Leadership Summit - SD Networking Events 2026
About this Event
🔥 SD Networking Events Presents: The Leadership Summit
Inspiring Leaders. Building Connections. Creating Impact.
Speaker Line-Up Coming Soon
Leadership is changing faster than ever.
The leaders who thrive over the next decade won’t simply be the smartest in the room—they’ll be the ones who can inspire teams, adapt to change, build meaningful relationships, embrace innovation, and create opportunities for others.
Join San Diego’s business community, entrepreneurs, executives, founders, creators, professionals, and emerging leaders for an unforgettable evening of learning, connection, and growth at the Leadership Summit.
Hosted by SD Networking Events, this summit brings together influential voices, experienced operators, visionary entrepreneurs, and community leaders to share practical insights and real-world experiences that help attendees elevate both professionally and personally.
This is not another conference where you sit quietly and leave with a notebook full of ideas you never use.
This is designed to be interactive, high-energy, relationship-driven, and action-oriented.
What You’ll Experience:
🎤 Powerful Leadership Talks
Hear from accomplished leaders and executives sharing lessons learned, growth strategies, leadership frameworks, and stories from the front lines.
🤝 High-Level Networking
Connect with entrepreneurs, founders, executives, investors, business owners, marketers, creators, and professionals from across San Diego.
🚀 Growth & Innovation Conversations
Learn how leadership is evolving across business, technology, AI, marketing, culture, and community.
🧠 Actionable Takeaways
Leave with practical tools you can implement immediately to improve communication, decision-making, influence, team performance, and business growth.
🌟 Community & Opportunity
Meet future collaborators, strategic partners, clients, mentors, and friends.
Topics May Include:
• Modern Leadership in an AI World
• Building High-Performance Teams
• Executive Presence & Influence
• Networking as a Leadership Skill
• Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Personal Brand & Authority
• Scaling Culture & Company Growth
• Decision-Making Under Pressure
• Communication That Drives Results
• Turning Vision Into Action
Who Should Attend:
✔ Business Owners
✔ Entrepreneurs & Founders
✔ Executives & Managers
✔ Startup Leaders
✔ Sales & Marketing Professionals
✔ Team Leaders
✔ Professionals Seeking Career Growth
✔ Community Builders
✔ Future Leaders & Emerging Talent
Whether you lead a company, a team, a movement—or simply want to lead yourself more effectively—this event was built for you.
Event Flow:
🕓 Networking & Connections
🎤 Featured Leadership Speakers
💡 Audience Engagement & Discussion
🤝 Open Networking + Relationship Building
Leadership isn’t a title.
It’s influence. It’s action. It’s consistency.
Come meet the people shaping the future of business and leave inspired to lead at a higher level.
Reserve your seat today before capacity fills.
Presented by SD Networking Events
www.sdnetworkingevents.com
James Hickey - SD Networking Events Founder
James Hickey is the Founder of SD Networking Events, launched in 2021 to connect business owners, entrepreneurs, and startups through impactful networking experiences across San Diego. With over 18 years of experience in digital marketing and business development, James has built one of San Diego’s fastest-growing business networking communities, hosting 36+ events annually including mixers, expos, showcases, and summit events. In 2008, James founded JMH Marketing Group, a digital marketing agency specializing in lead generation, Google Ads, video marketing, social media strategy, and local business growth. His passion is helping businesses expand their reach, build meaningful connections, and create long-term growth opportunities.
Jim Lutes
How your mind can hit the brakes on your leadership”
Say the name Jim Lutes and chances are a top performer in your company has attended one or more of his dynamic trainings over the last few years. Having taught his branded form of human performance since the early 1990s, Mr. Lutes has accelerated top level entrepreneurs throughout his career by conducting trainings on personal growth and subconscious programming into worldwide markets. During this time Jim took his skills regarding the human mind, and combining it with trainings on influence, persuasion and communication strategies he launched Lutes International in the early 1990s.
Based in San Diego, California Jim has taught seminars for, corporations, sales forces, individuals and athletes. Having appeared on television, radio and worldwide stages, Jim's style, knowledge and effectiveness provide profound results. “Jim Lutes possesses a unique ability to create performance change in an individual in a fraction of the time it takes his competitors”.
The core of humans decisions are based on the programs we acquire, reinforce and grow. Combining Jim's various trainings, individuals can reach new levels of achievement and fulfillment in all areas of life. The results are at times nothing short of astonishing.
“My goal is to take that embryonic greatness that exists inside every person in America, foster it, empower it and then hand them personal strategies based on solid principles that allow them to take that new attitude and apply it to creating a life masterpiece."
Alan Shimamoto
Topic: How to Scale Your Business
Alan and Louisa Shimamoto have built several businesses from scratch and scaled them so that the businesses could run without them. They have also coached hundreds of others to do the same.In this training, you will learn:1. Proven strategies2. Critical mistakes to avoid3. Differences between scaling and growing a business4. Key steps to take to ensure your successJoin them as they share how you can scale your business so that you can have more time freedom, income, and impact!
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 22.01 to USD 779.54
