Bailor

10/02/2026

Nearly 2,000 applicants. Approximately 50 speakers selected.

BAILOR President Sonia Simmons Robinson is among the 2.5% selected to speak at the 2027 Women Thrive Summit with Women Thrive Media.

At BAILOR, we believe people doing meaningful work in the world bring something invaluable back to the leaders and organizations they serve.

Sonia represents that beautifully.

She brings more than two decades of leadership and communications experience, the perspective of a former mid-market CEO, coaching expertise, and a deeply developed point of view on what leadership requires when growth and change disrupt the plan.

In March, she’ll bring that perspective to women around the world through her signature philosophy, "The Power of the Pause: Sometimes Stillness Is the Strategy."

Her message speaks to the moments every accomplished leader eventually encounters: when the plan changes, the next move isn’t obvious, and leadership requires the discernment to pause, reflect, and choose what comes next intentionally.

As Sonya Bailor shared in the announcement: “At BAILOR, impact comes first. We choose people who long to do meaningful work in the world and bring that experience back to the leaders we serve.”

That is Sonia.

A leader committed to making an impact. A coach who brings lived executive experience into the room. A voice with something meaningful to contribute to the larger conversation about leadership, growth, and change.

Seeing her carry that perspective to a global stage is a proud moment for our entire Bailor team.

Congratulations, Sonia. We cannot wait to see the impact you make at the 2027 Women Thrive Summit.

Read the full announcement → https://whnt.com/business/press-releases/cision/20261001CL62268/bailor-president-sonia-robinson-selected-as-international-speaker-at-2027-women-thrive-summit/

10/01/2026

Your next level may require a different version of the leader who built this one.

That is one of the harder truths in scaling.

The skills, instincts and habits that helped build a company are valuable. They can also become the ceiling when the business begins asking something different of its leaders and its people.

Our Founder and CEO, Sonya Bailor, writes about this directly in her Forbes Editor’s Choice article, "The One Thing Every Business Scaling Method Misses."

Her foundational belief: "You cannot scale a company without scaling the people."

Systems matter. Process matters. Infrastructure, technology, capital, sales and strategy matter.

We build those things every day.

But every one of them ultimately lands in the hands of a human being who has to make the decision, lead the team, own the responsibility and operate at the level the company is trying to reach.

That is why the BAILOR Method™ looks at growth through three connected dimensions:

• External Growth: What are we trying to achieve?
• Internal Scalability: What must become true — and what must stop being true — inside the organization to support it?
• The Human Element: Who do we need to become to operate successfully at that level?

Here’s our challenge for you today: Take the biggest growth goal currently sitting on your strategic plan and run it through all three.

Don’t stop when you can answer the first question. Pay attention to where the conversation gets harder. Because your next growth problem may not be solved by another action item.

Sonya’s Forbes Coaches Council article challenges leaders to ask a different question: "What version of me is required for the next level?"

We created this carousel as a working resource for leadership teams having that conversation.
Save it. Bring it into the room. Put a real growth goal through the triangle.

Then ask: "What does our next level require us to change?"

If you’d like to go deeper into the human side of scalability and how we use these questions at Bailor, DM us “HUMAN.”

And read Sonya’s full Forbes Councils Editor’s Choice article, The One Thing Every Business Scaling Method Misses:
➡️ https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2026/07/14/the-one-thing-every-business-scaling-method-misses/?utm_campaign=48569198-Social%20Member%20Articles%202026&utm_content=382653961&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-11074500

09/29/2026

Unconventional questions give hiring managers a different view of a candidate’s judgment, self-awareness and ability to adapt and move forward without all the answers.

09/03/2026

For those who have been following Veteran's Against Su***de since we stood at Ditto Landing and helped send the Freedom Fighter off in July, we finally have an update.

They made it home. 🇺🇸

When the crew left the dock on July 24, the mission was to keep the reality of veteran su***de in front of people and impossible to ignore. To remind veterans they are not alone, that asking for help matters, and that there can still be purpose, hope, and a better tomorrow.

Racing America’s Great Loop gave them a way to take that message across the country. And Bailor was incredibly proud to stand behind that mission as the Mission Accelerator Partner.

Then came the setbacks that changed the course of the journey.

An injury meant Dave had to continue solo for part of the trip. There was boat trouble. Bad weather.

So they adjusted. They kept moving.

They passed the Statue of Liberty, went through the Erie Canal, traveled beneath the St. Louis Arch, and eventually made their way back to where it started.

But the best part wasn’t the landmarks. It was the people.

People fed them. Drove them. Helped fix the boat. Met them at docks. Encouraged them. Veterans told them their stories. Strangers became part of the trip because the crew talked to people, told them why they were out there and, sometimes, admitted they needed help.

There is something powerful about that happening on a mission built around reminding veterans to do the same.

Talk to someone. Tell them when you are struggling. Ask for help. Let people show up for you.

Dave Skrzecz, founder of Veteran's Against Su***de, said it best: “Today sucks, but it doesn’t suck forever. Things get better. People will help you if you just talk to them.”

On August 23, after 29 days and 4,423 miles, they made it back to Ditto Landing. They stepped off the Freedom Fighter and into the arms of family and friends waiting for them.

Sonya Bailor was handed the Bailor flag that made the trip with the crew. She passed it to Blake, her husband and a veteran, to fold.

We were proud to put that flag on the boat. To support this mission, to welcome it home. Most of all, proud to serve as the Mission Accelerator Partner for a campaign that reached people, opened conversations, and gave veterans space to be heard.

Welcome home, Freedom Fighter. 🇺🇸

And to everyone who helped them keep moving, thank you.

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08/31/2026

Forbes selected Sonya Bailor’s article as one of three Forbes Coaches Council Editor’s Choice selections for August.

The recognition puts a larger spotlight on an idea that sits at the center of how we think about scalability at BAILOR: growth eventually asks something different of the people leading it.

Read the full article below for the story behind the recognition and why the human element matters so much in sustainable business growth.

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/forbes-selects-bailor-ceo-sonya-editors-choice-bailor-jqefe/?trackingId=%2FKcOQImav5h4M7H0Mw1MlQ%3D%3D

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08/27/2026

"You cannot scale a company without scaling the people." is a quote that our clients have heard on repeat. Now the world gets to hear it on a platform with the credibility and reach of Forbes.

Our CEO, Sonya Bailor, had her article 'The One Thing Every Business Scaling Method Misses' chosen as Editor's Choice by Forbes Coaches Council! We cannot be more proud, and "of course it was!" was the team's response! We are all excited to read the articles to be published yet, through her invitation and acceptance into the Forbes Councils.

As BAILOR always says,
"CHEERS to growth!"

🌟 Editor's Choice 🌟

"You cannot scale a company without scaling the people."

Read more from Sonya Bailor, Founder & CEO at BAILOR: https://hubs.li/Q04tRWjD0

08/26/2026

We once walked away from a $300 million company.

On paper, they were doing well. Then we got a few layers into our consultation process and found the real problem.

Every decision still ran through the CEO. Every purchase. Every signature. Every hire. His leadership team was full of experienced, talented people who had all been quietly trained to wait for his sign-off before they moved.

He had become the bottleneck.

The business was ready for the next level. The people had never been given the room to reach it first.

That is the idea at the center of an article our Founder & CEO, Sonya Bailor, published through the Forbes Coaches Council.

"You cannot scale a company without scaling the people. Why? Because people scale companies. Every new level you want the business to reach, the people must reach first."

Sit with the middle sentence for a second. People scale companies.

Systems support them. Process supports them. Technology and capital support them. The scaling itself is done by people, every time.

Which is why a $300 million company can sit stuck behind one person, and why we did not take that engagement. When the person at the top is unwilling to grow, no framework, system, or process improvement can break through a leader who refuses to let go.

We build systems, strategy, process, infrastructure, and cash flow discipline alongside our clients every single day, and we defend the value of all of it. We also scale the humans while we scale the company, because the ceiling of any business sits exactly where the growth of its people stops.

Last week, Forbes editors selected that article as one of only three Editors' Choice honorees for August, out of everything the entire council published. In Sonya's first year as a member of the council.

We are proud of you, and we are proud that this is the message Forbes decided to put in front of more leaders.

Congratulations again, Sonya, from all of . 🥂

And here is the question we keep sitting with after reading it. What level is your business reaching for right now... and have your people been given the chance to reach it first?

Read the full article: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2026/07/14/the-one-thing-every-business-scaling-method-misses/?utm_campaign=48569198-Social%20Member%20Articles%202026&utm_content=382653961&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-11074500

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