Millionaire Maker. Mentor's Mentor. Joel Bauer Live & In-Person · San Jose
2 Days of Training & Mentoring by Joel Bauer Will Change the Way You Sell, Speak, Negotiate & Get Paid. Guaranteed.
Watch: Joel Bauer — The Mentor’s Mentor
Price increases to $997 on April 13 · 60 seats total · No waitlist.
If you are walking out of rooms you should be winning — investor meetings, sales conversations, board presentations — this is written for you. If you are trying to start a business and can't get traction, or scaling one and hitting walls you shouldn't be hitting, this is written for you too.
Not because you lack knowledge. Because knowing your stuff and moving a room with it are two different skills. Only one of them closes. Only one of them gets the yes, the funding, the client, the deal.
Joel Bauer has spent 40 years teaching the second one. Over 6,000 speakers, marketers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders have been through his system. The people who trained the people who trained you.
Now he's in San Jose. 60 seats. April 25–26. This is the room.
The Market Has More Voices
Than Ever Before.
Fewer of Them Land.
The tools for reaching people have never been more accessible. And yet the ability to actually move people — to earn trust, hold attention, and close with conviction — remains as rare as it has always been. That gap is where this event lives.
Expertise doesn't close deals
You can be the most qualified person in the room and still lose the deal, the funding, the audience, the partnership. What you know matters far less than how you move people with what you know.
Presence is a learnable skill
The people who command rooms aren't born that way. They have a framework. They know the moves. Joel has spent four decades teaching exactly that framework to exactly the kind of people who are in this room.
The close is earned, not forced
Pressure tactics are a short game. The close that holds — the one that leads to referrals, to repeat business, to a reputation — is built on trust and sequenced with precision. That's what the 20-Move Money Matrix teaches.
Most people never get this room
This is 60 people, two days, San Jose. If you've been waiting for the right moment to close this gap — this is a specific and finite opportunity to do it.
Two Days. Five Permanent Edges.
Influence
How to move people — ethically, deliberately, and with precision. The kind of influence that holds up in high-stakes rooms: investor conversations, enterprise sales, board presentations, and one-on-one closes.
Persuasion
Joel's proprietary 20-Move Money Matrix — the system behind some of the world's most recognized closers. Applied to sales conversations, investor pitches, stage presentations, and one-on-one closes.
Authentic Speaking
How to stand in front of a room and command it. Not performance. Presence. The specific difference between someone who talks and someone who moves people to act.
Building What You Know
How to package expertise into an offer, position it in a crowded market, and build a revenue model that doesn't depend on chasing clients.
Closing
Not pressure. Not manipulation. The art of earning a yes from a buyer who trusts you — from stage, from Zoom, from a single conversation. The close that feels like a natural conclusion.
You'll Recognize Yourself
In One of These.
Startup Founders
You'll leave knowing how to move a room — an investor room, a partner room, a customer room. You'll have the 20-Move Money Matrix applied to the specific pitch you're currently losing. Conviction isn't a personality trait. It's a skill. You'll have it.
Sales & Marketing Professionals
You'll leave with a closing framework that works when scripts don't — because it's built on how buyers actually make decisions. You'll know how to be the human signal in a market full of automated noise.
Coaches & Consultants
You'll leave with a model for packaging what you know into an offer people can buy, a positioning frame that makes your expertise legible to the right buyer, and a closing approach that earns the yes without pressure.
Authors, Speakers & Executives
You'll leave knowing how to build a business around what you know — one where the stage is the top of a revenue model, not the whole thing. Joel has done this for decades. You'll get the architecture, not the inspiration.
Joel Bauer · The Mentor's Mentor
Joel Bauer
For over three decades, Joel Bauer has been the person that the world's most recognized closers, speakers, and marketers call when they need to get better. Not better in a workshop sense. Better in a way that shows up in the room, in the close, in the revenue.
Known as the Millionaire Maker and the Mentor's Mentor, Joel developed the 20-Move Money Matrix — a proprietary framework that has shaped the careers of over 6,000 speakers, marketers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders across four continents.
He doesn't work with many rooms. When he does, the people who are in them tend to look back at it as a clear before-and-after. This is one of those rooms.
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Apple · IBM · Disney · Motorola · Intel · Canon · Panasonic
What You're Committing To
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Early Registration
Register before April 12. Price jumps to $997 on April 13.
Two full days with Joel Bauer at the lowest available rate. This tier closes on April 12 and does not reopen at any price. The $900 difference is a function of when you decide — not what you receive.
Standard Registration
If you miss the early bird, this is your entry point — if seats remain.
Same two days. Same room. Same Joel Bauer. The difference is only when you decide. The room fills from the people who decide first. April 25 does not move.
Price Today: $97!
Frequently Asked Questions
You'll get the full location details via email after you register. The event is in San Jose, CA on April 25–26, 2026.
Registration opens at 8:00 AM both days. The event starts at 9:00 AM sharp — Joel does not delay. Plan for the event to run until 5:00 PM, but do not make hard plans around that end time. Joel will not cut the room short if there is more value to deliver. Plan to stay later both days.
Yes. There is plenty of free parking around the venue — provided you arrive early. If you arrive late, paid parking options are available nearby. We recommend arriving by 7:45 AM to secure a free spot and get settled before registration opens at 8:00 AM.
Do not book a return flight on Sunday April 26. The training can run late and you do not want to be watching the clock instead of being in the room. Book your return flight for Monday April 27 or later.
Lunch is on your own both days. The hotel and surrounding area have plenty of dining options within easy reach. Light refreshments will be available during the event. Full details will be sent to registered attendees prior to the event.
No. There is no virtual attendance option and no replay. The only way to access what happens in this room is to be in this room.
No. Recordings are not sold separately under any circumstances. We may or may not record the event — that decision has not been made. If we do record it, the recording will only be made available to attendees who were physically present in the room for both days. Registering does not entitle you to recordings. You have to be there. Both days. That is the only way to purchase the recording if one becomes available.
All sales are final. Given the limited capacity of 60 seats, we are unable to offer refunds. You may transfer your seat to another person by contacting us before April 18.
If the event is cancelled, all registered attendees will receive a full 100% refund immediately. If the event is postponed, your registration will automatically transfer to the new dates. If you are unable to attend the new dates, you will receive a full refund upon request.
Two full days of live training and mentoring with Joel Bauer, all event materials, and access to a curated room of high-caliber peers.
Yes. Joel is the sole faculty for this event and will be present and teaching for the full two days.
Yes. The frameworks Joel teaches apply to anyone who needs to move people — in a sales conversation, an investor meeting, a negotiation, or a business presentation. If you sell, speak, negotiate, or build — this room is for you.
Absolutely. In fact this may be the best time to be in this room. Most people start a business and then try to figure out how to sell, speak, and close. You'll walk in knowing the system before you launch. Every framework Joel teaches — how to position yourself, how to move a room, how to close — applies from day one of any business. You'll leave with answers to questions you didn't even know you had yet.
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