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Talks that help leadership teams reach the next level of growth.

Michael Peluso, founder of True Living, speaks to owners, CEOs, CFOs and the leaders beside them about the next level of growth. Audiences learn how to find the link that sets their company's pace, give every leader clear authority and real-time numbers, free the CEO's time for what grows the company, and put AI to work keeping it all moving.

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Michael Peluso, founder of True Living, smiling in a light blue shirt
Michael PelusoFounder, True Living
  • Investor and entrepreneur
  • Owns and operates construction businesses
  • Trained athletes for years
  • Nearly two decades in human performance and leadership
  • Spoke at the Investor Expo, Las Vegas
  • Has hosted masterminds and retreats

Signature talk

The Slowest Link

Finding the link that sets a growing company's pace, and building the structure that takes it to the next level

Owners and leadership teams leave this talk knowing what sets their company's pace and what to fix first. Every company has one link that sets its pace. Past $5M, it's usually the way decisions are structured. The company has grown faster than the way it decides, and too many calls still route through one seat. Michael Peluso shows how to find that link with Eliyahu Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, and how to clear it with a management ecosystem. Clear numbers, leaders who own their areas and their decisions, a rhythm for decisions, written processes and AI agents that gather and follow up. One owner's CFO said it would take ten years before he could step back. He was out of the day-to-day years ahead of that forecast, and used the time to set a bigger goal.

Best for: owners, CEOs, CFOs, controllers and leadership teams of established companies doing $5M or more a year. Construction audiences get construction examples.

Three takeaways

  1. Find your bottleneck.A two-week decision log and one number, executive lag, show where decisions slow down and how fast the company really decides.
  2. Build the ecosystem around it.The scorecard, the lanes, the decision rights and a rhythm that frees the CEO's time for vision and the next big move.
  3. Put AI agents to work.Agents that gather the numbers, draft SOPs and follow up, so execution gets faster and more consistent.
A company can only finish as much work as its slowest step. Everything above the line is capacity you already pay for that sits waiting. Clear the slowest step and output rises until the next step sets the pace. Illustrative numbers.

Tuned to the room

The same idea, tuned to the room.

For CFOs and controllers

When the Forecast Says Ten Years

Built for the person who keeps the numbers. Finance leaders leave with a plan for real-time numbers every week, every number owned, and cash, margin and receivables seen early. This version covers the scorecard, the insight that comes from connected financials, executive lag as a number you can track, and a company value score, including how much the company depends on any one person, measured at the start and again a year in.

For contractor owners

Bigger Jobs, Stronger Margins

Built for contractor owners and their leadership teams who are ready for the next level. Michael walks the chain of a construction company, from winning the bid to collecting retainage, shows where the structure slows decisions down, and takes the room through Map, Design, Install and Grow with job-site examples. Owners and their leaders leave with a plan to take on bigger work and protect margin as volume climbs.

For CEO groups, investor events and leadership offsites

The Original TEAM

Time, Energy, Agreements and Money. Michael trained athletes for years before he worked with owners, and the four levers he used with high performers are the same ones that set how far an owner and a leadership team can go. This version covers the seven essential lifestyle habits as performance levers, and how the personal TEAM became the TEAM System companies install. Built for owners, leaders and investors in any industry.

Built for rooms like CFMA chapters, ABC and AGC chapters, CEO peer groups, investor events and company leadership offsites.

Formats

Three ways to book it.

Keynote

45 to 60 minutes, with optional Q&A

The idea, the story and the system behind it. Built for chapter meetings, conferences and annual events.

Workshop

Half day, 3 to 4 hours

Owners and their leaders work on their own companies. Each team maps its chain, makes a first call on where its bottleneck sits, drafts a first scorecard and maps one handoff as a swimlane. Built for leadership teams, peer groups and chapter education days.

Panel

30 to 60 minutes

Michael joins as a panelist or moderator on owner succession, management systems for growing companies, AI in day-to-day operations, or performance habits for leaders.

In person or virtual.

On stage

Past stages

  • Investor Expo, Las Vegas, 2021. Spoke on the investor mindset, the use of language, and how to change your own thinking to reach your goals. Robbie Law also spoke.
  • Investor masterminds.
  • Host, True Living masterminds and retreats.

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Speaker bios

Speaker bio, 50 words

Michael Peluso founded True Living, which installs True Living OS, a simple operating system with AI built in, so established companies and their leaders get an easier way to grow. An investor and entrepreneur, he owns and operates construction businesses, has spoken at investor masterminds and trained athletes for years.

Speaker bio, 150 words

Michael Peluso is the founder of True Living. His team installs True Living OS, a simple operating system with AI built in, in established companies doing $5M or more. The work starts with the Theory of Constraints. Every company has one link that sets its pace. Past $5M, it is usually how decisions are structured, not who makes them. True Living OS clears it with clear numbers, leaders who own their areas, a rhythm for decisions, written processes and AI agents that gather and follow up. Michael is an investor and entrepreneur who owns and operates construction businesses. He advised, and held equity in, a residential concrete company that grew more than sevenfold, to three locations with a full sales and office team. He trained athletes for years, has spent nearly two decades in human performance and leadership, and has spoken at investor masterminds, including the Investor Expo in Las Vegas.

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