evyAI Joe Apfelbaum, Speaker
EO EO member. Accelerator speaker. Fellow founder.
Speaking for EO chapters and EO Accelerator

The AI, LinkedIn and networking talks your members will still be using next quarter.

Joe Apfelbaum is the founder of evyAI, the CEO of Ajax Union, an Inc. 500 agency, and the author of High Energy Networking. He speaks to EO chapters and Accelerator cohorts on three things: artificial intelligence for startups, LinkedIn strategy, and business networking that closes seven-figure accounts.

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Joe Apfelbaum
Most recent EO stageEO Accelerator Execution Day, Pompano Beach, Florida. May 2026.
5 / 5
First perfect speaker score in a WPO chapter's history
10,000+
Business owners trained as a Certified Google Trainer
23,000+
Professionals using evyAI, the AI assistant for LinkedIn
5 books
The High Energy series, starting with High Energy Networking
Two ways to bring Joe in

Built for the EO calendar

Joe has sat on both sides of the room: on a chapter board choosing speakers, and in the Accelerator seats trying to get to a million. Each session is shaped for the format you actually run.

EO

Speaking for EO chapters

For Learning Chairs who need a session members talk about at the bar afterward. Practical, live, and demo-heavy: Joe builds the AI workflow or the LinkedIn post on screen, with your members' businesses as the examples.

  • Chapter learning events in person or on Zoom, 45 to 90 minutes.
  • Half-day workshops where every member leaves with their AI employee, their LinkedIn plan, or their networking system set up.
  • Retreats and Bridge events as a keynote, emcee or moderator.
  • Forum-friendly add-on: a 20-minute version members can bring back to their forum as a Deep Dive.
Learning eventsRetreatsVirtualEmceePanel moderator
EO

Speaking for EO Accelerator

For Accelerator program managers and Execution Day organizers. Accelerator founders are pre-million and time-poor, so Joe teaches the version that works with a team of three and a budget of zero: AI as your first hires, LinkedIn as your sales floor, networking as your growth channel.

  • Execution Days and Learning Days, sized to the Sales and Marketing quarter or run as a stand-alone session.
  • Working sessions, not lectures: founders open their laptops and leave with prompts, a posting plan, and a follow-up system.
  • Accountability built in: a 30-day scorecard the cohort reports on at the next meeting.
  • Joe's own story of taking Ajax Union past the million mark and onto the Inc. 500.
Execution DaySales and Marketing quarterCohort workshopVirtual
Three talks

What Joe speaks about

Each one runs as a 45-minute keynote, a 60 to 90 minute workshop, or a half day. All three include a live demo and a takeaway your members use the next morning.

AI
Talk 1

Artificial Intelligence for Startups

How a founder with a small team hires AI employees, gives them real work, and gets a week back every month. Joe builds the workflows live using the tools your members already pay for, plus evyAI, the assistant he built for LinkedIn.

Your members leave with

  • An AI employee manual: the five roles to hand to AI first (research, writing, prospect lists, follow-up, reporting) and the prompts for each.
  • A prompt-writing method that gets consistent output in their own voice, not generic AI copy.
  • A 30-day plan to put AI into sales and marketing without adding headcount.

Best for

  • Accelerator cohorts and chapters that want hands-on, not hype.
  • Founders who have "tried ChatGPT" and stalled.
  • Teams that need marketing output without a marketing department.
Keynote 45 minWorkshop 60 to 90 minHalf dayLive demo
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Talk 2

LinkedIn Strategy: Generate Revenue in 15 Minutes a Day

Joe has spent 16 years and more than 11,000 posts on LinkedIn, trains LinkedIn's own employees on the platform, and built evyAI on top of what works. This is the system: Post, Engage, Message, Connect, and the 1-5-10-20 daily routine that makes it stick.

Your members leave with

  • A profile fixed on the spot so it reads like a landing page for their ideal client.
  • The 1-5-10-20 routine: one post, five comments, ten messages, twenty connection requests, in 15 minutes.
  • Message templates that start conversations instead of pitching, and how to use AI to write them in their voice.

Best for

  • Any chapter where members sell B2B.
  • Accelerator founders who are the whole sales team.
  • Members who want to build a personal brand that brings in deals, not vanity metrics.
Keynote 45 minWorkshop 60 to 90 minHalf dayLive profile makeovers
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Talk 3

Business Networking to Close Seven-Figure Accounts

From the book High Energy Networking. Big accounts are not won on cold outreach. They are won through relationships that were built before the deal existed. Joe shows the system he used to land Ajax Union's largest clients and grow the agency onto the Inc. 500 list, and how EO members can run it inside and outside the chapter.

Your members leave with

  • The 10 Commandments of Networking, and the one most entrepreneurs break every week.
  • Greeting, Feeding, Meeting: how to move from a hello to a real conversation without ever feeling salesy.
  • A follow-up system for the 20 relationships that can each turn into a seven-figure account.
  • How to leave every conversation with the other person having more energy than they came in with.

Best for

  • Chapter meetings, retreats and Bridge events.
  • Founders selling high-ticket services, agencies, and B2B products.
  • Members who network a lot and close a little.
Keynote 45 minWorkshop 60 to 90 minHalf dayBook available for the room
Joe and EO

A member first, a speaker second

Joe is not a speaker who found EO on a prospect list. He has been in the rooms for more than a decade, on the board, in a forum, and on the Accelerator side. He knows what a Learning Chair is up against and what a founder in Accelerator actually needs to hear.

  • 2013EO Accelerator in New York. Joe hosted Accelerator sessions at the Ajax Union office in Brooklyn.
  • 2014EO New York board, Communications Chair.
  • 2016Founding member of EO Brooklyn and its Forum Chair.
  • 2026EO US East Bridge board member. Forum member of the Amazing Global Forum.
  • May 2026Presented at the EO Accelerator Execution Day in Pompano Beach, Florida.
EO
Recent EO stages. EO Accelerator Execution Day, South Florida, May 2026. A chapter LinkedIn training in July 2026, with the full replay at eoevent.com/linkedin so your Learning Chair can watch Joe in an EO room before booking.
Joe Apfelbaum on stage
What organizers say

Rooms that rate speakers

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My members rated Joe's presentation a 5 out of 5. This is the first time a speaker received a perfect score.

Diane McIlreeChapter Chair, Women Presidents Organization
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Joe presented brilliantly to my Vistage CEO Peer Advisory and Key Executive Groups. We all learned great ways to use LinkedIn more effectively. More than that, Joe showed us how to use AI tools to empower us and our associates in growing our businesses.

Jonas P. LittmanVistage Peer Advisory Chairman
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I've attended quite a few webinars and virtual trainings over the years, but I have yet to attend one where the presenter drove attendees' engagement to the level that Joe did. I am still marveling about it days later.

Mark CopelandPhoenix Defense
About Joe

Joe Apfelbaum

Joe Apfelbaum is the founder and CEO of evyAI, the AI assistant that helps sales teams and business owners write, comment and prospect on LinkedIn, and the CEO of Ajax Union, the B2B marketing agency he started in Brooklyn in 2008 and grew onto the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing companies.

A Certified Google Trainer who has trained more than 10,000 business owners, Joe speaks to EO, YPO, Vistage and YJP groups, trains LinkedIn's own employees on LinkedIn, and runs free office hours on Zoom every weekday at 12pm and 7pm ET. He is the author of five High Energy books and a single father of five.

HIGH ENERGY NETWORKING
The book: High Energy Networking

The 10 Commandments of Networking, the follow-up system, and the mindset that turns a room full of strangers into a pipeline. Copies can be arranged for your members ahead of the session.

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Included with every session

What your members take home

1

A free LinkedIn Footprint Audit

Every attendee gets a LinkedIn Health Score and a report of what a prospect sees when they look them up, at footprintaudit.com.

2

The prompts and templates

The exact AI prompts, LinkedIn message templates and follow-up scripts from the session, delivered as a QR code slide during the talk.

3

A standing invitation to office hours

Members can bring their questions to Joe's free live office hours any weekday at 12pm or 7pm ET at evyai.com/success.

Book Joe

Bring Joe to your chapter or your Accelerator cohort

Send the date, city, audience and format. Virtual sessions can be booked on short notice. In-person dates fill early, so reach out as soon as your learning calendar is set.

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For organizers

Booking
evyus.com/booking or Jen at scheduling@ajaxunion.com
Based in
Brooklyn, New York. Travels for EO events.
Formats
Keynote, workshop, half day, virtual, emcee, moderator
Lengths
20, 45 or 60 minutes, or a half-day workshop
AV
Lav or handheld mic, HDMI or screen share, reliable internet (the AI demo is live)
Intro kit
Bios, headshots and emcee scripts at evyus.com/networking