​Everyone has access to the same AI tools, templates, and shortcuts. And the brands that built their entire strategy around them are already starting to look the same.

​The brands that will define the next era of business are making their moves right now. Not with better tools, but with a different kind of thinking. The leaders pulling ahead aren't doing more; they're doing it differently, building a foundation that no one can copy and paste.

​The Next Era: The Summit for Leaders Building in the Age of AI is a five-session virtual summit for founders, brand leaders, and team builders who understand that the real competitive advantage was never the tool. It was always the thinking behind it.

​Over five sessions, Ashley and Alexa bring together practitioners, strategists, and experts to tackle the questions every leader is sitting with right now:

1. ​How to build a brand that travels,

2. ​How to turn your community into a strategic asset,

3. ​How to use AI without losing what makes your work worth doing,

4. ​How to protect creativity inside systems that reward speed, and

5. ​How to build a team for a workforce that looks nothing like it did five years ago.

​About the organizers

​Alexa Phillips

​is an editorial operations strategist and writer who explores the intersection of media, technology, and culture to define what editorial leadership looks like in the next era of brand-building. Through her boutique consulting firm, she helps mid-market and growth-stage brands build the infrastructure for their content and communications programs, making them the go-to voice and authority in their space. She is also a freelance writer who explores how the media we consume and create is a key driver in building culture and identity. Alexa is also the founder and editor of Culture Slant, a media company that covers how media, technology, and culture collide and what those shifts mean for brands, creators, and people building influence in public. Subscribe to her newsletter here.

​Ashley Jefferson, aka Startup Baddie

​is the founder of Startup Baddie and creator of F3, and a strategic authority on customer intelligence and community-led growth for decision-makers who know their customers, community, and culture are the competitive advantage. She helps startups and established brands bring customers back into the center of their decision-making and use community as a growth flywheel across the business. Before Startup Baddie, Ashley led a product team at J.P. Morgan and has since advised founders across tech and consumer industries including luxury fashion, sustainable fashion, AI, and beyond, while also serving as a pitch advisor for NYU Berkeley Center of Entrepreneurship, Prospera’s APT Women program, and Hustle Fund. Her work is for the tastemakers, the visionaries, and the ones sitting on a once-in-a-lifetime idea, technology, or movement who need the clarity, strategy, and customer intelligence to build it in a way people are excited to be part of. Subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her on LinkedIn.