The Builders / Speaker

Audrey
Gelman

CEO & Founder, Six Bells

The Brand World-Builder

Audrey Gelman is the founder of Six Bells, a brand that operates a Michelin Key-recognized inn and restaurant, homewares store and online retail business. She has spent more than a decade building experiential brands at the forefront of design-driven commerce. She is one of the most thoughtful voices on community, taste, and the quiet craft of building a brand that earns its devotion slowly.

Audrey is one of the rarest voices in the room: a thoughtful repeat founder who has built across community, brand, and physical retail, and who is genuinely willing to share what she has learned along the way.

Speaking Fee

Upon request

Format

Keynote · Fireside

Speaking Topics / 02

What Audrey brings to the stage.

What Repeat Founders Know

What you actually learn about capital, culture, hiring, and the quiet differences between the kind of company that’s right for venture and the kind that isn’t.

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Community as a Business Model

When community works, when it doesn’t, and why so many of the brands that called themselves “community” in 2018 were actually selling something else. A clear-eyed reframe of one of the most overused words in tech.

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Physical Space as Brand

Why retail and physical space are having their most interesting moment in two decades, and what The Six Bells, and her broader thesis on small, soulful brands, says about where the modern consumer is heading.

iv.

The Public Founder, Honestly

What founders should think about when it comes to visibility, the press, and the cost of becoming the face of a company, from someone who has done it twice and lived to refine her own playbook.

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