Disrupt to Dominate:
How Leaders Can Create Problems to Unlock Breakthroughs and Build Legacies
Ted Santos is the ultimate “Disruptor of Limits”—a bold strategist who trains and develops CEOs and executives to stop solving problems and start creating them to fuel breakthroughs that redefine industries.
As the creator of the Disruptive Leadership Model, Ted flips conventional wisdom on its head, proving that chaos isn’t a threat—it’s the catalyst for transformation. With a track record of turning impossible visions into unstoppable growth, Ted challenges leaders to think bigger, act bolder, and turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Whether he’s helping businesses scale without breaking or reshaping corporate cultures to thrive under pressure, Ted is the go-to expert for leaders who refuse to settle for incremental growth and are ready to disrupt their way to dominance.
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Podcast & Interviews
Running With Broken Legs
Can Corporate America Transform US Culture?
The Read Money Coach Show: Ted Santos
Truth to Power | Asking What Does She Bring to the Table @MNNYouTube
Why Solving Problems Does Not Solve Problems
How Do Powerful Leaders Get the Most From Their People?
How To Break Through Limiting Beliefs
Why Do Leaders Fail?
Here's Why You Can't Develop the Mindset to Intentionally Create Breakthroughs
Interview with Ted Santos
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I specialize in leadership transformation, guiding executives to foster innovation, resilience, and growth through the Disruptive Leadership Model. I love to share practical tips for how to...
Disrupt to Dominate: Why Great Leaders Create Problems Instead of Solving Them: How intentionally creating problems fuels innovation, breakthroughs, and market domination.
The $300 Billion Problem: How Personal Struggles Sabotage Business Growth: The hidden ways divorce, stress, and personal challenges cost U.S. businesses over $300 billion annually—and how to fix it.
Scaling the Impossible: How to Manage Explosive Growth Without Breaking Your Business: Strategies to stabilize operations, align teams, and lead through chaos during rapid growth phases.
Breakthrough Thinking: Why Incremental Growth Is Killing Your Company: The critical difference between incremental improvements and disruptive breakthroughs—and why most leaders get it wrong.
Mastering Chaos: Building Teams That Thrive Under Pressure: How to develop resilient teams that embrace uncertainty, solve complex problems, and drive innovation under pressure.
Breaking Mental Barriers: Lessons From Navy SEALs for Leaders Under Pressure: How leaders can adopt elite mental resilience techniques to stay focused and perform under extreme pressure.
Leading Through the Storm: How to Navigate Crisis and Come Out Stronger: Practical strategies for overcoming adversity, managing crises, and emerging stronger from setbacks.
The CEO’s Guide to Creating Miracles: From Vision to Reality: Ted’s step-by-step process for turning big visions into tangible breakthroughs, even when it seems impossible.
a few featured articles
Disrupting the Status Quo
Overcoming struggles with Ted Santos, the CEO who helps CEOs
In the face of a failing project, business agenda or even of a fledging business itself, it may feel like you’d need a miracle before anything could improve. So, why not seek out a miracle maker?
Business Leader and Author Ted Santos Tells You ‘Here's Why You Can’t Find Love’
You’ve been going about relationships all wrong! At least according to Ted Santos, a successful New York City-based entrepreneur who for years has been “in the business of creating miracles.”
Ted Santos Helps CEOs to Drive Innovation and Disrupt the Marketplace
Ted Santos is a man very familiar with change, chaos, and instability. In fact, he resides in it. The entrepreneur, corporate advisor, and author was for years a world traveler
who was more likely to be found trekking through a Central American jungle than sitting at an office desk
areas of expertise
Disrupt to Dominate—Why Great Leaders Create Problems Instead of Solving Them
What if the secret to breakthrough success wasn’t solving problems—but creating them? Meet Ted Santos, the mastermind behind the Disruptive Leadership Model, who teaches CEOs and executives to engineer chaos that forces innovation, transformation, and market domination.
With a bold, counterintuitive approach, Ted flips leadership thinking on its head, proving that disruption isn’t the enemy—it’s the fuel for growth. From scaling companies without breaking them to transforming culture into an unstoppable force, Ted’s insights are the game-changing strategies your audience has been waiting for.
The $300 Billion Blind Spot—How Personal Failures Are Sabotaging Business Growth and the US Economy
Did you know divorce costs U.S. businesses over $300 billion every year? Ted Santos does—and he’s on a mission to fix the hidden leaks draining productivity, focus, and innovation from organizations.
As a business strategist and leadership disruptor, Ted exposes the personal struggles at the root of corporate dysfunction—and gives leaders the tools to rebuild relationships, align teams, and drive breakthrough results.
Whether it’s scaling during chaos or navigating personal crises that spill into work, Ted’s approach unlocks the mental resilience leaders need to win at business and life—making him the perfect guest to captivate your audience.
Breakthrough Thinking—Why Incremental Growth Is Killing Your Business
Forget playing it safe—Ted Santos is here to redefine success for business leaders who refuse to settle for mediocrity. As the architect of the Disruptive Leadership Model, Ted teaches executives to ditch incremental improvements and focus on game-changing breakthroughs that make competition irrelevant.
With strategies inspired by Navy SEAL training, Ted equips leaders to master chaos, embrace uncertainty, and engineer transformations so big, they feel impossible—until they happen. If your audience is ready to hear raw truths, bold ideas, and strategies that work, Ted is the guest they’ll never forget.
Real-World Breakthroughs
Turning Chaos into Multi-Million Dollar Success Stories
How a 3rd-Generation Food Company Added $15 Million in New Revenue by Thinking Bigger
Breaking Through Tradition to Unlock Growth
When two brothers took over their grandfather’s 90-year-old food business, they were thriving—but stuck. Focused solely on producing products under their own legacy brand, they couldn’t see a path to scale beyond their limits. That’s when they turned to Ted Santos.
Ted challenged their thinking, helping them reimagine their business model and create a new co-packing division—allowing them to make products for other brands while maximizing the equipment and resources they already had.
The Results?
Generated $15 million in revenue in year one, surpassing their $12 million goal.
Grew top-line revenue by 15% while maintaining strong profit margins.
Built a Navy SEAL-like team capable of producing multiple products quickly, operating with speed and precision.
Expanded to two new facilities, transforming a once-shuttered location into a profitable hub.
Why It Matters to Your Audience:
Ted’s insights didn’t just help this company grow—they helped it reinvent itself. This story will inspire entrepreneurs and business leaders to think bigger, embrace complexity, and discover hidden opportunities within their own businesses.
How a CEO Acquired 6 Companies in 1 Year—and Built a $100 Million Enterprise
Merging Businesses Without Losing Momentum
What does it take to scale fast without falling apart? That’s the question a former Lehman Brothers mergers & acquisitions expert faced when he set out to dominate a fragmented industry.
After acquiring three companies in three years, growth stalled—until he brought in Ted Santos. Ted helped the CEO accelerate acquisitions and integrate cultures, building a unified team ready to scale aggressively.
The Results?
Jumped from 3 acquisitions in 3 years to 6 acquisitions in 1 year.
Integrated a $6 million company into a $40 million division inside the enterprise.
Turned competing teams into a collaborative culture, where employees moved from skeptical to fully committed.
Implemented a post-merger integration strategy, solving the #1 reason mergers fail.
Coached and on-boarded top talent from acquisitions.
Why It Matters to Your Audience:
This story delivers insights every CEO, entrepreneur, and leader needs to hear about trust-building, cultural integration, and scaling growth without breaking teams. Ted’s methodology shows how to make bold moves—and back them up with systems that work.
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The $300 Billion Secret to Love, Leadership, and Lasting Success
Why Fixing Relationships is the Key to Thriving in Business
What if the struggles in your personal relationships were secretly sabotaging your business success—costing you focus, innovation, and profits? In his groundbreaking book, "Here’s Why You Can’t Find Love," Ted Santos uncovers the hidden connection between emotional intelligence, broken relationships, and the $300 billion annual loss businesses face due to divorce and personal chaos.
Blending bold insights on leadership with raw truths about human connection, Ted flips the script on how personal growth fuels professional breakthroughs. Perfect for high-achieving leaders and entrepreneurs, this book challenges readers to rethink relationships, break destructive patterns, and lead with clarity and purpose—both at work and at home.
Ted’s message is eye-opening, counterintuitive, and impossible to ignore—making him the must-have guest for podcasts that want to spark transformational conversations.
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Meet Ted Santos
The Leadership Disruptor Who Turns Chaos into Breakthroughs
Ted Santos is not your typical business strategist—he’s a leadership disruptor who challenges the status quo and trains and develops CEOs, executives, and entrepreneurs to create problems instead of solving them to fuel breakthrough growth. As the creator of the Disruptive Leadership Model, Ted equips leaders to master chaos, engineer transformation, and scale the impossible without breaking their businesses—or themselves.
With a background in turning struggling companies into market leaders, Ted’s unconventional strategies have helped businesses achieve what once seemed unimaginable, including doubling productivity in months and breaking through growth ceilings.
His expertise extends beyond boardrooms—Ted’s groundbreaking book, "Here’s Why You Can’t Find Love," reveals how personal struggles, like broken relationships, cost U.S. businesses over $300 billion annually and provides tools for leaders to fix the hidden leaks that sabotage success.
Ted doesn’t just talk about breakthroughs—he creates them. Whether it’s scaling during rapid growth, transforming culture, or leading through chaos, Ted brings game-changing insights that resonate deeply with high-achievers looking to think bigger, act bolder, and dominate their industries.
If your podcast audience craves bold ideas, counterintuitive strategies, and practical tools to fuel disruption and innovation, Ted Santos is the guest who will leave them empowered and ready to act.
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