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Melissa Aarskaug

Helping high-achieving leaders redefine success through keynotes, workshops and books

 The Fields You Don't Need

Aug 12, 2026

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3 min read

The Fields You Don't Need

Customers rarely leave over one bad experience, they leave over a slow accumulation of small impositions nobody bothered to remove. The businesses that remove that friction keep the customers everyone else quietly loses.

Melissa Aarskaug
Melissa Aarskaug
The $15,000 Lesson On Risk

Aug 5, 2026

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3 min read

The $15,000 Lesson On Risk

A rock bottom price and none of your own money on the line look like genius right up until the market turns. After that, that’s usually the reason you can't walk away.

Melissa Aarskaug
Melissa Aarskaug
The $50,000 Slide Deck You Don't Need

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

The $50,000 Slide Deck You Don't Need

Leaders treating faster meeting notes and slicker decks as real AI strategy doesn't provide the edge they think it does. It's that thinking that's costing them the exact edge AI was supposed to give them in the first place.

Melissa Aarskaug
Melissa Aarskaug
The People You Almost Automated Away

Jul 22, 2026

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3 min read

The People You Almost Automated Away

AI transformation succeeds or fails on one decision most leaders never make deliberately: what happens to your people once you take the busy work off their plate?

Melissa Aarskaug
Melissa Aarskaug
When the Exit Isn't a Choice

Jul 15, 2026

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3 min read

When the Exit Isn't a Choice

Most business owners spend years building value and almost no time deciding who should get it once they leave. Matt Middendorp has watched that question get answered badly more times than he can count, usually because it never got asked at all.

Melissa Aarskaug
Melissa Aarskaug
When Ambition Outpaces Readiness

Jul 8, 2026

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2 min read

When Ambition Outpaces Readiness

Countless AI projects fail before they've even had a chance. Why? Leaders start without knowing what they're solving for, without a realistic scope, and without knowing if they're truly ready.

Melissa Aarskaug
Melissa Aarskaug
The investors you never knew you could be

Jul 1, 2026

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2 min read

The investors you never knew you could be

Marcia Dawood has spent 14 years watching high-earning leaders opt out of angel investing, not because they can't do it, but because the entry point isn't obvious. That gap is costing them, their families and their businesses, more than they realise.

Melissa Aarskaug
Melissa Aarskaug
The Wealth-Building Mistake Most Executives Make

May 27, 2026

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1 min read

The Wealth-Building Mistake Most Executives Make

Most leaders spend decades building companies but almost no time on capital strategy. This month's Executive Brief breaks down why that's a problem - and what to do about it.

Melissa Aarskaug
Melissa Aarskaug

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