"Make DRASTIC Moves. ACCELERATE Franchisee Success."
ACCELERATE DRASTIC
The Franchisee Success Summit
Buying a franchise gives you a brand and a business model. It does not remove the need to lead, show up locally, build relationships, follow up, and execute consistently.
Join Walter Bond and Toni Harris Taylor for a focused two-day virtual franchisee success summit designed to help franchise owners and leaders stop guessing, start executing, and win in their local markets.
Wednesday, January 13, 2027
Thursday, January 14, 2027
12:00–3:00 PM ET | 11:00 AM–2:00 PM CT |
10:00 AM–1:00 PM MT | 9:00 AM–12:00 PM PT
THE BIG IDEA
Walter Bond and Toni Harris Taylor are joining forces to create a high-impact virtual franchisee success experience designed specifically for active franchisees who want to make 2027 a breakthrough year.
The collaboration combines Walter’s ACCELERATE philosophy and champion-level performance expertise with Toni’s DRASTIC approach to franchise success, local-market growth, networking, community engagement, AI, and follow-up.
Make DRASTIC Moves. ACCELERATE Results.
Toni Harris Taylor
Toni helps franchisees turn that strategy into action through visibility, relationships, community connections, AI-supported marketing, and consistent follow-up.
Walter Bond
Walter helps franchisees develop the mindset, accountability, discipline, and strategy of champions.
Together, we help franchisees move from potential to performance to profit.
The Franchise Brand Is the Beginning,
Not the Finish Line
You invested in a proven brand because you wanted a stronger path to business ownership. Yet even with the systems, tools, and corporate marketing behind you, local growth still depends on what happens in your market every week.
Are you showing up in the right rooms
Do community leaders and referral partners know what you do?
Does your team follow up consistently?
Can you connect your daily activity to appointments, referrals, partnerships, and revenue?
What You Will Walk Away With
This is not a virtual event filled with motivation you forget the next day. You will leave with practical strategies you can put to work in your franchise immediately.
You will learn how to:
Think, plan, and perform with a champion's mindset
Identify the highest-value growth opportunities in your local market
Build a relationship map of people who can open doors to customers and partnerships
Increase your visibility through strategic networking and community engagement
Explain your value clearly so people understand why they should choose your business
Use AI to prepare for meetings, create outreach, strengthen content, and follow up faster
Turn inconsistent activity into repeatable weekly systems
Track the actions that lead to conversations, referrals, appointments, partnerships, and revenue
Create a focused 90-day franchisee growth plan
Two Powerful Frameworks. One Local-Market Growth Playbook.
Who Should Attend?
The primary audience is active franchisees who want to grow their businesses in 2027.
A secondary audience includes:
Multi-unit franchisees
Emerging franchisees
Franchisors
Franchise operations executives
Field support leaders
Franchise business coaches
Training and development leaders
2 Days. 1 Growth Playbook
Walter Bond Brings the ACCELERATE Framework.
Toni Harris Taylor Brings the DRASTIC Framework
Together, Walter and Toni combine champion-level performance with practical local-market execution.
Why Franchisees Need a New Success Playbook
Accelerate Drastic
Analyze and Strategize: How Champion Franchisees Think, Plan, and Perform
What Top-Performing Franchisees Do Differently
Show Up, Be Up, Follow Up to Blow Up: How Franchisees Win Their Local Market
Your Day-One Action Assignment
Organize and Prioritize: What Franchisees Must Stop Doing to Grow Faster
Real Franchisees, Real Growth: What Worked, What Failed, What Changed
Systemize Success: The 90-Day Franchisee Growth Plan
Your Next DRASTIC Move
Your Hosts
During The 2-Day Summit!
Toni Harris Taylor
The Networking Queen™ | Franchise Growth Strategist | Speaker
Toni Harris Taylor helps franchisees win in their local markets through networking, visibility, relationships, marketing, AI, and consistent follow-up. An award-winning franchisee, coach, speaker, and franchise expert, Toni is known for helping entrepreneurs Show Up! Be Up! Follow Up! to Blow Up!
Walter Bond
NBA Veteran | CPAE Hall of Fame Speaker | Business Performance Expert
Walter Bond helps franchisees and business leaders think and perform like champions. A former NBA player and bestselling author, Walter's ACCELERATE framework gives business owners a practical system to analyze, strategize, organize, prioritize, and systemize their path to growth.
Walter brings the performance playbook. Toni brings the DRASTIC action system. Together, they help franchisees stop guessing, start executing, and win locally.
Your Speakers
Coach John Hughes
Franchise Leadership
& Culture Expert
With more than 40 years of experience in teaching, coaching, and franchise leadership, John “Coach” Hughes specializes in developing leaders, building winning cultures, and helping teams perform at their best. A longtime Jersey Mike’s leader and leadership educator, Coach brings a people-first approach to franchise success: build great people, build great teams, and the results will follow.
Jim Mitte
Franchise Marketing
& Multi-Location Growth Expert
Jim Mitte is the founder of Turtlehut Internet Marketing and a franchise marketing expert focused on local visibility, lead generation, digital strategy, and scalable marketing systems. He helps franchise brands and multi-location businesses turn fragmented marketing efforts into structured systems that drive consistent local growth.
April Porter
Franchisee Performance
& Growth Strategist
April Porter is an attorney, award-winning entrepreneur, and former multi-unit franchisee who grew four locations before successfully exiting her franchise businesses. Today, she helps franchisees move from overwhelmed operator to confident CEO by strengthening strategy, leadership, profitability, systems, and scalable growth.
ACCELERATE DRASTIC brings together proven franchise, leadership, marketing, and performance expertise into one powerful two-day virtual experience designed to help you make 2027 your breakthrough year.
Your Summit Experience
Free Live Ticket
$0
Live virtual access to both summit days
Champion mindset and franchise growth training
Local franchise marketing and relationship-building strategies
Live chat, polls, and Q&A
Two-day action assignments
Do Not Leave Your Franchise Growth to Chance!!!
Success is not random. It is built through disciplined thinking, strategic relationships, visible action, consistent follow-up, and measurable accountability.
Give us two focused days. We will help you build a smarter plan for the next 90.
STILL NOT SURE?
Frequently Asked Questions
Question 1: Is the summit really free?
Yes. Your free ticket includes live virtual access to both days of ACCELERATE DRASTIC. If you want lifetime access to the recordings and the implementation resources, choose the $197 VIP All-Access Pass.
Question 2: Who should attend?
The summit is designed for active franchisees, multi-unit operators, franchisors, field support leaders, operations leaders, training leaders, and franchise development leaders who want stronger local-market execution and franchisee performance.
Question 3: Is this for people who are still looking for a franchise?
The content is built primarily for people who already own, operate, or support franchise locations. Prospective franchisees may attend, but the training will focus on operating and growing successfully at the local level.
Question 4: Where will the summit take place?
The entire summit is virtual. Registered attendees will receive instructions for accessing the live sessions before the event.
Question 5: Will recordings be available?
Recordings are included with the $147 VIP All-Access Pass. Free-ticket holders receive live access only.
Question 6: Can my franchise brand enroll several franchisees?
Yes. Franchisors and support leaders interested in bringing a group should select the franchisor inquiry option during registration. Custom franchisee cohort opportunities are available.
Question 7: What makes this different from another webinar?
ACCELERATE DRASTIC combines champion-level mindset and business discipline with local-market visibility, relationship building, AI-supported follow-up, accountability, and a practical 90-day action plan. The goal is implementation, not information overload.
Your Franchise Will Not Grow on Good Intentions Alone
It is time to get focused. It is time to become more visible. It is time to build stronger relationships, follow up consistently, and turn the right actions into measurable results.
Make DRASTIC moves. ACCELERATE franchisee success.
MAKE DRASTIC MOVES. ACCELERATE RESULTS.
Your franchise already has the opportunity.
Now it's time to maximize it.
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