KEYNOTE SPEAKER • CREATOR • EVENT INDUSTRY STRATEGIST
• KEYNOTE SPEAKER • CREATOR • EVENT INDUSTRY STRATEGIST • KEYNOTE SPEAKER • CREATOR • EVENT INDUSTRY STRATEGIST •
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DANIEL LINARES
ELEVATING
THE UPCOMING GENERATION OF EVENT INDUSTRY PIONEERS
Helping event founders elevate their brand, increase demand, and build powerful, self-scaling businesses that give them clarity, freedom, and a life they genuinely love.
DANIEL LINARES
ELEVATING
THE UPCOMING GENERATION OF
EVENT INDUSTRY PIONEERS
THE UPCOMING GENERATION OF EVENT INDUSTRY PIONEERS
Helping event founders elevate their brand, increase demand, and build powerful, self-scaling businesses that give them clarity, freedom, and a life they genuinely love.
SEEN ON LEADING INDUSTRY STAGES, MASTERMIND COMMUNITIES, AND TOP WEDDING PODCASTS.
Daniel has hosted thousands of live events and spoken at numerous industry gatherings, bringing a rare mix of high-level strategy and real, in-the-trenches experience.
MEET
DANIEL LINARES
Daniel Linares is a visionary creator, entrepreneur, and movement-builder who blends heart, ambition, and artistry into everything he does. Born and raised in Queens, NY, he carries the grit, warmth, and relentless hustle of his hometown into his work as founder of the NYC-based DLE Event Group and the Event Pioneers Impact Coalition (EPIC).
For more than a decade, Daniel has led from the front—scaling a seven-figure luxury entertainment brand, redefining what’s possible with Hybrid DJ + Live Music experiences, and coaching event entrepreneurs across the country through his STAGES™ Framework. This proven roadmap has helped countless founders move from overwhelmed operators to confident, strategic leaders with businesses that finally support the lives they want.
At his core, Daniel is fueled by an abundance mindset and a deep belief in possibility, community, and elevating the people around him. Whether he’s commanding a stage, guiding a mastermind, or sharing on a podcast, he brings the same intention: to serve deeply, simplify the complex, and spark meaningful transformation in the event leaders he works with.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Daniel is the right speaker, guest, or trainer for:
If your audience values growth, clarity, mindset, branding, sales, and turning chaos into a scalable company, Daniel is a perfect fit.
The STAGES™ Framework: A Proven System for Building a Self-Scaling Event Business
From chaos and burnout to clarity, demand, and true freedom.
STAGES™ is Daniel’s proprietary, battle-tested framework built for event entrepreneurs who want a business that grows without consuming their life. It gives founders a clear, sequential path to becoming strategic, calm, and in control again.
He Framework Walks Entrepreneurs Through Six Essential Stages:
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Set the Stage -Define your vision, identity, role, and direction with precision.
Tune Your Brand – Craft a premium, trust-driven brand that pre-sells and attracts ideal clients.
Amplify – Generate consistent visibility and high-quality leads across multiple channels.
Get Booked – Sell through service, not pressure—so clients arrive pre-sold and aligned.
Elevate – Deliver a world-class experience that turns clients into your loudest advocates
Simplify – Build the systems and team that allow your business to scale without you at the center.
STAGES™ is the backbone of Daniel’s talks, workshops, community and coaching. It gives audiences a clear roadmap they can apply immediately—no theory, no fluff, just real-world clarity.
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SIGNATURE TALKS & KEYNOTES
Each keynote, workshop, or podcast conversation is custom-tailored to the audience—whether it’s 50 founders in a mastermind room or 1,500 entrepreneurs at a national conference.
1. Founder Psychology: The Inner Game of a Successful Event Entrepreneur
A powerful, human, mindset-forward keynote that dives into the real work behind building a successful event business: identity, belief systems, emotional resilience, and inner leadership.
Daniel takes founders beneath the surface into the internal patterns that keep them overwhelmed, reactive, or stuck and shows how to rewire decision-making, courage, and clarity from the inside out.
Audience Takeaways:
- The mindset and identity shifts that unlock exponential growth
- How to break cycles of overwhelm, procrastination, and self-sabotage
- Mental models and clarity tools to lead from calm, confidence, and intention
2.The Pre-Sold™ Brand: Become the Only Choice Through Positioning, Trust, and Overwhelming Proof
This keynote blends Category of One positioning, Overwhelming Proof, and pre-persuasion psychology into a single transformational talk.
Daniel reveals how modern buyers really make decisions and how to build a brand experience so trust-rich, so congruent, and so proof-heavy that prospects walk into the sales call already leaning yes.
Attendees learn how to build a Proof Ecosystem that sells for them, how to eliminate objections before the consultation, and how to engineer a brand that feels premium, credible, and undeniably the one.
Audience Takeaways:
- How to reposition your business so competition becomes irrelevant
- The seven Proof Assets every brand must have to convert at a premium
- How to identify and fix brand disconnects that quietly kill sales
- How to use content, testimonials, and story to prime prospects
- How to command higher pricing with ease by becoming pre-sold
3. The Get Booked Method™: Modern Human First Sales for Event Entrepreneurs
A tactical, high-impact keynote that breaks down Daniel’s BOOKED Method, giving founders a complete, human-first system for consistent, high-value sales.
Daniel teaches how to turn consultations into clarity-building experiences, how to present pricing with confidence, how to use vision and transparency to elevate perceived value, and how to guide clients toward an aligned yes without pressure or awkward scripts.
This is sales reimagined, rooted in service, clarity, and trust.
Audience Takeaways:
- A mapped out flow for a modern, high-converting sales consultation
- How to lead clients through clarity, vision, and confidence
- Presentation tactics that increase perceived value
- How to use pre-framing and service to eliminate objections
- How to create ethical urgency that helps clients decide faster
4. Build a Business That Supports Your Life Not the Other Way Around
A heartfelt, transformational keynote about designing a business around what matters most: family, health, purpose, joy, and freedom.
Daniel blends his founder journey with tangible frameworks for avoiding burnout, creating boundaries, and building a business that amplifies your life instead of consuming it.
Audience Takeaways:
- How to design your ideal life first and shape your business around it
- The freedom traps that keep founders stuck or overworking
- Time, boundary, and energy systems that sustain long-term success
FOR PODCAST HOSTS AND INTERVIEWERS
Daniel is an experienced guest and host who thrives in real, unscripted conversation. He is equally comfortable going deep into marketing, sales, systems, and strategy or zooming out into mindset, vision, leadership, and life design.
Great podcast topics include:
- The STAGES Framework and the journey from hustle to clarity and freedom
- How to build a luxury or premium brand without feeling salesy
- What is actually working in event marketing today
- Delegation, family, and designing a business that supports your life
Daniel shows up prepared, on time, and fully present. His goal is to elevate your show, deliver meaningful value, and make you look great to your audience.
PROVEN OPERATOR
Founder of a seven-figure luxury entertainment brand with real experience.
FRAMEWORK-DRIVEN
Practical, clear, actionable systems—not fluff.
HIGH-ENERGY & HEART-LED
Warm, strategic, and deeply human delivery.
AUDIENCE-ALIGNED CUSTOMIZATION
Every talk is tailored to the room.
LONG-TERM SUPPORT PATH
Through EPIC, audiences can continue their growth journey.
Event industry conferences and trade shows
Wedding and creative summits
Entrepreneurial events and business masterminds
Business coaching and group programs
Corporate leadership and culture retreats
Corporate leadership and culture retreats
Brand, marketing, and strategy workshops
EVENT PIONEERS IMPACT COALITION (EPIC)
The Event Pioneers Impact Coalition (EPIC) is Daniel’s national community and coaching platform for established event entrepreneurs who want to scale with integrity, impact, and collaboration. EPIC brings together owners and leaders of event businesses who are committed to building purposeful, profitable, and self-scaling companies while refusing to grow alone.
Members use the STAGES Framework to clarify their vision, elevate their brand and marketing, attract premium clients, and build the systems and teams that support a bigger, more meaningful life. The community provides strategic coaching, real accountability, industry-leading training, and a high-integrity network of peers who think bigger and execute at a higher level.
For founders looking for ongoing structure, support, and transformation beyond a single talk or workshop, EPIC offers a long-term pathway to growth, clarity, and leadership.
EVENT PIONEERS IMPACT COALITION (EPIC)
The Event Pioneers Impact Coalition (EPIC) is Daniel’s national community and coaching platform for established event entrepreneurs who want to scale with integrity, impact, and collaboration. EPIC brings together owners and leaders of event businesses who are committed to building purposeful, profitable, and self-scaling companies while refusing to grow alone.
Members use the STAGES Framework to clarify their vision, elevate their brand and marketing, attract premium clients, and build the systems and teams that support a bigger, more meaningful life. The community provides strategic coaching, real accountability, industry-leading training, and a high-integrity network of peers who think bigger and execute at a higher level.
For founders looking for ongoing structure, support, and transformation beyond a single talk or workshop, EPIC offers a long-term pathway to growth, clarity, and leadership.
A Personal Touch
BEYOND THE STAGE, DANIEL IS:
EVERYTHING HE TEACHES IS ROOTED IN THE LIFE HE’S BUILDING WITH THE PEOPLE HE LOVES MOST.
PRAISE
DANIEL IS TRUSTED BY EVENT PROS, CREATORS, AND ENTREPRENEURS NATIONWIDE
LET’S CREATE SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY TOGETHER
Whether you’re planning a conference keynote, podcast interview, workshop, or private training, Daniel will bring clarity, energy, and real transformation to your audience.
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