Turning Operators Into Strategic Leaders.

Turning Momentum Into Scalable Growth.

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  • The Paradoxes of Leading While Scaling: Why early-stage leadership habits break at $20M, $50M, and $100M—and how founders evolve to scale themselves alongside the company.

    Leadership Beyond the Title: Why executives must practice certain leadership philosophies to drive influence without the need for relying on their title —and the roadmap for doing it with intentionality.

  • How Companies Get Bought (Not Sold): What most executives miss when preparing for M&A—and how to design your product, team, data, and metrics so acquirers see undeniable value and strategic fit.

    Why Pivots Fail: Why partial pivots rarely work, and what it takes to realign go-to-market, product, and sales motions for a pivot that actually lands.

    Building Innovation Ecosystems: What thriving innovation ecosystems get right—and why most regions keep repeating the same avoidable mistakes.

Audience

Mona’s audience appreciates her no-BS honesty, pattern-matching from 50+ deals, and the way she makes complex business strategy feel navigable — even in chaos.

  • Founders developing their strategy and building productive teams

  • Startup and scaleup executives pivoting, scaling, and developing their exist strategies

  • Regional development teams with innovation hub mandates

  • Executive women navigating power and platform reinvention

Why Mona?

M&A Expert

Mona Sabet is a Silicon Valley strategist and dealmaker with over 20 years of experience scaling technology companies from early stage to $1B+ exits. As Chief Corporate Strategy Officer at UserTesting, she led the company through four acquisitions, $100M in funding, and a $1.3B IPO and sale. She has personally negotiated more than 50 tech acquisitions.

Media Highlights

Scale Up Executive

Today, she serves as SVP of Strategy, Projects, and Operations at GCG and advises high-growth startups and corporate teams on how to become acquirable, fundable, and strategically aligned. She’s also the co-author of Sail to Scale, a practical roadmap for founders navigating launch, pivot, scale, and exit.

Network Builder

Mona has built and led teams at Cadence, Coverity, and VulcanForms. She is the founder of HiPower, a nonprofit helping executive women build influence outside of their job titles.