online or at a farmer’s market
  • What to expect out of your first appearance on QVC, flash sale sites, or any other time-limited sales burst
  • Mindshare follows money. Underpaying for help is a costly error
  • The top green flag that signals talent worth working with
Brand & Communications Strategy

Enabling Two-Way Digital Comms

Digital communications is essential to reaching your entire workforce – including your frontline and deskless employees.

In this webinar, host Gregg Apirian engages Margo Diewald and Dominic Hand in an executive discussion exploring how Comms and IT partner to enable and secure a decentralized communications model.

Learn how to balance flexibility with controls to get it right so you can unlock faster delivery, increased relevancy and targeting of messages, and better employee engagement and alignment.

Topics include:

  • Tradeoffs in centralized and decentralized models
  • Governance and security considerations
  • Balancing company and user-generated comms
  • Q&A!