A one-day experience for founders and operators building businesses that matter.
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WORTH IT 2026
Hosted by Mark Perkins
Losing is Winning When We're Learning
Headliners
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Featured Conversations
Glenn Campbell
Scott Molander
Ashley Snyder
Tommy Breedlove
Kass & Mike Lazerow (Virtual)
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Mark Perkins
Mark Perkins is the founder and CEO of Pivot Realty Group and host of The Necessary Entrepreneur podcast. Based in Fort Wright, Kentucky, he leads one of the region’s fastest-growing independent brokerages, serving agents and clients across Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana, with expansion underway in Florida, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
An operator first and an investor second, Mark spends most of his time building. In addition to leading Pivot Realty Group, he has assembled a growing commercial real estate portfolio that continues to expand alongside the markets his brokerage enters.
Known for his hands-on leadership style, Mark believes the best way to grow people is to put them in the arena. Through Pivot, his investments, and The Necessary Entrepreneur, he spends his time around builders, entrepreneurs, and operators willing to take risks, solve problems, and create businesses that actually last.
Kass & Mike Lazerow
Kass and Mike Lazerow are serial entrepreneurs, early stage investors, and New York Times bestselling authors known for building and backing high growth companies. Over the past three decades they have founded and scaled several successful ventures, including Buddy Media, which was acquired by Salesforce for $745 million in 2012, and GOLF.com, which they sold to Time Warner.
As investors, they have backed more than 100 startups, including companies such as Scopely and Liquid Death. The businesses they have founded or supported have produced more than $10 billion in realized returns.
Their bestselling book Shoveling $h!t: A Love Story About the Entrepreneur’s Messy Path to Success offers an honest look at the realities of building a company and the resilience required to succeed. Today they invest in and operate companies across venture capital, healthcare, executive recruiting, and sports while advising founders and leaders on scaling businesses and leading with clarity.
Tommy Breedlove
Tommy Breedlove is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of Legendary, and an internationally recognized keynote speaker.
He has delivered transformational talks for Toyota, HSBC, Cushman & Wakefield, and numerous other Fortune 500 companies, industry groups, and entrepreneur-led businesses.
Tommy began his career at Deloitte before rising to Shareholder, International Practice Leader, and Board Member at one of the largest accounting and financial firms in the Southeast. Today, his mission is clear and powerful: to challenge ambitious business leaders to build and live Legendary lives.
Through practical tools, real-world strategies, and an engaging, authentically fun style, Tommy inspires audiences to trade confusion for clarity, lead with courage, and create Legendary lives of meaning, impact, and success.
Ashley Snyder
Ashley is leading AI transformation for businesses navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence.
She leverages 14 years of Salesforce experience, where she joined when the company had roughly 7,000 employees and grew alongside it to more than 85,000 worldwide. Being part of that scale gave her firsthand insight into how high-growth companies build revenue engines, develop talent, and evolve systems that support massive expansion. During her tenure, she was hand-selected by leadership for five pilot roles, where she built and scaled teams and processes across sales development, enterprise sales, and leadership. She consistently exceeded quota while developing multiple top-performing teams and future leaders.
Today, Ashley operates at the intersection of enterprise sales excellence and AI innovation, helping businesses use intelligent automation to maintain momentum, accelerate growth, and scale faster than ever before. In a world where AI now gives companies access to capabilities that once took years to build, she shows organizations how to move smarter, faster, and with greater competitive advantage.
Glenn Campbell
Glenn Campbell is an entrepreneur and retail innovator best known as the co-founder of Hat World, the company behind the globally recognized Lids brand. What began in the mid-1990s as a simple idea to specialize in licensed sports headwear grew into the world’s leading retailer in the category. Campbell helped build Hat World from a startup into a global retail operation with thousands of locations across North America and partnerships with the biggest leagues in professional sports.
Before launching Hat World, Campbell worked with Foot Locker, where he developed an early understanding of the growing intersection between sports, culture, and retail. That insight helped shape the strategy behind Lids, which became known for its focused product assortment, strong vendor relationships, and deep connection to sports fans.
After spending more than two decades helping scale the company, Campbell has remained active in business and community leadership. He is a minority owner and President of Baseball Operations for the Cape Catfish of the Prospect League and continues to mentor entrepreneurs and support organizations that promote leadership and business development.
Scott Molander
Scott Molander is an accomplished executive with a background spanning
retail and sports who has built his career on driving growth, leading teams, and executing at a high level.
As President of Dickinson State University, he is focused on developing the next generation of leaders, bringing real-world experience into the classroom and preparing students to navigate and win in an ever-changing environment.
Previously, he served as President of GARED Holdings and CEO of ASB Sports Acquisition, where he led strategic growth initiatives, improved operational performance, and consistently pushed organizations beyond their targets. His work centered on building scalable systems, strengthening financial performance, and positioning companies for long-term success.
He is known for building strong teams and holding a high standard creating environments where people are challenged, supported, and expected to grow. His leadership style is direct, collaborative, and rooted in accountability.
