The Authority Engine
Become a globally recognized thought leader,
without becoming an influencer.
We define your positioning, capture your voice, build your platform around it, and manage your authority from there. For founders and practice owners doing $2M or more who are ready to make a bigger impact with what they’ve learned.
People we have worked with
Some of the people we’ve worked with.
Dr. Margie Warrell
Bestselling author and former Korn Ferry senior partner.
Michael Fabiano
World-renowned tenor at the Metropolitan Opera and founder of ArtSmart.
Dr. Randy Ross
Bestselling author and advisor to Fortune 500 enterprises.
Paul W. Swaney III
Operator and private equity firm founder.
Ronen Hoffman
Former ambassador and senior government official.
Dan Metcalfe
Hollywood actor, former pro footballer, fitness industry titan, and founder of Born SuperHuman.
Our clients are also physicians, attorneys and founders of consulting firms. People with substantial careers and different reasons for wanting their ideas to reach further.
What a wider reputation makes possible
Give your ideas a wider audience.
- Podcast
Andrew Huberman explains neuroscience through his podcast.
- Business
Codie Sanchez shares ideas about buying and owning businesses.
- Books
Richard Branson’s books give people a way to learn from his experience building companies.
Their public presence lets people get to know their ideas far beyond the people they could work with personally.
The working relationship
The team behind your next chapter.
We’re operators, and building and managing brands around other people’s expertise is our business.
As your plans develop, we help you work through how a book, a course or another idea fits with the reputation you’re building.
National bestseller
Dr. Margie Warrell
Michael Fabiano“Much more individualized and unique than the off-the-shelf drivel I’d experienced before.”
Hiring a comparable team full-time in the U.S. can cost over half a million dollars a year in salaries alone. You’d still have to recruit and manage them. With the Authority Engine, we lead the strategy and manage the work around you.
Illustrative estimate for six full-time U.S. roles, based on BLS May 2025 median annual wages. Salaries only.
Support for the opportunities that follow
A reputation can give you more ways to contribute.
Our clients have been invited to speak for organizations including Google, NASA and Morgan Stanley.
Our clients have been invited to speak at
For some of our clients, those engagements pay over thirty thousand dollars for a forty-five-minute talk.
Who this is for
For people ready to build this over time.
You already have a practice or business, experience to draw from and ideas you’d like to take further. You want a team you can trust with your reputation, and you’re prepared to participate in the conversations, filming and approvals that make the work yours.
Building that reputation is an ongoing commitment. You need to be willing to keep developing it six months from now, a year from now or two years from now.
If you’re expecting an instant result or a one-off appearance to make you a thought leader, we won’t be a fit. If you’re ready to build a body of work that can become part of your legacy, we’d like to hear what you have in mind.
Questions
Apply and book a call
Tell us what you want to do next.
We get hundreds of applications a month, and Adam and Chris read them to understand what each person wants to build.
Adam Rozen and Chris LuisFounders of 4:26
On your call with our team, we’ll talk about your goals, the experience and ideas we could build around, and how the relationship would fit with the work you already do. We’ll discuss whether working together makes sense.