The Live Event Accelerator Program
We're not just building your event. We're building your business.
LEAP is a year inside SAGE's playbook — helping speakers, authors, coaches and course creators leverage the power of a high-ticket offer and the live event platform to create a purpose-driven payday.
72
Events in the last 12 months
9,660
Attendees worldwide
$4,913,020
Earned from live events
What the LEAP community accomplished in just the last 12 months — whether their audience was 5, 50, or 500+.
The Focus
The 5 C's of your LEAP year
Only you can do the work — but you never do it alone. Everything in LEAP is built to move five needles.
01
Improve your
Clarity
Event debriefs and pre-briefs with Blue and Bari, so every decision about your event is made with a clear head.
02
Increase your
Courage
Event and Tech SOS calls for the moments that matter. Shifts happen — there is power in the pivot.
03
Strengthen your
Capabilities
Experivent Sprints and weekly open office hours build the event muscle by actually planning and running events.
04
Raise your
Commitment
A Member Hub, a partner program, and a community of LEAPers that keeps you moving all year.
05
Build your
Confidence
Studio, dashboard and platform support, so the tech never stops you in your tracks.
The Year
Inside your LEAP year
A steady cadence of working sessions, live answers and backstage access — designed so your first or next event actually happens.
Twelve Milestone Days
Every month we meet to work through the six core milestones of your event — and we cover each one twice, so whether you are a tortoise or a hare, you learn at your own pace.
Monthly Q&A Calls
Once a month, ask us anything — and learn from the collective, getting answers to the questions you did not know you needed to ask.
Experivent Sprints
Every 8 weeks, a member of the LEAP community leads the charge through the weekly checklist while planning their own event — and you pace alongside them, planning yours.
Weekly Open Office Hours
Hosted every Friday as a companion to the Experivent checklists, so you get live answers while you build out your event strategy.
Event & Tech SOS Calls
When you are facing an event SOS, you have a 30-minute call with Blue or Bari — and a Tech SOS with the Studio or Obvio team when the gear pushes back.
Community & Member Hub
Your everyday connection to Bari, Blue, Team SAGE — and each other. Every call is recorded and waiting for you in the Member Hub.
The Method
What right-fit clients need most, for funnel, enrollment and fulfillment events
Virtual or in-person — the throughline is the same.
Strategy First
Reverse engineering your purpose-driven payday: from building your Profit Pyramid, to designing your offer, to filling the room with a sales-is-service focus.
Tech and Touch
The logistics of marrying technology and touch points — from production design of in-person events to building your virtual studio, registration and dashboard.
Mindset & Messaging
Reaching your perfect-fit clients and showing up for them at the highest level, with a community that keeps you off the island of one.
Powered by SAGE
From the team that builds the room where your audience says yes.
LEAP is the coaching playbook of SAGE — Bari Baumgardner, Blue Melnick and the team producing high-ticket virtual and live events from SAGE Studios in Charleston, SC. The same discipline behind a thousand live stages, brought to yours.
- 350+ events produced
- 2.3M+ attendees served
- Producing since 1998
Ready to make the LEAP?
Join a community that lives, loves and leverages live events — and get to work on yours.
Join LEAPQuestions? Write to leap@poweredbysage.com